Operations with a Specific Group of a User

This resource lets you work with a specific group where a user belongs.

Resource	<Hub Service URL>/api/rest/users/{userID}/groups/{groupID} For details and examples of Hub Service URLs, see Hub REST API URL.
Returned entity	UserGroup. For the description of the entity attributes, see Group Attributes.
Supported methods	`GET`: Read a Specific Group of a User. `DELETE`: Remove a Specific Group from Groups of a User.

Group Attributes

Represents a group in Hub and YouTrack.

Attributes

This table describes attributes of the UserGroup entity.

To receive an attribute in the response from the server, specify it explicitly in the fields request parameter.
To update an attribute, provide it in the body of a POST request.

Field	Type	Description
id	String	The unique identifier of the group. `Read-only`.
aliases	Set.<alias>	The set of IDs of user groups that have been merged into this group.
allUsers	Boolean	`true` if this is the All Users group. This is a special unique group that always includes all user accounts in the system.
autoJoin	Boolean	Determines whether new users are added to this group automatically.
autoJoinDomain	String	Stores an optional email domain used for auto-joining users to this group. If the user's email belongs to this domain, they are added to this group automatically.
description	String	The description of the group.
iconUrl	String	The URL of the icon of the group.
name	String	The name of the group.
organizations	Set.<organization>	The list of organizations that this group belongs to.
ownUsers	Set.<user>	The list of users that belong to this group directly.
parent	userGroup	The parent group that this group belongs to.
project	Set.<project>	The list of projects in which the group is used as a resource.
projectRoles	Set.<projectRole>	The list of project roles assigned to the users of this group.
subgroups	Set.<userGroup>	The list of groups that belong to this group as sub-groups.
userCount	Integer	The number of users that belong to the group.
users	Set.<user>	The list of all users that belong to this group.

Read a Specific Group of a User

Get a specific group where the user belongs to.

Request Syntax

GET <Hub Service URL>/api/rest/users/{userID}/groups/{groupsID}?{fields}

Request Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
fields	String	Optional. Returns only the specified subset of the fields for each user. Use Fields Syntax to define the subset.

Sample

Request

                    https://example.youtrack.cloud/hub/api/rest/users/7a0563d6-a39e-4724-80e7-081acb8d2c99/groups/9d3d19df-755d-4bc0-84fe-675d79e8c49a?fields=id,name
                

Response Body

                    {
                          "type": "userGroup",
                          "id": "9d3d19df-755d-4bc0-84fe-675d79e8c49a",
                          "name": "Admins"
                      }
                

Remove a Specific Group from Groups of a User

Remove a group from the list of groups where the user belongs.

Request Syntax

DELETE <Hub Service URL>/api/rest/users/{userID}/groups/{groupID}?fields=string

Request Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
fields	String	A list of User attributes that should be returned in the response. If no field is specified, only the `entityID` is returned.

Sample

In this example, we remove a group with the id 9d3d19df-755d-4bc0–84fe-675d79e8c49a from the groups of a specific user.

Request

                    https://example.youtrack.cloud/hub/api/rest/users/7a0563d6-a39e-4724-80e7-081acb8d2c99/groups/9d3d19df-755d-4bc0-84fe-675d79e8c49a
                

Last modified: 19 June 2024