How to check whether a SharePoint user is in a particular group

22/022010

Here’s a quick function I wrote to check whether a user is a member of a particular SharePoint group:

private bool IsMemberOf(string groupName)
{
    SPUser user = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser;

    try
    {
        if (user.Groups[groupName] != null)
            return true;
        else
            return false;
    }
    catch
    {
        return false;
    }
}

The try-catch is required as – somewhat counter-intuitively – SharePoint seems to throw a “Group not found” error if the user is not a member of the group.

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    One comment on “How to check whether a SharePoint user is in a particular group”

    1. Bilel EL OMRANI says:
      October 4, 2012 at 9:24 am

      I found that the curretnUser object does not contain a group, so I think that we should do it with different way.

      private bool IsMemberOf(string groupName)
      {
      SPUser user = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser;
      SPGroup group = SPContext.Current.Web.Groups[groupName];

      return group.Users.GetCollection(new string[] { user.LoginName }).Count > 0;

      }

      Can you Validate this code ?
      Another question, is always currentuser objec have not a groups collection when we get it from the current Context. ?

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