Update SharePoint group description using Rest API

unction UpdateGroup()

{

debugger;

var addNewItemUrl ="/_api/web/sitegroups(26)";

var item =

{

"__metadata": { 'type': 'SP.Group' },

'Description': 'New description of the group'

};

groupupdate(addNewItemUrl, item);

}

function groupupdate(url2, data)

{

$.ajax({

url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl+url2,

type: "POST",

headers:

{

"content-type": "application/json;odata=verbose",

"X-RequestDigest": $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val(),

"X-HTTP-Method":"MERGE"

data: JSON.stringify(data),

success: function (data) {

alert("Group_Upuccessfully");

error: function (error) {

console.log(JSON.stringify(error));

}

});

}

For this code description are updating in right way.But I can't view on the people and groups on share point.

New description of the group

The description shows in xml was changed.

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Madhanmohan Devarajan9y ago
Accepted answer
There are few settings like "IsHiddenInUI":false value can be sent as JSON ODATA parameter for REST API. Please have a look in the below link to find more information on this.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn531432.aspx