how to create a Group in sharepoint 2010?

Question

i want to create a SPGroup and give the permission to the current logged in user to that group programatically.Also the current logged in user should be added to that group programatically.How can this be done?Can somebody provide the code for the method?It will all be done on a button click.

Please suggest

thanks

Suu30  

Answer 1

Hello Suu30,

refer the below links

http://sharepoint.infoyen.com/2012/06/24/create-group-permission-and-assign-it-programmatically/

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/42044/create-new-sharepoint-group-programmatically

http://sharepointex.blogspot.in/2007/08/my-test-comment.html

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Answer 2

Hello,

I belive this post can help you

http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2010/09/03/programmatically-create-user-groups-sharepoint-2010/

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010customization/thread/d11f1488-15f9-4afd-9c07-04fa070daa10/

also to get the current user you can use 

SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser

Hope this helps,

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Answer 3

for creating group,giving permission and adding the current user I am using this code

       

using (SPSite siteColl = new SPSite(socialDataStatsSite))
                    {
                    SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;
                    SPUser spUser = siteColl.RootWeb.CurrentUser;
                    web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
                    web.SiteGroups.Add("NewBie", web.CurrentUser, web.CurrentUser, string.Empty);

                    SPGroup group = web.SiteGroups["GroupName"];
                    SPRoleDefinition roleDefinition = web.RoleDefinitions.GetByType(SPRoleType.Contributor);
                    SPRoleAssignment roleAssigment = new SPRoleAssignment(group);
                    roleAssigment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(roleDefinition);
                    web.RoleAssignments.Add(roleAssigment);
                    web.Update();

                  
                    group.AddUser(spUser);

                    web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;

group is being added but the current user is not getting added.and when i sign in as different user it s giving access denied.Where am i going wrong?Please suggest

thanks

Suu30

Answer 4

Hello,

Try wrapping your code in RunWithElevatedPrivileges method

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
     using (SPSite siteColl = new SPSite("http://spdev01/"))
            {
                SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web; ;
                SPUser spUser = siteColl.RootWeb.CurrentUser;
                web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
                web.SiteGroups.Add("NewBie3", web.CurrentUser, web.CurrentUser, string.Empty);

                SPGroup group = web.SiteGroups["NewBie3"];
                SPRoleDefinition roleDefinition = web.RoleDefinitions.GetByType(SPRoleType.Contributor);
                SPRoleAssignment roleAssigment = new SPRoleAssignment(group);
                roleAssigment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add(roleDefinition);
                web.RoleAssignments.Add(roleAssigment);
                web.Update();


                group.AddUser(spUser);

                web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
            }
});

I ran your code on my site and it worked fine, so im guessing it could be an issue with current users permmisions, wich should be taken care of by code above.

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Answer 5

thank u bgrgic,

I have used the above code also,but getting the same result.the users are not getting added.I am trying to add a user in the "Group member" permission having the contribute permission but again it is giving a access denied error. In my site the user name is shown as "System Account" and not my name.Is that a reason for the problem?

what kind of changes should be made in the current user permissions?please suggest

I have attached a snap shots for your reference.

thanks

Suu30

Answer 6

RunWithElevatedPrivileges

should take care of any permmision issues (because the code is then run under sharepoint sys account).

You can also try adding EnsureUser

SPUser spUser = web.EnsureUser(siteColl.RootWeb.CurrentUser.LoginName);

Also I'm not sure you should be using 

SiteGroups

you can try using Groups. You can read about the difference here:

http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/SharePoint-Groups-vs-SiteGroups--Mindfire-Solutions-955.php

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