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Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Feb 08, 2017

"My Groups" list for SharePoint Homepage Web Part

So, we are about to do some major rollout of Groups to our company.  While there are a million "entry points" for Groups, we simply wanted a list of Groups that a member belongs to on our Intranet Ho...
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Brent Ellis's avatar
Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Feb 13, 2017
Thanks Bart! This is my quick and dirty attempt to solve an immediate need, thought I sanitized it enough before pasting but missed the domain :)

I'm hardly a powershell expert, but more than armed and dangerous, so I'm sure there are many more efficiencies to be had.
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Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Feb 21, 2017

Got my first end-user visual set up for including on our home page.  I'm using the Group title, with selectable icons underneath to each workload.  Have a quick filter text box to narrow down groups and a small pagination to save real estate.  Then a link at the bottom to go to our "Informational" page about Groups.

 

  • bart_vermeersch's avatar
    bart_vermeersch
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 23, 2017

    We've hit a road block woth this, I'm not sure why.

     

    The groups are visible in the generated list for a member of that group, but the search remains empty for that user unless we manually/explicitely give the member rights (which he already has through the group).

     

    When checking the privileges of a user on an item, it is given by the O365 group, but the item is only visible in the search until the privileges are given directly.

     

    It looks like the search is unable to resolve the group members when crawling. It is strange that this is working in your tenant.

    • Brent Ellis's avatar
      Brent Ellis
      Silver Contributor
      Feb 23, 2017

      Hmm, I opted to use api and script editor web part to create our web part

       

      Perhaps cfiessinger can flag someone down that knows how search indexing + Groups is working.  We havent started using Groups for permissions elsewhere yet, but are definitely planning to and if this is the case, that is a big issue.

       

       

      <SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>

$(document).ready(function () {

	$.ajax({
		url : "https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/groups/_api/web/lists/getByTitle('my')/Items?$OrderBy=Title",
		contentType : "application/json;odata=verbose",
		headers : { "accept" : "application/json;odata=verbose" },
		success : function onSuccess(data, request){
			if(data.d.results.length == 0){
				$("#listOfGroups").html("No Groups");
			} else {										
				for(i=0;i<data.d.results.length;i++){
					//console.log(data.d.results[i]);
					html = "<B>"+data.d.results[i].Title+"</B><BR>"
					if(data.d.results[i].Conversation){
						html += "<a style='font-size:16px;' title='Group Conversations' href='"+data.d.results[i].Conversation.Url+"' target='_blank'><i class='fa fa-comments-o' aria-hidden='true'></i></a> | ";
					}
					if(data.d.results[i].Calendar){
						html += "<a style='font-size:16px;' title='Group Calendar' href='"+data.d.results[i].Calendar.Url+"' target='_blank'><i class='fa fa-calendar' aria-hidden='true'></i></a> | ";
					}
					if(data.d.results[i].Files){
						html += "<a style='font-size:16px;' title='Group Files' href='"+data.d.results[i].Files.Url+"' target='_blank'><i class='fa fa-folder-open-o' aria-hidden='true'></i></a> | ";
					}
					if(data.d.results[i].Notebook){
						html += "<a style='font-size:16px;' title='Group Notebook' href='"+data.d.results[i].Notebook.Url+"' target='_blank'><i class='fa fa-book' aria-hidden='true'></i></a> | ";
					}
					if(data.d.results[i].Site){
						html += "<a style='font-size:16px;' title='Group SharePoint Site' href='"+data.d.results[i].Site.Url+"' target='_blank'><i class='fa fa-sitemap' aria-hidden='true'></i></a>";
					}
							
				}

				$("#listOfGroups").html(str);
						
			}
							
		},
		error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) { console.log(jqXHR); }
	});

});

</SCRIPT>

<div id="listOfGroups"></div>

      Note, we've got font-awesome embedded for the icons.

       

      • hgromek's avatar
        hgromek
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 03, 2018

        Hi Brent Ellis, 

         

        I am trying to recreate the end-user visual web part based on the script you provided. However, I am not getting anything populated (the API is set, I just can't get the records to display? The Str is not defined? Any insight on this? Any help is appreciated. 

  • darrellaas's avatar
    darrellaas
    MVP
    Feb 21, 2017

    That's impressive Brett. The in-built Group discovery experience has some weaknesses. Your web part will be very useful for an organizations that has has high adoption and utilization of their SPO Intranet. I encourage people to favourite the Groups they frequently work in. Then wherever Groups are listed, (OWA, OneDrive, SharePoint Home site, mobile apps) their frequent and favourite Groups are easy to find. But by using your web part, you have more control of the detail that's presented. It would be interested to see what you can bring through from the Microsoft Graph. You could list recent activity, recent conversations, next task due from Planner. A view like this to show your Group 'at-a-glance' would be very useful.

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