Identify used UI

[Victor Ogrizko]

Hello!

I need to find the way how to show UI action on form only if operator using "UI16" and hide it if "Polaris UI" is used.

Any suggestions?

Br,
Victor

[Abhay Kumar1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Victor, 

I believe if you have not enabled 'Polaris UI' for all users then there in User Preferences you would have used a property 'glide.ui.polaris.use' , you can look this property and how this is configured ( means there are some certain conditions to enable for all or enable for some sort of users this New UI)  in your organization/PDI, and on top of that you can use condition to show UI.

Hope this will help you!

[Victor Ogrizko]

Hello!

Thanks, its working. Just was curious if there is some native method.

Here is my script (method in custom script include):

userEnabledPolaris: function(usr) {  //usr - user's sys_id, gs.getUserID();
var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_user_preference');
gr.addQuery('name', 'glide.ui.polaris.use');
gr.addQuery('user',usr);
gr.query();
if ((gr.next())&&(gr.value=='true'))
return true;

var gr2 = new GlideRecord('sys_user_preference');
gr2.addEncodedQuery('name=glide.ui.polaris.use^userISEMPTY'); // system default
gr2.query();
if ((gr2.next())&&(gr2.value=='true'))
return true; //no personal setting, use global "true"

return false;
},

[Abhay Kumar1]

@Victor Ogrizko  Very frankly i could not find there is any native approach if  you are enabling New UI in mixed mode.

For you reference, we had found an issue and created a HI case for this that if you make system field false and try to save/update record in both UI & script, sometimes it makes true automatically.

So we have a workaround to make workflow(false) while updating through script for this.

Hope this will help you.