User Group - accessing names and handles.

[StuartMcD]

Currently recording hard coded user group IDs to be saved with entries that I then use to retrieve based on a users group by searching a text field looking for corresponding ID, all is good the world.

{% set q = 'plainText:3 OR plainText:6' %}
In reworking this flow, I'm looking to access, programmatically, the user groups detail rather than manually writing case/if statements

if 3 { "<h4>Group 3 name</h4>" } if 6 { "<h4>Group 6 name</h4>" }

All info uses user.groups to restrict viewing.

Cannot find any documentation about accessing user group names and handles. If I rename a group or introduce more, I'd like to access the names programmatically.

I've found previous discussions but the code used doesn't seem to exist in v4

https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/20575/how-to-list-all-user-groups-and-users

[brandonkelly]

You should generally be checking groups based on their handles, rather than IDs. You don’t have any control over user groups’ IDs, and they could change from environment to environment.

Currently recording hard coded user group IDs to be saved with entries that I then use to retrieve based on a users group by searching a text field looking for corresponding ID, all is good the world.

{% set q = 'plainText:3 OR plainText:6' %}

Is this for a user query? If so you can use the group param to pass in the user group handles you care about:

{% set users = craft.users()
  .group(['groupA', 'groupB'])
  .all() %}

In reworking this flow, I'm looking to access, programmatically, the user groups detail rather than manually writing case/if statements

if 3 { "<h4>Group 3 name</h4>" } if 6 { "<h4>Group 6 name</h4>" }

All info uses user.groups to restrict viewing.

Cannot find any documentation about accessing user group names and handles. If I rename a group or introduce more, I'd like to access the names programmatically.

user.groups is going to give you an array of the UserGroup models that the user belongs to, and you can access their name and handle from there.

{% for group in user.groups %}
  {{ group.name|t }}
{% endfor %}

You could also call user.isInGroup() if you want to restrict certain output unless a user belongs in a particular group.

{% if user.isInGroup('groupA') %}
  ...
{% endif %}