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Michael A
Michael A

Reputation: 9910

Cloning a sharepoint rolegroup

I'd like to write a C# application to clone a SharePoint MOSS2007 role group (and its permissions) in however don't have a starting point.

MOSS2007 seems quite under-documented (in terms of development) and despite googling the problem quite extensively still don't have any idea what to start trying. I was hoping somebody here had done something similar and/or knew the SharePoint library enough to provide a good reference point.

I sincerely apologise for the basic question and also not providing more information - if I had anything else I would!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 593

Answers (2)

Tjassens
Tjassens

Reputation: 922

When you want to edit, change or add groups remotely you can indeed use a webservice. The webservice you'll need it the usergroup.asmx. You can find the methods of this webservice by simply calling it in SharePoint.

So browse: http://MySharePointSite/_vti_bin/usergroup.asmx

This will give you a list of all the available methods of the service. Connecting to the webservice from an application can be done by:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms458094.aspx

and this tells you how to interact with the usergroup webservice:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms412944.aspx

Upvotes: 1

Tjassens
Tjassens

Reputation: 922

when 'cloning' a SharePoint security group its first of all not about the group itself but about the permissions.

These permissions are stored as roleassignments to a SPWeb object. First you must find the group that you want to clone by doing:

SPGroup group = spWeb.Groups["name group"];

Then you must use this retrieved group to get the roleassignments on the SPWeb object.

SPRoleAssignment ass = spWeb.RoleAssignments.GetAssignmentByPrincipal(group2);

Then you must simply create a new SPGroup and add the group to the roleassignment and the roleassignment to the web object:

spWeb.SiteGroups.Add(groupName, user, user, groupDescription);
SPGroup newGroup = spWeb.SiteGroups[groupName];
SPRoleAssignment roleAssignment = new SPRoleAssignment(newGroup);

//add role to web
spWeb.RoleAssignments.Add(roleAssignment);
spWeb.Update();

After this you should have a new group with the same permissions as the original group.

If you're not doing the above in a sharepoint feature or something you can do it from a console application. Just create a console application in VS and fill it with something like this:

using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Linq; 
using System.Text; 
using Microsoft.SharePoint;   
namespace ConsoleApplication 
{     
class Program     
{         
static void Main(string[] args)         
{             
    using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("http://yoururl"))            
    {                 
          using (SPWeb spWeb = spSite.RootWeb)   
          {                     
            //perform the code to clone the group here
          }          
    }                  
 }    
 } 
}

Upvotes: 4

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