Does the Script Debugger work with Service Portal Widgets Server Scripts?

[tmgarcia]

Coming from Helsinki, I'm just starting to look at the new features in Jakarta (and by virtue of skipping it, Istanbul).

I'm super excited about the shiny new Script Debugger and have already been testing it out with various Script Includes. However, it does not seem to work with Service Portal's Widgets' Server Scripts.

If I view the Widget records through the form view in the backend (not through the sp_config portal editors) I am able to add breakpoints to the Server Script, and these do appear on the left hand side of the Script Debugger window. However, viewing a page containing the widget (and therefore triggering the server script) does not cause the debugger to pause at that breakpoint.

Has anyone else tried this and got it working by chance? Or if it's not currently supported, has there been any word on if/when this support might be added?

[sachin_namjoshi]

They included some nice functionality with service portal where you can use console.log() from the server and then see those in the browser console. You can also right click on the rendered widget and have it log out the scope object or just the data object into the browser console. That being said, gs.log() should be supported in the server script portion of a widget.

documentation/debugging.md at master · service-portal/documentation · GitHub

Regards,

Sachin

[tmgarcia]

Oh don't get me wrong I know the current way of "debugging" the server scripts, I was just really hoping to get to join in on this actual debugger functionality.

Being able to pause at a breakpoint and step through each line, seeing the scope values and all would make life so much easier. The current go to of adding console logs, saving, running, moving and shifting prints somewhere else, etc etc isn't just time consuming, it clutters up the version history for the Widget something awful.

And the angular $scope inspection is helpful of course, but the only real peak at the server script you can gain from there is whatever values you dump into the data object, which still doesn't help when it's the execution you're trying to investigate in depth.

[Harsh Vardhan]

Hi Taylor,

Adding few more links. hope it will help you.

ServicePortal: Debugging Widget Scripts

Service Portal | Debugging Tips - YouTube

[tmgarcia]

Thanks for the links, but like I replied above, I'm already familiar with the current way of debugging Service Portal Widgets, I just want to know, specifically, if there's support to use the new Script Debugger.