How to capture the watch list value in a variable in servicenow

[phr]

Hi All,

How to capture watch list value in a business rule via variable

I did write the code

var watch= current.watch_list;

But the variable "watch" isn't capturing the watch list vale.

How to achieve this?

[Sandeep Rajput]

@phr The condition is failing because the current.sys_updated_by returns a user name (e.g. abel.tuter) whereas the watchlist contains a comma separated list of user sys_ids. I recommend using the following piece of code to fetch sys_id if the user from user name.

var updated = '';
var userName = current.sys_updated_by;
var userRec = GlideRecord('sys_user');
if(userRec.get('user_name',userName)){
    updated = userRec.getValue('sys_id');
}

Add the above lines in your code and your watch list contains check will start working.

Hope this helps.