Unable to fetch Group description through CSOM for SharePoint Online

Question

While fetching SharePoint site Groups from SharePoint online using CSOM, I am getting all requested properties for the group except the Description even when the description is nonempty for the SharePoint group.

ClientContext context = new ClientContext("https://{site_url}"); Web web = context.Web; context.Load(web); context.ExecuteQuery(); context.Load(web.SiteGroups, x => x.Include(group => group.Id, group => group.Title, group => group.Users, group => group.Description)); context.ExecuteQuery();

Answer 1

Hi @Abhinav Vashishtha

Per my test, I can retrieve group description by following code, please make a reference

using (ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://MyServer/sites/MySiteCollection"))
{
// Get all the groups at site level
GroupCollection oGroupCollection = clientcontext.Web.SiteGroups;
 
clientcontext.Load(oGroupCollection);
clientcontext.ExecuteQuery();
 
// Iterate through each group
foreach (Group oGroup in oGroupCollection)
{
Console.WriteLine("-------------title-------------");
Console.WriteLine(oGroup.Title);
Console.WriteLine("-------------Description-------------");
Console.WriteLine(oGroup.Description);
}
}

Here is the test result

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