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I have a Sharepoint farm with many SPGroups for employees and many other groups for managers.

Eg. EmployeesLocal, EmployeesInternational, ManagersTechnical, ManagersHR etc.

I want to check if a user belongs to an employees group but I don't want the overhead of checking against each group as this will be a maintenance headache. Is there a way to add a custom field or property to the SPGroup class and then set it to "Employees" for all the employee groups and similarly for managers.

Also, if there is a way to create a hierarchy of SPGroups then I could add a parent Employee group and other groups under it. But I believe this is not possible. I would appreciate if someone can confirm this.

How would one go about solving such a problem.

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Unfortunately, you can neither extend groups (SPGroup) nor create hierarchies of SharePoint groups. You can achieve something similar via a custom SharePoint list, adding your metadata as columns to the list, store the reference to the SharePoint group in a Person or Group field, and create hierarchies via a lookup field referencing other 'group' items from the same custom list.

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  • Hmm.. I would imagine SharePoint to have some way of doing this natively. But thats a good workaround for the moment. Thanks. Feb 24, 2015 at 10:08

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