get group name of currently logged in user

[GertW]

I have the following problem,

a operator user named Jan is logged in. I would like to use the teststand API to get the group of the user that is logged in. So for user Jan this would be the group operator.

I can't find the right method to get the group of the logged in user.

Is there anybody who has an idea?

Thanks

[GRLANDMC]

Hello GertW,

there is no direct support through the TestStand API that allows to access the group property of a user. But you can do one of the following:

1. Create a reference to the user object of the user group as described in the following KB:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/7E407974B953A33586256AD200616229

At least you need to know the name of the groups that are present in the system in order to check for the membership of a specific user.

2. Follow the steps described in the following thread:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=330&message.id=4677&requireLogin=False

This example evaluates the group membership through the priviledges of a user.

Currently there is no alternative, even in TestStand 4.0. The direct feature has been proposed by many customers, but not yet been implemented.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

C.L. - NI Germany

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

The type information  I believe is not available from the User information. The only way would be to use the privileges.

Regards

Ray Farmer

[ktietjen]

Basically you would need to get the list of groups and look through them for a matching user.

Here are some helpful hints

You can get the current user from Engine.CurrentUser.
You can get the list of groups by Engine.UsersFile.UserGroupList
Each array item in the list of groups is a group (in the form of a user object)
You can get the list of users from a group by it's User.Members property

[Taylored_Solution]

I was able to get the user group by interating through the different group and using the property object is equal.  I have a attached a screen shot of what I did in LV 6.1 and TS 2.0.

[Greil]

Hello, I had the same problem. Here is a smaller version to find the Group of the current User.

The VI get the members of a Group and match it with the Username.

Note :

If the User belongs to multiple Groups the the VI returns only the 1st Groupname

If the User belongs to no Group then the VI returns "unknown Group"

The VI is written with LabVIEW 2010 and TestStand 4.2.1

[BroxSoft]

This should help some people. Took two full days to figure out how to access the correct members...

TestStand Users and Groups C# API

http://www.broxsoft.com/portfolio/helpers/TestStandUsersGroupsAPI.htm

[Shako]

Hi

Anyone know how to get the Groups names using Labwindows/CVI?

Created this code but for some reason im not getting the GroupName from this function 

TS_PropertyGetValStringByOffset (groupList, &errorInfo, i, 0, GroupName);

//Example to Retreive Groups Names and filter via group names
TS_EngineGetUsersFile (engine, NULL,&UserFile);
TS_UsersFileGetUserGroupList (UserFile, &errorInfo, &groupList); 
TS_PropertyGetNumElements (groupList, &errorInfo, &numGroups);
for(int i=0; i<numGroups; i++)
{
    TS_PropertyGetPropertyObjectByOffset (groupList, &errorInfo, i, 0, &group);
    TS_PropertyGetValStringByOffset (groupList, &errorInfo, i, 0, GroupName); 
    if(!stricmp(GroupName,"Operator"))
    {
        TS_UserGetMembers ((TSObj_User)group, &errorInfo, &members);
    }
}

[JonP]

Here is a simple method that checks whether the user has a privilege that is owned by a group but not by any lower (less potent) group (this is C#):

if (user.HasPrivilege("Configure.GrantAll")) // only Administrators have this
    group = "Administrator";
else if (user.HasPrivilege("Develop.GrantAll")) // Technicians and Operators don't have this
    group = "Developer";
else if (user.HasPrivilege("Operate.GrantAll")) // Operators don't have this - surprisingly!
    group = "Technician";
else
    group = "Operator";

. 'user' is the User object obtained, for example, from Engine().UsersFile.UserList.GetPropertyObject(username, 0).

If a user is in multiple groups it returns the highest group.