How can I get all list of work notes in incident?

Laida Garcia
Kilo Explorer

I have created a button on incident using UI Action, it suppose to get all the value of work notes after clicking it. 

2 REPLIES 2

Ankur Bawiskar
Tera Patron
Tera Patron

Hi,

you can take 2 approaches

Approach 1: query sys_journal_field

var arr = [];
var gr = new GlideRecord("sys_journal_field");
gr.addQuery("name", "incident");
gr.addQuery("element", "work_notes");
gr.query();
while (gr.next()) {
	arr.push(gr.getValue('value'));
}
gs.addInfoMessage("All work notes " + arr.toString());

OR

Approach 2:  UI Action should be server side

var notes = current.work_notes.getJournalEntry(-1); 
//stores each entry into an array of strings
var na = notes.split("\n\n");  
                      
for (var i = 0; i < na.length; i++)                 
  gs.addInfoMessage(na[i]);

regards
Ankur

Regards,
Ankur
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Hitoshi Ozawa
Giga Sage
Giga Sage

Hi Laida,

Following script will get the worknotes for the current incident.

var grIncident = new GlideRecord('sys_journal_field');
grIncident.addEncodedQuery('GOTOname=incident^element=work_notes^element_id=' + current.sys_id);
grIncident.orderBy('sys_created_on');
grIncident.query();
var workNotesArray = [];
while (grIncident.next()) {
  workNotesArray.push(grIncident.getValue('value').toString());
}
gs.info(workNotesArray);