Change the SharePoint User Group Name Using JSOM

In this blog I would like to share the way to change the name of SharePoint user group using JavaScript object model.

Steps for Implementation:

• Get Current Context.
• Get App web URL and Host Web URL from Query string parameter.
• Calling check method in document ready.
• Get web from app context site.
• Get all site group from host web site.
• Get Group by group name
• Set the New Title
• Finally title will be updated with new name on success function

In your JavaScript file write below code,

// Js code Starts here
'use strict';
//Get Current Context
var context = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
//Declaring the variables
var hostWebURL, appWebURL;
// this code runs when the DOM is ready and creates a context object which is needed to use the SharePoint object model
$(document).ready(function()
{
    // Get App web URL and Host Web URL from Query string parameter
    hostWebURL = decodeURIComponent(manageQueryStringParameter('SPHostUrl'));
    appWebURL = decodeURIComponent(manageQueryStringParameter('SPAppWebUrl'));
    //Calling check method in document ready
    ChangeGroupName();
});
//Change the group name
function ChangeGroupName()
{
    var cWeb = appCtx.get_web();
    var collGroup = cWeb.get_siteGroups();
    var oGroup = collGroup.getByName("HFS Managers");
    oGroup.set_title("Test");
    oGroup.update();
    context.load(oGroup);
    context.executeQueryAsync(function()
    {
        alert("success");
    }, function(sender, args)
    {
        alert("Request failed to change the group name " + args.get_message());
    });
}
//method for read query string valuefunction manageQueryStringParameter(paramToRetrieve) {    var params = document.URL.split("?")[1].split("&");    var strParams = "";    for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i = i + 1) {        var singleParam = params[i].split("=");        if (singleParam[0] == paramToRetrieve) {            return singleParam[1];        }    }}

Summary

In this blog we have explored how to rename the SharePoint user group using JavaScript Object Model.