Determine all groups for a defined user

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I am currently creating a java method(part of and XPages managed bean) to retrieve a list groups a user(not necessarly current user) is a member of.

Is there any easy method to retieve this information or am i going to have to loop through all the groups to check for the user and also check if those groups are sub groups of other groups?

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '12 at 20:30

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Answered this in a blog post here: http://ntf.gbs.com/nathan/escape.nsf/d6plinks/NTFN-8TMHRP

Simple version is that what you're looking for is...

lotus.notes.addins.DominoServer server = new lotus.notes.addins.DominoServer("YourCanonicalServerName");
Collection nameList = server.getNamesList("TheUserNameYou'reLookingFor");

That should be all you need.

answered Apr 23 '12 at 20:30

Nathan T. Freeman

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Mentioned on the blog, but just in case no one checks that. "lotus.notes.addins.*" is an undocumented API so there is no guarantee it will work in later releases (or even be available). So please use at your own risk. – Simon O'Doherty Apr 27 '12 at 08:23

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '13 at 07:36

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use this snippets:

XSPContext context = XSPContext.getXSPContext(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance());
DirectoryUser currentUser = context.getUser();
Vector<String> groups = new Vector(currentUser.getGroups());

answered Sep 24 '13 at 07:36

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '12 at 13:18

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You can retrieve this information from ($ServerAccess) view in names.nsf, which is categorized by user name.

answered Apr 04 '12 at 13:18

Egor Margineanu

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$ServerAccess doesn't show if a user is member of a group that is member of a group. So depending on requirements that can become tricky. So starting with $ServerAccess and work from there. Caveat groups that have circular references – stwissel Apr 04 '12 at 14:16

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 04 '12 at 13:31

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session.evaluate( "@UserNamesList" );

answered Apr 04 '12 at 13:31

Tommy Valand

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That will only work for the current user; so will not meet my requirements unless my understanding is incorrect. – JMCooper Apr 04 '12 at 13:39

Jasper Duizendstra · Answer 5 · 2012-04-05T07:15:45.257

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Not sure if you can (re)use the LotusScript here, but this article (IBM DeveloperWorks, look at the 4th paragraph) is a great start. It mentions the NotesGroupManager and NotesGroup classes. These classes could be used as a basis for rewriting the code for XPages. There seems to be no other "easy" way to find all the groups a user belongs to. The straight answer to the question seems to be NO.

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answered Apr 04 '12 at 19:26

Jasper Duizendstra

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 04 '12 at 21:43

Rather than looping through all the groups in all the directories on the server you might prefer to create a special view in each director organized by group members. That makes the finding of matches quite a lot faster.

The GroupManager tools mentioned by Jasper are also a good example of LotusScript code which accomplishes most of what you want. The objects in Java are the same, the syntax is just a lot more pesky.

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