Customise the "Homepage Search" widget to display first name

[nathantenaglia]

Hi all,

Has anyone successfully updated the "Homepage Search" widget (or created their own) so rather than displaying the generic heading as per below:

It displays much the same way that the HI service portal homepage is configured by displaying a custom "Hi (first name of logged in user)". Example below.

This would give our portal a more personal experience.

Cheers, Nathan.

[diegosantiago · Accepted solution]

Server script:

(function() {

  /* populate the 'data' object */

  /* e.g., data.table = $sp.getValue('table'); */

      data.sysUserID = gs.getUserID();

              if (!data.sysUserID)

                                        data.sysUserID = gs.getUser().getID();

      var sysUserGR = new GlideRecord("sys_user");

      data.userExists = sysUserGR.get(data.sysUserID);

      if (data.userExists) {

              data.name = sysUserGR.getValue("first_name");

      } else {

              data.name = "User"

      }      

})();

HTML:

Edit this line and include the data.name element

<h1 class="text-center font-thin hidden-xs text-4x m-b-lg sp-tagline-color">{{options.title}} {{data.name}}?</h1>

In my case it show a message: "How can we help you, Diego?"

[nathantenaglia]

Champion, that worked perfectly and has now been implemented within our test environment.

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond and help me out.

Cheers, Nathan.

[VarunArulmani]

How can i locate the homepage widget's server script?

[Blaze2]

Varun:

Go to: http://your_instance.service-now.com/sp_config

choose the widget editor

select the homepage widget

If not checked, check the HTML and Server Script boxes