Adding a button to the Portal - to set the value of a 'true/false' field in an HR Case

[Carl Fransen1]

Hi Team,

I have a custom 'true/false' field called 'u_re_approval' which works with my workflow to send the HR Case for another round of approvals if rejected.  All this works great, except I need the employee to also be able to update the field via the HR Portal interface.

The Page I updated is 'hrj_ticket_page' pointing to the widget 'hrj-case-info' and the button shows up all fine, but I can't get the code working correctly to set the value of this field to 'true'.  I think it's the client and server code that isn't working and now sure why, any help is appreciated.

Widget HTML:

<button name="reapproval" class="btn btn-primary" style="margin-bottom: 20px" ng-click="reapprove();">Send for Re-Approval</button>

The above seems to work as the button is showing and when I press it the client statement console.log shows the current value.

Server Code:

// CJF 23-07-18 New server function for 'Send for Re-Approval' button for HR Training
	function(){	
	// Send for Re-Approval
		if (input && input.action){
			var action = input.action;
			if (action == 'reapprove'){
				grCase.setValue('u_re_approve2', true);
				grCase.update();
			}
		}
	}
	//CJF 23-07-18 - End of new function

Client Code:

// CJF 23-07-18
	$scope.reapprove = function() {
		console.log($scope.data.reApproval);
		//$scope.data.reApproval = true;
	//data.reApproval = grCase.getDisplayValue('u_re_approval');
	$scope.server.update();
					c.server.update().then(function(){
				//$scope.update();
		})
		}

Hopefully it's only something simple...

Cheers

Carl.

[SanjivMeher]

Ok...I would suggest use the UI action. That is much more easy, since you just want to set a field and not perform any client action. Create a UI action on you table and add your script instead of modifying the widget

[Carl Fransen1]

OK that sounds good - just not sure how I would be able to add a UI Action to my portal page and have it accessible form the hrj ticket page.

Are you able to help with this?

[SanjivMeher]

When you add a UI action on the table, it should automatically appear on the form.

I dont have access to that page right now, since I dont have HR plugin activated.

[Carl Fransen1]

A UI Action only works that way on the client side of ServiceNow, I need this to work on the portal, so it's definitely a widget mod that is required...

[SanjivMeher]

A UI action also works on portal. Because I have created myself lot of Server UI action which works fine on Portals. 

But Since I am not sure what are you displaying on the portal, I would ask you to try both. If it is a form widget, it should ideally show all the UI actions as well