How to call a UI Macro with parameters?

[bcronrath]

I was reading through UI Macros - ServiceNow Wiki and under description it says "Describe the purpose of the macro and parameters passed to it.".   I'm wondering how you go about passing parameters when calling a UI Macro, and how to retrieve them within the UI Macro itself?

Best regards,

Brian

[raprohaska]

Lets add a little more challenge to this. I want to call a macro (displaying as a formatter on the CMDB form) recursively. Because I'm using "current" to lookup references to the selected CI, the scripts run in phase 2. I don't think there is any sort of scope associated to the macro because I can reference the primary macro values from the inner (recursive) macro.

What ends up happening is that a recursive forEach loop is processed and I get an error message stating the "<j2:forEach> requires a closing tag" message.

Is this possible to do? I know it would be much easier in Angular but my requirement is to display a "Location Map" on the form of the selected CI.

So, I have a JavaScript Object that looks like this:
[{

    name: "Server1",

    parents: [{

          name: "Rack1",

          parents: [{

                  name: "Computer Room1"

                  parents: []

            }]

    }]

}]

I want to display this hierarchy in the formatter visually. keeping it easy it might look like this
Server1 --> Rack1 --> Computer Room 1

Primary Macro:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">

      <g2:evaluate var="jvar_li" object="true">

                  var util = new FISCiRelUtil();

                  var locationInfo = util.getLocationInfo(current);// returns an object described above

                  locationInfo;

        </g2:evaluate>

        <j2:if test="$[jvar_li.length > 0]">

        <div class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigationi">

                <h1 style="display: inline-block;" class="navbar-title">

                        Configuration Item Location - $[current.u_number]

                </h1>

        </div>

        <div>

                      <j2:forEach items="$[jvar_li]" var="jvar_currentCi">

                              <g:macro_invoke macro="fis_cmdb_location_part" body="$[jvar_currentCi]" />

                      </j2:forEach>

        </div>

        </j2:if>

</j:jelly>

Recursive Macrow

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">  

    <div>

              $[jvar_body.name]

              <j2:forEach items="$[jvar_body.parents]" var="jvar_subCurrentCi">

                            <g:macro_invoke macro="fis_cmdb_location_part" body="$[jvar_subCurrentCi]" />

              </j2:forEach>

      </div>

</j:jelly>

Thanks in advance,

AA