Check an user belongs to a AD group inside SharePoint Group using SPServices JQuery

Question

I want to check the current user exisit in a AD group inside the SharePoint Group using SPServices JQuery. I used the below code snippet but not successed. Any suggestions?

$().SPServices({
        operation: "GetGroupCollectionFromUser",
        userLoginName: $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser(),
        async: false,
        completefunc: function (xData, Status) {

            if ($(xData.responseXML).find("Group[Name='SP Group Name']").length == 1) 
            {

             }
            else 
            {

            }
        }

    });

Answer 1

Sorry I wasn't reading your question clearly. The above script works if the user is explictly defined. However, there is no method in SPServices that expands group membership based on AD groups. You'll likely need server side code for that.

Answer 2

There actually is a way!

Create a group in Sharepoint and add the AD group to the Sharepoint group.

Then you can use spservices to test for membership in the Sharepoint group.

I've been doing this and it works just right! My code for this is essentially the same as yours:

//return true if current user belongs to Sharepoint Group
function isMemberofSharepointGroup(whatgroup){
    var ismember;
   $().SPServices({
     operation: "GetGroupCollectionFromUser",
     userLoginName: $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser(),
     async: false,
     completefunc: function(xData, Status) {
        //var $groups = $(xData.responseXML).find("Group[Name^='" + whatgroup + "']");   
        if($(xData.responseXML).find("Group[Name='" + whatgroup + "']").length == 1){
            ismember = true;
        }else{
            ismember = false;
        }
      }
   });
    return ismember;
}