How to access a record's URL in UI Action

[ywen]

We have a requirement of conditional logic in a UI Action.   I'm trying to pass in the application state via a custom query parameter in the record's URL.   For example the portalmode parameter below:   (blahs in place of sys id)

/sysapproval_approver.do?portalmode=yes&sysparm_view=ess&sys_id=blahblah

However when I use gs.action.getGlideURI() (following this solution https://servicenow-pub.hosted.jivesoftware.com/thread/222681 ) in the UI Action script, the string I get back does not match the parameters I passed to the record.   I'm getting back sysparm_tiny=blahblahblah

What am I doing wrong?   Thanks

[Pradeep Sharma]

Hi Yang,

You may find the below link helpful.

3 Ways to Populate Values in ServiceNow via the URL

[ywen]

THanks for the link.   However that article doesn't cover the use case I'm inquiring.

I want to pass in some arbitrary parameter when loading a record.   This arbitrary parameter is not necessarily an actual field on the record I'm loading. I would like for the UI Action script to be able to check for that parameter's value so I can execute conditional code.

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi Yang,

Here's something to try...

var uri = action.getGlideURI();

var map = uri.getMap();

map contains an object full of details on the record, including URI parameters (e.g. sysparm_view=ess).

[Shawn Dowler]

It would appear that your URL with parameters was longer than the property glide.tiny_url_min_length specified and so a tiny URL was generated and that's what you have access to. You could test this by increasing the value of glide.tiny_url_min_length or by setting glide.use_tiny_urls to false and see if you can get properties from the URL. Hopefully this gets you closer to a solution.