How to get the display value of an encoded query?

[MG Casey]

Is there an easy way to convert an encoded query such as:

active=true^caller_id!=3643044b6ff851406b7283bc5d3ee42b^ORcaller_id=NULL

to make it look how it looks at the top of a ServiceNow list?

All > Active = true > Caller != Data Center Operations

For custom applications, allowing users to see a more readable version of their current filters would help tremendously. I'm just curious how ServiceNow does it for their own lists.

[Chris M3]

Chuck,

Are there any exposed functions that can return the readable format on the server side?  Use case is, if I'm using GlideFilter to check a record against a series of conditions, and I want to log/note the reason why it was excluded from the rest of the function, I'd like that to be in a readable format.

[Chuck Tomasi]

I've done some looking and experimenting, but I don't see anything. There must be a way because it's how the breadcrumbs are displayed, but I don't see any API that makes it available to the rest of the world. If I hear of anything, I'll be sure to post.

[Chuck Tomasi]

I did some checking with our API team and came up with this. It only works in global. No word on a scoped version yet. I haven't tried the script include workaround yet.

I believe the two arguments are tablename and encoded query string (substitute with field values in this example.)

gs.info(new GlideQueryBreadcrumbs().getReadableQuery('incident','active=true^caller_id=46c9e158a9fe198101d44d0d22cb640d'));
 
*** Script: Active = true .and. Caller = Chuck Farley

[B_10]

Thank you, this is definitely something to go on.  I appreciate the help.

[B_10]

Thanks man, I'm gonna need to check these things out