Check If Current User Is Present In A Specific Group Or Not, Using SPServices

In this blog, we will see how to check if a current user is present in a specific group or not using SPServices. Recently I faced one situation in that I need to show li element for some specific group of users.

In this blog, we will see how to check if the current user is present in specific group or not, using SPServices.

Recently, I faced one situation where I needed to show li element for some specific group of users. For that, we have the below HTML - UL LI structure and from that, we need to show the "Create" link only for admin users (Group Name: Category Owner).

<div>
    <ul>
        <li id=”Category1”>Category1</li>
        <li id=”Category2”>Category1</li>
        <li id=”Category3”>Category1</li>
        <li id=”Category4”>Category1</li>
        <li id=”Category5”>Category1</li>
        <li id=”Category6”>Category1</li>
        <li id=”Category7”>Category1</li>
        <li id=”create”>Create Category</li>
    </ul>
</div>

The above structure is being created on the landing page of my site. Apart from that, I don’t want to show "Create Category" button to all the users. I have created one SharePoint group called “Category Owners” and added users into it.

In document.ready function, I have added the below code to load SPServices.

<script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        insureSPServices(InitializePage);
    });
    insureSPServices
    function is used to make sure SP Services is loaded

    function insureSPServices(callbackFunction) {
        if ($().SPServices == null) {
            jQuery.getScript("/_layouts/15/Project /Scripts/jquery.SPServices-0.7.2.js", callbackFunction);
        } else {
            callbackFunction.call(null, "Already Loaded");
        }
    }

    function InitializePage(data, textStatus) {
        isGroupMember("Category Owners ", function(result) {
            if (result) {
                // Code for when current user is in the group
                document.getElementById("create").style.display = "block";
            }
        });
    }

    function isGroupMember(groupName, callback) {
        $().SPServices({
            operation: "GetGroupCollectionFromUser",
            userLoginName: $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser(),
            async: false,
            completefunc: function(xData, Status) {
                callback($(xData.responseXML).find("Group[Name='" + groupName + "']").length == 1);
            }
        });
    };
</script>