Introduction to ServiceNow getBooleanValue function | ServiceNow Client script tricks and tips

[Amit Gujarathi]

Hi All,

I hope you are doing fine.

• We all have worked on the client-side validations in our project.
• We use client scripts that are of type onSubmit, onChange, onLoad, and onCellEdit.While working on the client-side scripting often we have a few boolean fields on the form and we want to execute some validation based on the boolean value.
• To extract the value of any fields the function we use is getValue() but do you know while working with the boolean fields (checkbox) this function doesn't work as expected?
• When we use the getValue('Boolean field name') we expect the outcome as a boolean, but it returns the string value instead of a boolean. Isn't it surprising?

In this video, we will get familiar with resolving this conflict. In this tutorial, we will be looking into the function "getBooleanValue".

• What is the getBooeanValue function?
  • getBooleanValue function is the client-side function that
  • can be used to extract the boolean value of the boolean fields on the form.

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Amit Gujarathi

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