Best way to detect Prod or sub-prod from the client side?

[Community Alums]

What is the best way to determine if the instance is prod or sub-prod from a UI Script?

[edwin_munoz]

Hello Shannon,

Can you give more details about your requirement?

You can use pure javascript to get the current url: javascript - Get current url in web browser - Stack Overflow

You can also create a function in a script include that returns the instance name and call it on the UI Script.

If you only need this UI script in certain table you can create a display business rule and create a scratchpad variable with the name of the instance.

Thanks.

[Community Alums]

Hi Edwin,

This is a UI Script that I use for our development team.   The script is currently checking the URL and if it isn't production, I am replacing the nav_header_text with the instance name and Update Set name.   That helps us make sure we are on the correct update set while we are working.    

So far, I'm thinking I would need to create a little script include that I can call that will check the property, glide.installation.production.

[ahaz86]

Client Callable Script include (To get the instance in the UI Script)

var GetInstance = Class.create();

GetInstance.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, {

       getInstance: function() {

                   return gs.getProperty('instance_name');

       }

});

In your ui script

getInstance();

function getInstance(){

       var ga = new GlideAjax('GetInstance');

       ga.addParam('sysparm_name','getInstance');

       ga.getXMLAnswer(getInstanceParse);

}

function getInstanceParse(response){

   alert(response);

}

[ahaz86]

Shannon Thurston in my example you could replace the "instance_name" with "glide.installation.production" to get the true/false value