Hot to get group name in obiee 11g

Hi All,
We have a requirement that whenever user login in answers, based on his group he should be able to see only his department data.If some how captures the group name we can filter the data by assisgning the group name to the variable but we stuck up with getting the group name.Please help us

VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.GROUP) shud give u the value of GROUP
http://108obiee.blogspot.in/2009/10/referencing-group-session-variable-in.html
http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/system_session_variable
Pls mark answered if it solves the issue.

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* December 2004
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Not able to get group name by using memberof class, getting Total groups as 0 even I am member of that group. Through this memberof class I am trying to find full qualified name(DN) of my group.
code I have used:
//specify the LDAP search filter
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               //Specify the Base for the search
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Also I have used,
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But in both cases I am getting value for Total groups as 0.
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* memberof.java
* December 2004
* Sample JNDI application to determine what groups a user belongs to
import java.util.Hashtable;
import javax.naming.*;
import javax.naming.ldap.*;
import javax.naming.directory.*;
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