getvalue of Short Field Name

[James Roberts]

I am trying to get value form "Field Name" on one of the audit tables.

these Field Name fields have a type of short field name.

var rs2 = new GlideRecord("sys_audit");
			rs2.addQuery("documentkey", data.sys_id.toString());
			rs2.addQuery("tablename", data.table.toString());
			rs2.addQuery("fieldname", "IN", fieldTypes.join(","));
			rs2.orderByDesc("sys_created_on");
			rs2.query();
			while (rs2.next())
			{

			var fl = rs2.fieldname.getDisplayValue();

both getvalue and getdisplay value are returning the system name rather than the friendly name.

What I mean by this is, it is returning "reopened_by" instead of "Last Reopened By"

Any idea how I get the latter?

[Community Alums]

I am trying do do the same but with the "element" field on the "sys_journal_field" table. 
@James Roberts have you found a solution?

[James Roberts]

Unfortunately I did not, I instead created a work around, for some specific fields i renamed them completely and others i used a replace.

var rs2 = new GlideRecord("sys_audit");
			rs2.addQuery("documentkey", data.sys_id.toString());
			rs2.addQuery("tablename", data.table.toString());
			rs2.addQuery("fieldname", "IN", fieldTypes.join(","));
			rs2.orderByDesc("sys_created_on");
			rs2.query();
			while (rs2.next())
			{
				// TEST USER'S ABILITY TO SEE WORK_NOTES - IF THEY CAN'T, AND THIS IS A WORK_NOTE, SKIP IT!
				if (rs2.fieldname.getValue().toString() == "work_notes" && !hasItilRole && !isInWorkNotesList)
					continue;                     
				// SKIP BLANK UPDATES - PUT IN PLACE AS CLOSE NOTES UPDATE TO BLANK WHEN INCIDENT REOPENED
				if (rs2.newvalue.toString() == "")
					continue;
				// TIDY UP NAMES AS DISPLAY VALUE STILL SHOWS VALUE OF FIELD NAME WITH UNDERSCORES
				var flvalue;
				if (rs2.fieldname.getDisplayValue() == "reopen_count")
					var flvalue = "incident reopened";
				else
					var flvalue = rs2.fieldname.getDisplayValue().toString().replace("_"," ");

I hope this helps a bit.

[Community Alums]

Thanks for your reply, nice touch. 

I figured out that the issue is with the "Short Field Name" field type because in my case I wanted to use such a field value to test a condition but it never worked.

What actually surprises me is that, contrary to you, I do need to use technical value for my condition and I manage to get the value. However, the script fails to test the "Short Field Name" value.

There is no information about the "Short Field Name" field type online so I just created two different business rules, building my condition with the native condition builder which actually solves my problem.