Help with script to pull Approvers approval from workflow

[Community Alums]

Hi All,

I am fairly new to the ServiceNow Development world. I am also an novice script-er   So here is my question/Issue:

I've made an order guide that contains 60+/- check boxes that each would flow to a different approver. On the back end i created a   workflow to track role approvals.This is for one of our in house ERP systems. I was able to make the workflow wait for all of the rejections and the approvals but I now have a requirement to note who approved what(which checkbox) in the worknotes of the task.   I was able to pull the approvers and their decision (rejected. no longer required, approved) but I am not sure how to get the actual Checkbox that corresponds to the approver.

I used this workflow(Massive I know!!):

This is what is currently created on the worknotes:

Here is the script I used to pull the approvers decision:

var rowCount ;

      var sc_approval = new GlideRecord('sysapproval_approver');

      sc_approval.addQuery('sysapproval',current.sys_id);

      sc_approval.addActiveQuery();

      sc_approval.query();

  rowCount = sc_approval.getRowCount();

  while (sc_approval.next()){

  var userid = sc_approval.approver;

  sc_user= new GlideRecord('sys_user');

  sc_user.addQuery('sys_id',userid);

  sc_user.query();

  if (sc_user.next()){

  var userName = sc_user.name;

  }

  var theTaskMessage ;

  if (theTaskMessage == null){

  theTaskMessage = sc_approval.state.getDisplayValue()+' '+userName+ ' \n';

  }

  else {

  theTaskMessage = theTaskMessage + sc_approval.state.getDisplayValue()+' '+userName+ ' \n';

  }

  }

task.work_notes = theTaskMessage;

So What   I need to know is how to pull the variable that was approved form the workflow.

Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!!

[Community Alums]

Could you give me an example of how to do a scratchpad?

[randrews]

certainly workflow scratchpad is a GREAT toy it makes a variable you can use in the workflow to pass along values...

in the begining make a run script box that initializes all your variables.. this will be a basic script...

workflow.scrachpad.variable_name_1 = 'name of checkbox 1';

workflow.scratchpad.variable_name_2 = 'name of checkbox 2';

etc...

now anywhere in the workflow you can use workflow.scrachpad.variable_name_1 in a script.. so after it is approved drop in a script box

workflow.scratchpad.variable_name_1 += ' Was approved by' + approvers name;

do that after all the approvals/rejections..

in the task  

task.comments += workflow.scratchpad.variable_name_1

personally i would just change the activity names to Approval For <Variable display value>   then you can just use the display value for the wf activity off of the approval record.