Comments on: Simplified People and Groups pages in SharePoint

By: Dan Blaker

Dan Blaker — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:48:40 +0000

This is fantastic, Andy. I’m all in favor of simplifying the SharePoint UI. Can you give a quick hint as to how you did this? I’m about to embark on a similar task, and I’m curious how far I’d be able to get without cracking open Visual Studio.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:18:14 +0000

Hmm. Not sure that you can do that through the user interface, out of the box, but the SPUser.Groups property does let you get this information through the object model. You could write your own control for it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd586389(office.11).aspx

Or, according to this link, maybe SPUser.Groups isn’t the best idea:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/1c623803-7b46-4528-8526-6ae97ada0067

By: phil

phil — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:37:26 +0000

Is it possible to view a list of groups that a person is a member of? For example, can SharePoint User C get a list of groups he is a member of?

Thank you, nice job.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:46:05 +0000

Sure. I’ll try and knock up a blog post about it over the weekend. And yup, I’m pretty happy with it too.

Turns out I’m not the first person to consider how to simplify the permissions stuff: Ton Stegeman has an couple pf interesting posts, but providing a different sort of solution.

http://www.tonstegeman.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=100
http://www.tonstegeman.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=105

By: Tom Resing

Tom Resing — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:40:48 +0000

Andy,
Great concept. I like the screenshots with South Park figures. Can you speak more about how you did it? I like the end result, but I’m too lazy to try to figure out where you are making the changes.
Thanks, Tom