Get group id from group name

[zweibieren]

Suppose I know the name of a group (let's say it's "GroupA"). How can my plugin's javascript code get the corresponding group id.

I need the group id to check pb.data("user").groupids to see if the current user is in "GroupA".

Thanks, Fred Hansen

[Lynx]

Nov 17, 2023 8:48:35 GMT -8 zweibieren said:

Suppose I know the name of a group (let's say it's "GroupA"). How can my plugin's javascript code get the corresponding group id.

I need the group id to check pb.data("user").groupids to see if the current user is in "GroupA".

Thanks, Fred Hansen

If you already know the name of the group, you can get its ID from the address bar. If you're on as root admin, go to your Profile and click the Groups tab to see all of the groups. If you click on the one that has the name that you want, you'll get something like this in your address bar:

(your_forum_URL)/members?group=5&view=group

That 5 in group=5 is the ID number for that group. With that, you can get the ID's of the current user with pb.data('user').group_ids and compare it to what you're looking for. This returns an array of all the Group ID numbers the current user is in.

NOTE: I deliberately did not give you any code snippet, as it seems like you're trying to learn yourself. If you run into problems, though, I can try to guide you a bit more.

[zweibieren]

I like to believe code can do anything a human can. But nothing about groups is sent to the client side.

Of course I can hard code the group id; brittle that.

Or maybe I can compute some data in the template and have it sent to the client side.

[Chris]

pb.data("user") has the information you require in the group_ids (array of numeric group IDs) and groups (object with group_id/group_name pairs)

{
    "username": "horace",
    "id": 65613,
    "is_logged_in": 1,
    "group_ids": [3, 34, 52],
    "groups": {
        "3": "Moderator",
        "34": "ProBoards Coder",
        "52": "Internal Feedback Group"
    },
    "birthday": {},
    "is_invisible": 0,
    "posts": 8776,    
    "theme_id": 9,
    "default_post_mode": "bbcode",
    "url": "/user/65613"
}

The ID is the lookup key so if you have the group name instead of the group ID then you'll need to do something like Object.values(pb.data('user').groups).includes('Internal Feedback Group') to see if the user belongs to a group with that name

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Nov 17, 2023 22:17:39 GMT -8 Lynx said:

Nov 17, 2023 20:35:02 GMT -8 zweibieren said:

I like to believe code can do anything a human can. But nothing about groups is sent to the client side.

Of course I can hard code the group id; brittle that.

Or maybe I can compute some data in the template and have it sent to the client side.

Plugins do have a search option for Groups:

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