getMyGroups() not working properly.

[KS86]

Hi all,

I am using getMyGroups() in my code to get all groups. It is returning one extra group. Why?

I know below thing can be achieved by other ways, but I want to use getMyGroups().

My code-

var groups = gs.getUser().getMyGroups();

var groupIds=JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(groups));

var gr=new GlideRecord('sys_user_group');

gr.addQuery('sys_id', 'IN', groupIds);

gr.query();

while(gr.next()){

    gs.info("Name "+gr.name)

}

Answer-

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@KS86 

this is not documented but members in past have reported the same OOTB behavior and hence we used that approach

this past post talks about the same

getMyGroups() function is returning any parent group of child group in bread crumb 

this KB talks about same when the same function is used in dynamic filter options

User is able to see a list of records from the groups that user is a part of and also the groups whi... 

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@KS86 

I believe I also shared a working solution using GlideRecord.

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[RaghavSh]

@KS86 this function is returning parent group as well.

There is another OOB SN function "getMyExplicitGroups()" , this will give you the output you are expecting.

[RaghavSh · Accepted solution]

@KS86 Below will return expected output:

gs.getUser().getMyExplicitGroups()

[KS86]

Hi @RaghavSh ,

Now It is giving me exact groups.

But when I try to use that in Gliderecord it is not giving me exact result. It is giving four sys_ids but when I try to iterate through that it is giving only 2 groups.
Script -

var groups=gs.getUser().getMyExplicitGroups();

gs.info(groups);

var gr = new GlideRecord("sys_user_group");

gr.addQuery("sys_id","IN", groups);

gr.query();

while (gr.next()) {

   gs.info(gr.name);

}
Output-

** Script: [22d52c269f221200d9011977677fcf97, 477a05d153013010b846ddeeff7b1225, 5ee74940b70022108d4406dd1e11a918, cfcbad03d711110050f5edcb9e61038f]
*** Script: App Engine Admins
*** Script: Conditional Script Writer