adding roles to user

[sunnysunny]

This is the script for adding roles to the user, which I copied from wiki. Can anyone explain what is accumulated_roles here and why we convert this to string?

var gr = new GlideRecord("sys_user");

gr.query();

while(gr.next()) {

  if (gr.accumulated_roles.toString().indexOf(",self_service,") == -1) {

  gr.roles = gr.roles + ",self_service";

  gr.update();

}

}

[dvp · Accepted solution]

Here is the script that   will add self service role to all the active users

var gr = new GlideRecord("sys_user");

gr.addQuery('active', true)

gr.query();

while(gr.next()) {

      var grd = new GlideRecord('sys_user_has_role');

              grd.user = gr.sys_id;

grd.role = '[sys_id of the role you want to add]'; // sys_id of self_service role

grd.insert();

}

[sunnysunny]

ok, how did you get the sys_id of the self_service role?

[sunnysunny]

Thank you.

[Tushar Walveka2]

Try This script:

//Find a user eg.abc
var gUser = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
gUser.addEncodedQuery('user_name=abc');
gUser.query();
if(gUser.next()){

//Declare roles in array
var arr = ["role1","role2","role3"];

//Assign the roles 
var grd = new GlideRecord('sys_user_has_role');
for(var i =0; i<arr.length; i++){
   grd.initialize();
   grd.user = gUser.sys_id;
   grd.setDisplayValue('role',arr[i]); 
   grd.insert();
 }

}