Comments on System.What?: SPWeb.Groups vs. SPWeb.SiteGroups

Thanks for this - we had some code that has an Own...

2011-01-24T00:17:19.528-08:00

Thanks for this - we had some code that has an Owners group as part of the site. The code used SPWeb.Groups and worked fine until the site was changed to inherit permissions from its parent. Suddenly the Owners group lost its permissions on the site, and the code threw an exception when trying to find the group in SPWeb.Groups

Thank you for this!!!

2010-07-16T09:53:36.860-07:00

Thank you for this!!!

You can't find mention in the API docs because the...

2008-10-30T09:31:00.000-07:00

You can't find mention in the API docs because these themselves are inferior and a sham. The company is relying on blogs to fill in the blanks on this overprices product.

It does Tony thank you. I've spent a lot more time...

2008-09-23T12:09:00.000-07:00

It does Tony thank you. I've spent a lot more time in SharePoint since I wrote this and have since then done 3 WSS Certs. Over the last year I've developed a little more clarity w.r.t. WSS! I wish you'd been around a year ago, I sure could have used your input. Thanks for the comment.

Best,
Tyler

Certainly dated here, but to help you out a bit, S...

2008-09-23T10:46:00.000-07:00

Certainly dated here, but to help you out a bit, SiteGroups returns ALL the groups at the site collection level. SPSite is higher in the object model hierarchy than SPWeb. SPWeb.Groups returns all the groups at the web site level.

So depending on what you want to do, say get all the groups for the current web site your in, use SPWeb.Groups, but if you want all the groups that have access to the entire site collection, use SPWeb.SiteGroups.

Clear anything up a bit?