Add new 'Member Categories' as a property to arcgis.gis.User in the ArcGIS API for Python

[AaronKoelker]

The March 2022 update brought Member Categories to ArcGIS Online. It would be great if this property was accessible via the ArcGIS API for Python, in the user class of the gis module.

We have a decent-sized organization with many decentralized divisions within when it comes to GIS, so updates like Member Categories are much appreciated. By exposing this info via the API, we can build Dashboards updated via Notebooks to help track our user base.

Also would love to get to something like what was previously suggested in another Idea post, for tying custom role permissions to something like member categories.

[KrystalPhaneuf4]

I am trying the user.update(categories = ("NewCategory") with a new category. It assigns it to the user but does not show up in the left panel.  Has anyone else experienced this issue? 

[Theisen]

@KrystalPhaneuf4  I am running into this exact same issue. I am able to assign the member category using user.update(). It shows up in the members settings but it does not show up in the filter column to the left in Organization/Members page. 

Looking for something from ESRI on this one as it seems somewhat buggy to me.