How to make the property 'glide.ui.polaris.experience' user specific?
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ā06-10-2022 07:44 AM
Hi,
Is there a way to make glide.ui.polaris.experience property user specific? When I am providing the value of this property as true, since its a global property, the UI is changing for everyone who are using the instance. Kindly help on this.
Thanks and regards,
Vandana M V
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ā06-10-2022 07:50 AM
Hello,
Please refer this link to get your answer.
User Preference "glide.ui.polaris.use"
Just browsing through a San Diego instance with Next Experience active, there doesn't seem to be an option to enable/disable Next Experience on the user level or it's well hidden. The ServiceNow Product Documentation also doesn't mention anything about this. Turning a San Diego instance inside out, I did notice some new User Preferences, one of them:
Searching again on the ServiceNow Product Documentation, "glide.ui.polaris.use" is mentioned though as System Property. Clearly this is incorrect. The description mentioned is "Toggles Next Experience for a specific user." That sounds interesting!
Updating the value of User Preference "glide.ui.polaris.use" which has System checked, to false, and logout/login... UI16 is active! Because this is a User Preference with System checked, let's duplicate this User Preference, uncheck System, and add our own user:
Logout/login... Next Experience is active! Impersonating a random user who can access the Platform UI... UI16 is active!
So that's it for making Next Experience active on a user level. Obviously System Property "glide.ui.polaris.experience" does need to be active for this. Though just change the value of User Preference "glide.ui.polaris.use" which has System checked to false, and add User Preferences for individual users.
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ā06-10-2022 07:51 AM
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ā06-10-2022 07:51 AM
Hi,
The user preference is: glide.ui.polaris.use
So if you go to sys_user_preference and you can add that as true or false to enforce the Next Experience UI or not per user.
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ā06-10-2022 08:05 AM
Hi there,
Here you go:
- 2022-02-14 Enable/Disable Next Experience UI on user level (San Diego)
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