gs.getUserID() need basic understanding.

[naresh1019]

Hello Guys .....Can you please guide with the following requirement.

1) I have a form with with only two date fields.

2) I want to create ACL to update the entries depending on the users who creaetd it .

3)

The following sript condition is not working.

4) please guide me ,

[Community Alums]

Hi Naresh,

The condition will never return true as:

gs.getUserID will return in form of sys_id . Ex.33fe5245c331210038bf506adfba8fcc

current.sys_created_by will return string. Ex. Naresh Chandurkar.

You should be using following condition if you want to check the validity of current user.

gs.getUserName() = current.sys_created_by;

Let me know if you still have issues.

Cheers,

Hardit Singh

[naresh1019]

Nope Not working.

My Question to you .

1) what does sys_created_by return what --> userID or user Name.

2) UserName returns what --> UserID /User NAme

My Observations

sys_careated_by-->returning userID

uer_name returns-->name

[tvani]

Hi Naresh,

User ID is the label name of the field, and it is referred as user_name in the scripts as it is the DB name. I hope the below information clears your doubt.

Please let me know, if it helps.

[Aakash Shah4]

Hi Naresh,

The field User ID is having the label as User ID and column name as user_name

Which means both are one and the same

You can see by configure dictionary

Where as the function gs.getUserID() will return the sys_id of the currently logged in user

gs.getUserName() funcation will return the user_name which is the User ID field of the sys_user table

Check this link

getUserID()	Returns the sys_id of the current user.
getUserName()	Returns the username of the current user (for example, jsmith).

http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=GlideSystem#gsc.tab=0

[naresh1019]

Still the itil user is ablt to update the admin records