Filter group membership based on Department

[rdorman]

I have a requirement for my app as follows:

There is an Office365 group containing a list of people with approval authority from across the organization.

I need to create an approvers list field in my app that only displays people from that group whose department matches that of the current user.

Is there any way this can be achieved? The Office365Group.ListGroupMembers function does not appear to return the department, so can't just run a simple filter on the results.

[WarrenBelz]

Hi @rdorman ,

This blog of mine may be useful - you simply need to put the approvers in a Group of their own.

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[rdorman]

Hi @WarrenBelz ,

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately this does not answer my question.

I do already have a group of approvers. But it contains approvers from all branches of the organisation.

My PowerApp needs to be able to filter that group to only the approvers from the branch that matches that of the current user. 

Ideally we don't want to have to create a group for each branch as that is 18+ groups to then have to maintain the membership for.

[WarrenBelz · Accepted solution]

@rdorman ,

That is why I suggested they need their own Group. Very messy (and I have not tried it), but you would need to get the Group membership and then their Departments with Office365Users and filter on that.