How to detect if user has a certain role on the Catalog Item?

[mattmg]

Hey,

I have a requested by field on the form (refferenced to sys_user table), which based on it's default value detect user (javascript:gs.getUserID()) - that works fine. 

Now I would like to create another field

'Does user has a 'itil' role?', how on the Catalog Item/Record producer can query for this and push the outcome to that new field?

TIA

Matt

[Najmuddin Mohd]

Hello @mattmg ,

You can use an onchange catalog client script on the requested by,

g_user.hasRole(g_form.getValue(newValue))

It returns true if the user has ITIL role.

You can write an if else condition and populate the value in the Second field, 'Does user has a 'itil' role.


2nd Approach, in the default value, you can write similar to gs.getUserID(), you can write,

javascript:gs.hasRole('itil'). It directly returns True or False in the Second field.



If the above information helps you, Kindly mark it as Helpful and Accept the solution.
Regards,
Najmuddin.

[Tai Vu]

Hi @mattmg 

If your variable is in Yes/No type. You can try to put this line below into as Default Value.

javascript:gs.hasRole("itil") ? "Yes" : "No"

Cheers,

Tai Vu

[mattmg]

this is what I get.

When I do 'javascript:gs.hasRole("itil") ? "Yes" : "No"'

it comes back Yes,

but equally if I change the role, that me as a logged in user doesn't have, like:

javascript:gs.hasRole("test_role_that _doesnt_exsist") ? "Yes" : "No"

it comes back with Yes

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@mattmg 

try to use onLoad catalog client script

Ensure you perform testing by logging in and not impersonating

function onLoad() {
    if (g_user.hasRole('itil'))
        g_form.setValue('variable', 'Yes');
    else
        g_form.setValue('variable', 'No');
}

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