Looking to retrieve user's groups in SharePoint

Question

I am running SharePoint Foundation 2010. I have a claims based site setup to use a trusted token provider. I am passing it a set of claims that determine the user's group. They look similar to this: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/Group. On my SharePoint end I have created some SharePoint groups and users to these SharePoint groups through the claims groups. The permissions are working great and I can manipulate them however.

The issue is I would like to get these users' SharePoint groups from code (preferably jQuery) I have attempted to use the SPServices but haven't had much luck. For some reason I can only obtain the user's group if they have been directly added (not added through their group) I followed this tutorial http://azzu-sheikh.blogspot.com/2013/05/jquery-spservices-to-get-current-user.html and it works well if the user has been directly added.

Anybody have any ideas?

Answer 1

What is a "claim group" ?
With SharepointPlus and the isMember function I check if the user is a direct member of the Sharepoint group, or if he's part of an active directory group that is itself member of the Sharepoint group.

For example if I'm part of [email protected] and if I add [email protected] to my "Sharepoint Group", then the isMember function should return true with $SP().isMember({user:"john_doe", group:"Sharepoint Group"}, function(isMember) { })

This function is able to doing that based on the distributionLists function that will find the distribution lists (that I've called "active directory group" above) for the user.

I'm note sure it's what you're looking for ?!