Create a Sharepoint Group and add a PermissionLevel to that new Sharepoint Group

In a previous blogpost you saw how to break the inheritance of a site. Well by completing the request
of my customer, I wrote some code for also creating a own Sharepoint Group and give it 
a specific permission level. 

Enjoy my next custom code for creating a group and adding a permission level to it. 

  

      
 

 

function addGroup( )
{
   var groupsname = "FILL IN HERE THE NAME OF YOUR SHAREPOINT GROUP";
   var groupsOwner = "DOMAIN/USERID";
   var groupsDesc = "FILL IN HERE THE DESCRIPTION FOR YOUR SHAREPOINT GROUP"; 
   var soapEnv ="";
   soapEnv =            '';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + '';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + '';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + '';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + ''+ groupsname + '';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + '' + groupsOwner + '';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + 'user';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + '' + groupsOwner + '';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + '' + groupsDesc + '';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + '  ';
   soapEnv = soapEnv  + '';
 
  $.ajax({
        url: "URL OF YOUR SITE BY STARTING HTTP /_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx",
        type: "POST",
 async : false,
        dataType: "xml",
        beforeSend: function(xhr) {
           xhr.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction",
               "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/AddGroup");
           },
        data: soapEnv,
        error: processMyError,
        complete: processResultAddGroep,
        contentType: "text/xml; charset=\"utf-8\""
  }); 

}


function processMyError(xhr, error)
{
  alert(xhr);
  alert("dd "+error);
}


function processResultAddGroep (xData, status)
{ 
// adding the Permissionlevel to your group. If you don't do this, the Sharepoint Group will be created, 
// but will not be visible in the list of Groups. 
  callAddRole();
}


function callAddRole ()
{
  var soapEnv ="";
  var groupsName = "FILL IN HERE THE NAME OF YOUR SHAREPOINT GROUP";
  var roleName = "FILL IN HERE THE NAME OF THE PERMISSION LEVEL, EX Contribute";

  soapEnv =            '';
  soapEnv = soapEnv  + '';
  soapEnv = soapEnv  + '';
  soapEnv = soapEnv  + '';
  soapEnv = soapEnv  + '' + groupsName  + '';
  soapEnv = soapEnv  + '' + roleName +  '';
  soapEnv = soapEnv  + '  ';
  soapEnv = soapEnv  + '';
  $.ajax({
         url: "FILL IN HERE THE URL OF YOUR SITE /_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx",
         type: "POST",
         async: false, 
         dataType: "xml",
         beforeSend: function(xhr) {
                          xhr.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction",
                          "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/AddGroupToRole");
                     },
         data: soapEnv,
         error: processMyError,
         complete: processResultAddRole,
         contentType: "text/xml; charset=\"utf-8\""
  });

}

function processResultAddRole(xData, status)
{ 
  alert("status: " + status);
  $('#error').val(status);
  alert("response: "+ xData.responseText);
  $('#errormessage').val(xData.responseText);

} 

Get User Roles, Security groups on Client site

Last week I figgered out how to know in which security group the logged-on user has access to 
in order to show or hide some fields or ribbon items. 
For example to prevent to show All Site Contents in the action menu.

Below some code that does the work for you... have fun with it ;)
 

<script src="/scripts/jquery-1.7.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/scripts/jquery.SPServices-0.7.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

 getCurrentUserRole();
 function getCurrentUserRole() {
  $().SPServices({
   operation: "GetGroupCollectionFromUser",
   userLoginName: $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser(),
   async: false,
   completefunc: function (xData, Status) {

    if( Status == "success") {
     //alert(xData.responseText);
     $(xData.responseXML).find("Group").each(function () {
      if ($(this).attr("Name") == "DevSite Owners")
      {
       alert("write access");
      }
      else
      {
       // wrong access hide some stuff... for example the Site Action link.
       $("#siteactiontd").hide();
       // hide the global navigation folder
       $("#GlobalBreadCrumbNavPopout-anchor").hide();
      }//alert($(this).attr("Name"));
     });
    }
   }
  });
 }
</script>