userGroups

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Availability

This routine is available starting with katl-commons 1.0.
This routine is available for Jira server and cloud deployment options.

Syntax

userGroups(user)

Description

Returns the groups the selected user belongs to.

Parameters

Parameter name	Type	Required	Description
user	string	yes	Username or userkey of the selected user. On the server version, it searches by the user key first and if there is no result - by the user name as well. On the cloud version, the search is done by the user key only.

Return

string []

The returned array represents the names of the groups this user belongs to.

Example

Example 1

userGroups("username");

Result: The list of groups that the user with account username belongs to.

Example 2

userGroups(currentUser());

Result: The list of groups that the current user belongs to.

Notes

The look-up is first made after the userkey, then after the username.

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