Query the Security Groups for an Application

Hi Chris.Gillespie  AFAIK look like you are on right track. Now the steps would you need to filter out your data using some other functions like find() and pass your app prefix and filter the groups may be 

What do you try to achieve?

I go a different route. Each group has an "All Groups" group, holding all the groups of an app. Then, I could create a new group with a membership rule to add all these groups by name.

I usually end up exposing the Groups via an API and creating a Service Backed Record Type that consumes the API. Much easier to query then. I think I'll write up a small blog post on this.

 I am creating an interface to add users so that I don't have to do that (there is just me here).  Then the office administrators can add users without calling me.  I want to be able to have them select the type of user (security group) the use goes into.

I could not find the "All Groups" group.  So I made one and put in just the Groups I wanted the User to be able to select.  I use the function groupMembers() to pull the groups.

local!groups: a!groupMembers(
   group: cons!PMSO_AllGroups,
   direct: true,
   memberType: "GROUP",
   pagingInfo: a!pagingInfo(
     startIndex: 1,
     batchSize: 100
   )
 ).data,

This works to a point.  I am getting all the groups that I want the user to select from into a local variable that is a list of groups.  This is what I get in the Local Variable.

The next step is to get it to work in a dropdownField().  This is the the JSON for that.

 a!dropdownField(
                  choiceLabels: local!groups,
                  choiceValues: local!groups,
                  label: "Security Group",
                  labelPosition: "ABOVE",
                  placeholder: "--- Select a Value ---",
                  saveInto: {},
                  searchDisplay: "AUTO",
                  validations: {}
                )

This is what I get in the dropdown.

How do I get the name?  It seems like I need to convert the List of Groups to List of Text??

Use another local variable, populated using a foreach() and the group() function to get the names.

I used the getgroupnames() function.  IT WORKS!!!  Thanks again Stefan!!!

local!groupNames: a!forEach(
   items: local!groups,
   expression: getgroupnames(fv!item)
   ),

You are welcome :-)

Nothing wrong with getgroupnames(), but it comes from a plugin. If you want to minimize plugin usage, the built-in function group() would work just as well for your use case.

Apologies in advance for bumping this thread, finally got around to writing up a blog post on how to query groups using Record Types for those who are interested: https://blog.appiandevs.io/003-a-better-way-to-work-with-groups-in-appian-part-1/ 

a!localVariables(
  local!groups: a!groupMembers(
    group: cons!GT_GRP_USERS,
    memberType: "GROUP",
    direct: true,
    pagingInfo: a!pagingInfo(1, 10)
  ).data,
  local!groupNames: a!forEach(
    items: local!groups,
    expression: group(fv!item, "groupName")
  ),
  local!selected,
  {
    a!dropdownField(
      choiceLabels: local!groupNames,
      choiceValues: local!groupNames,
      value: local!selected,
      saveInto: local!selected,
      placeholder: "-- Select a Group --"
    )
  }
)