How do I identify who the notification event creator is?

[Wayne Richmond1]

I want technicians to be able to append email notifications with a personalised signature. I have created a field on the user form called 'Email signature' which they can update. I intend to write an email script that will be included in an email layout so that all notifications using the template\layout with pull in the user's signature. However, how do I identify is generating the email, i.e., who the event creator is? Is it the current user? If so, why doesn't this mail script work?

(function runMailScript( /* GlideRecord */ current, /* TemplatePrinter */ template,
    /* Optional EmailOutbound */
    email, /* Optional GlideRecord */ email_action,
    /* Optional GlideRecord */
    event) {

    var user = gs.getUser();
    if (user.u_enable_email_signature == true) {
        template.print(user.u_email_signature);
    }


})(current, template, email, email_action, event);

Thanks

[Weird · Accepted solution]

You can try
event.user_id

and

event.user_name

to get the user id and user name from the event. Then you can just use GR to get the information you want.

[Weird]

Basically you should be able to check any value that the event has in the sysevent table.

[Wayne Richmond1]

Thanks!

This is the code I used in the end:

(function runMailScript( /* GlideRecord */ current, /* TemplatePrinter */ template,
    /* Optional EmailOutbound */
    email, /* Optional GlideRecord */ email_action,
    /* Optional GlideRecord */
    event) {

    var userGr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
    userGr.get(event.user_id);
    if (userGr.u_enable_email_signature == true) {
        template.print(userGr.u_email_signature.replace(/\n/g, "<br>"));
    }

})(current, template, email, email_action, event);

[Saurav11]

Please use the below:-

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