Dot Walking with script variables

[Florian Ricken]

Hi together I have a script in which I have a current object which is for example an approval and would like to have the dot walking path built dynamically in the script. For this I already have variables that give me the path as a string and so I thought I could just set this path after the current. Unfortunately this does not work, I get an undefined.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this cleverly?

if (recipients_fields) {
                for (var k = 0; k < recipients_fields.length; k++) {
                    if (show_button) {
						//Handle dot walked recipients fields
						var user3 = new GlideRecord("sys_user");
						if(recipients_fields[k].indexOf(".")!=-1){
							var split = recipients_fields[k].split('.');
							var dotWalkedPart = split[0].toString();
							var field = split[1].toString();
							if (user3.get("sys_id", current.dotWalkedPart.getValue(field))) {
                            if (user3.getValue("locked_out").toString() == "1")
                                show_button = false;
                        }
						}else{
							if (user3.get("sys_id", current.getValue(recipients_fields[k]))) {
                            if (user3.getValue("locked_out").toString() == "1")
                                show_button = false;
                        }
						}//End handle dot walked fields
						
                        
                        
                    } else
                        break;
                }
            }

[Javier Tirado1]

Hi Florian, did you worked this out?

[Javier Tirado1]

I have something like:

var variableName = "name";

var field = "current.variables." + variableName;

field will return a string -> "current.variables.name" , but I want to achieve the sys_id which would return if I just write the dot-walk normally.

[ricker]

@Florian Ricken,

You don't need getValue server side or the field name "sys_id" when using get.

Instead of

if (user3.get("sys_id", current.dotWalkedPart.getValue(field))) {

Try this

if (user3.get(current.field_name)) {//this would be the value of the field...you'll get a sys_id when it's a reference field.

}