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Web Service/CMIS to get members of a group

paulf — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:06:35 GMT

Hi all,I have spent countless hours trying desperately to figure out how to list our all of the users within a group in Alfresco. I am trying to integrate our Alfresco environment into a new website I am building. I need to use web services of some description to do this. I am hoping someone may be

Re: Web Service/CMIS to get members of a group

rjohnson — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:32:11 GMT

There is a standard REST API that you can call.

{alfresco-url}/api/groups/{Group-short-Name}/children?authorityType=Person

Re: Web Service/CMIS to get members of a group

mrogers — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:50:06 GMT

Don't think you can do it directly via CMIS. (You may be able to do a query of the authorities via CMIS 1.1 though. That may be possible. )

But there are web scripts available in the alfresco public API to CRUD groups as rjohnson points out.

Re: Web Service/CMIS to get members of a group

paulf — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:23:54 GMT

Hi guys,

Thanks so much for you help. I really appreciate it.

Just one follow up question if I may.

Although I didn't strictly need to, I went down the path of creating my own web script. Sort of a training process. I would like to confirm whether the output I am seeing is correct.

The web-script simply reads the group name passed in within the URL. The JS file then calls the getMembers() method (obviously in order to get the members of the group). It then adds the resulting array to the model as 'personnames'.

I have a JSON output file which <lists> through the generated model and writes the name of the group out. It does this using "${person.name}".

My problem is that the output - the 'username' - looks like a GUID e.g.

person: [
{
name: "2108408d-6c5f-40ef-b581-2d12ceedbdf7"
},
{
name: "fb159b54-1c45-42a5-9837-76a480769d8d"
}
]

What is this ID? More importantly, might you know how I can get the actual user name rather than this, what I assume is, a node reference?

Hope you can help

Re: Web Service/CMIS to get members of a group

mrogers — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:00:44 GMT

could you attach your java script and template file please.