Create ACLs based on views

[ShAn21]

Hi,

Is it possible to create ACL based on views? I have view on list view where I want to restrict editing a field. But I do not want it to impact other views? Can someone tell how can we we achieve this?

Regards

[Muhammad Khan]

Yes, that is correct. If it is list ACL, then there is no need of indexOf(). It should only check for the view via gs.action.getGlideURI().get('sysparm_view') or RP.getParameterValue('sysparm_view'). 

[ShAn21]

Hi Muhammad

gs.action.getGlideURI().get('sysparm_view') returns null for me.

[Muhammad Khan]

@ShAn21 

Try this

var answer = true;
if (gs.action.getGlideURI().getMap().get('x_referer').indexOf('sysparm_view=<backend_view_name>') >= 0){
          answer = false;

[Brian Lancaster]

It kind of  works. However like in my last message if I open incident list from a menu there is no sysparam_view in the url. So therefor the ACL does not work. Example below when going to incident > Assigned to Me

https://<instance_name>.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=%2Fincident_list.do%3Fsysparm_userpref_module%3D283b6424c611228501ffeaea1e115220%26sysparm_query%3Dactive%253Dtrue%255Eassigned_to%253Djavascript%253AgetMyAssignments%2528%2529%255EEQ%26active%3Dtrue%5Eassigned_to%3Djavascript&colon;gs.user_id()%26sysparm_clear_stack%3Dtrue

[Brian Lancaster]

I have noticed a couple things.

1. To use gs.action.getGlideURI() you must do it like this otherwise you get null. gs.getProperty("glide.servlet.uri") + gs.action.getGlideURI();
2. This does not seems to work in ACLs.
3. I tried to do this using a before update business rule. However I found that if you go to the menu Incidents > Open the view is not in the URL unless you refresh the list. So it therefor does not work via a business rule either.

I don't think there is a way to do this without making this impact other views. I'm not sure I understand what your are trying to get out of this. Since the user could just change the view they are on.