Retrieve Group List

You can use this API request to retrieve a paged list of the groups that have been created on your AnswerHub site.

/services/v2/group.json

You can use the following parameters in your retrieve group list request:

Paging and Sorting: page, pageSize, sort
projection: include, exclude, includeOnly
Other options: wrap, v1

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Permissions & Notes:

  • You must have the Edit users and groups permission under Site Administration Roles in the Advanced Editor.

  • You can use the sort parameter to specify which of the sorting and ordering criteria you want used.

    • An invalid sorting name will cause the request to reset to the default criteria.
  • With the includeOnly parameter set to id and name (/services/v2/group.json?includeOnly=id,name) to the AnswerHub REST API.

  • We added this request in version 1.6.3.

Sample Request

A GET retrieve group list request sent to https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com using a human-readable Username/Password (answerhub/test123) would look like this:

curl 
-u answerhub:test123 
-H "Accept: application/json" 
-H "Content-type: application/json" 
-X GET "https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/services/v2/group.json"

Sample Responses

Successful Response

{
    "name": "",
    "sort": "",
    "page": 1,
    "pageSize": 10,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "listCount": 7,
    "totalCount": 7,
    "list": [
        {
            "id": 98,
            "type": "group",
            "creationDate": 1549297120000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "02/04/2019 04:18 PM",
            "modificationDate": 1549297120000,
            "name": "Marketing",
            "description": "Marketing Dept."
        },
        {
            "id": 95,
            "type": "group",
            "creationDate": 1547821117000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "01/18/2019 02:18 PM",
            "modificationDate": 1548971848000,
            "name": "Test Group",
            "description": "Standard Users"
        },
        {
            "id": 6,
            "type": "group",
            "creationDate": 1542778947000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "11/21/2018 05:42 AM",
            "modificationDate": 1547066174000,
            "name": "Network Administrators"
        },
        {
            "id": 5,
            "type": "group",
            "creationDate": 1542778947000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "11/21/2018 05:42 AM",
            "modificationDate": 1547066163000,
            "name": "Super Users"
        },
        {
            "id": 4,
            "type": "group",
            "creationDate": 1542778947000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "11/21/2018 05:42 AM",
            "modificationDate": 1542778947000,
            "name": "Moderators"
        },
        {
            "id": 3,
            "type": "group",
            "creationDate": 1542778947000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "11/21/2018 05:42 AM",
            "modificationDate": 1547066915000,
            "name": "Users"
        },
        {
            "id": 1,
            "type": "group",
            "creationDate": 1542778947000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "11/21/2018 05:42 AM",
            "modificationDate": 1542778947000,
            "name": "Anonymous"
        }
    ]
}

Error Response

{
    "errors": {
        "message": "You don't have permission to do this action.<br>Please login as another user"
    }
}
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