usergroup.exists

Description

boolean usergroup.exists(object filter)

This method checks if at least one user group that matches the given filter criteria exists.

This method is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Please use usergroup.get instead.

Parameters

(object) Criteria to search by.

The following parameters are supported as search criteria.

Parameter Type Description
name string/array Names of the user groups.

Return values

(boolean) Returns true if at least one user group that matches the given filter criteria exists.

Examples

Checking if a user group exists

Check if user group "Zabbix administrators"

Request:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "usergroup.exists",
    "params": {
        "name": "Zabbix administrators"
    },
    "auth": "3a57200802b24cda67c4e4010b50c065",
    "id": 1
}

Response:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": true,
    "id": 1
}

See also

Source

CUserGroup::exists() in frontends/php/include/classes/api/services/CUserGroup.php.