Operations with Specific UserGroup

This resource lets you read the list of user groups and specific user group in YouTrack.

Resource	/api/admin/groups/{groupID}
Returned entity	UserGroup. For the description of the entity attributes, see Supported Fields section.
Supported methods	`GET`: Read a Specific UserGroup.

UserGroup attributes

Represents a group of users.

This table describes attributes of the UserGroup entity.

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

Field	Type	Description
name	String	The name of the group. `Read-only`. `Can be null`.
ringId	String	ID of the group in Hub. Use this ID for operations in Hub, and for matching groups between YouTrack and Hub. `Read-only`.
usersCount	Long	The number of users in the group. `Read-only`.
icon	String	The URL of the group icon. `Read-only`. `Can be null`.
allUsersGroup	Boolean	True if this group contains all users, otherwise false. `Read-only`.
teamForProject	Project	Project that has this group set as a team. Returns `null`, if there is no such project. `Read-only`. `Can be null`.

Read a Specific UserGroup

Read attributes of the specific user group.

Required permissions

No permissions are required for reading basic information, for accessing all data requires Read User Group permission.

Request syntax

GET /api/admin/groups/{groupID}?{fields}

{groupID}

Database ID of the user group in YouTrack.

Request parameters

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

Sample

Sample request URI

                https://example.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/api/admin/groups/3-2?fields=id,name,ringId,usersCount,teamForProject(name,shortName)
            

Sample response body

                {
                  "ringId": "034e661c-bfc0-4e43-8efa-acc95ac53fd4",
                  "teamForProject": {
                    "shortName": "SP",
                    "name": "Sample Project",
                    "$type": "Project"
                  },
                  "name": "Sample Project Team",
                  "usersCount": 3,
                  "id": "3-2",
                  "$type": "UserGroup"
                }
            

Last modified: 17 December 2019