How do I grant access to the "Show Choice List" option on a form?

[rpmiller]

I want to grant access to administer choice lists on a particular table.   I created an ACR that gives the personalize_choice operation on that table to a particular role, and that works very well.   Users with that get the "Configure Choices" option and they can create and administer choices as expected.   But I want to give them the ability to delete choices as well on this specific table.   I am aware of the risk of doing this.

I have created an ACR that grants the read permission to the choice list sys_choice in the application scope and to sys_choice.* at the global scope.   In doing this I expected the "Show Choice List" option to appear in the context menu when right clicking on one of my choice fields as a user with the correct role.   But it does not.   Can anyone tell me what step I am missing.

I know that I will have to also grant delete access to the list, but first things first I want them to be able to see the list.

Thank you for reading.

[ccajohnson]

It may be that this choice is limited to users with a different role. Here is the wiki article that contains the standard roles:

Base System Roles - ServiceNow Wiki

Try different roles until you see what role you need. Most likely it may be a role that has too much permissions in which case you may need to rethink why you would want to grant access to adjust choices in the first place.

[GregJWillis]

Can I suggest you use a new table for the choice list here?   This way you can control the ACLs, roles, membership with editing/deleting rights completely separate from the OOB Admin only sys_choice table?

The field's dictionary config is easy to point to the new table.

[rpmiller]

That's an idea.   Is extending the sys_choice table the best way to do that?