Creating FIX Script which can be re-used for different values

[HT]

Hi, 

i have created a fix script to modify fields in the Incident table. 

In some cases we need to add values after creation. 

Managed to create the fix script, but the values i need to supply to the Incident table contain a different INC id everytime i run the script. 
Is there a way to make the script 're-usable' ... that is... Current when i use a new ID to search for and supply the values, i need to save the FIX Script, which results in a new version .. We will end up with a lot of versions this way. 

Fix script looks like this: 

(number and u_external_relation_id will both have different values everytime i need to run the script) 

updateIncident();

function updateIncident(){
try{
gs.info('Fix Script started for updateIncidentID');
var inc = new GlideRecord('incident');
inc.addQuery('number=INC0014924');

//inc.setLimit(10);
inc.query();
if(inc.next()){

inc.u_external_relation_id = 'INM000000452354';

inc.setWorkflow(false); 
inc.update();
}
gs.info('Fix Script Ended for updateIncidentID');

}
catch(ex){
gs.info('Exception is: ' + ex);
}
}

Thanks 

[apjohn2]

I did not know this and as I have some junior developers on the team whom I've seen do this for various use cases I am happy to know this now! Thank you Goran!

[Goran WitchDoc]

It's inspiring to see that things like this still hold true. 😀

[Goran WitchDoc · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You could easily just have it as a function in a script include and call it from scripts - Background. Script include could look something like this:

And then in the scripts - Background you just call it like this:

new incUtils().updateExtRel('INC0014924','INM000000452354')

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[HT]

Great, 

didn't think about using a function for this. 

Thanks!