Get User by UserID

[prashant_gadgil]

in an UI action, I am trying to get User Object for the engineer selected by the user in the engineer field on the form.

var engUserID = current.engineer.user_name;
var thisUser = gs.getUser();
var engineerUser = thisUser.getUserByID(engUserID);

But it is giving error "Cannot find function getUserByID in object com.glide.script.fencing.ScopedUser"

Later I want to check if engineerUser is in some specific role..

How do I go about doing this validation or is there any other API I can use.

Thanks in advance for any help

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi Prashant,

It won't work in scoped app.

can you tell what is your requirement?

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Thanks
Ankur

[prashant_gadgil]

User will be submitting a new request in a scoped app. One of the fields he will select is Engineer for this request who will approve it. So Engineer field on the form is a reference field to Sys User table. Since I can't put constraint on which user he will select from the many users, before submitting the request, in Submit Request UI Action, I want to check if the engineer selected has a particular role.... hence in my script above, i will be doing hasRole check on the engineerUser object.

But I can't get to that object due to this limitation of scoped app GlideUser API.

[ggg]

you can write a display BR and set g_scratchpad.xxx with any data you need.

then use g_scratchpad.xxx in your UI Action.