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03-15-2016 05:10 PM
My goal is to be able to come up with an incident report for each user where I can see incidents that they have modified in the last 48 hours. Problem is with the current incident fields this doesn't seem possible. You can search on an updated last 48 hours filter, however the updated by will always be the latest user to update an incident so if a different user touched the incident before that there doesn't seem to be a way to accomplish this in an incident report. I was thinking of doing a report on the audit table, or even just running a script that pulls the data, but trying to query sys_audit in any fashion seems to be a horrible idea and I have to cancel the transaction before it just endlessly runs.
Does anyone know of a way to grab the data I am looking for here? Is sys_audit my only option?
Best regards,
Brian
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03-16-2016 06:13 AM
Definitely reporting on sys_audit is almost impossible, but you can use Metrics to get your answers. There is a little setup involved, but it works nice.
Step 1: create new Metric, on Incident table, with Type Script Calculation but leave Script area blank. Field doesn't matter but note sys_id of new Metric.
Step 2: create a before business rule on Incident table like below
Step 3: add the following script in the advanced section of your BR. Update the 2 sys_ids of var MetricSysID to match your Metric from Step 1
{
//sys id of the metric definition
var metricSysID = '3c9eb5770f4a9600c2498f8ce1050ea5';
var mi= new GlideRecord('metric_instance');
mi.addQuery('id',current.sys_id);
mi.addQuery('definition',metricSysID);
mi.query();
//if mi.next will insert another if exists.
//if !mi.next, will insert new entry
if(!mi.next()){
insertMetrics();
}
// since !mi.next inserts new, this will insert updates.
else if(current.active == true && current.operation() == 'update'){
insertMetrics();
}
}
function insertMetrics() {
var mi= new GlideRecord('metric_instance');
//sys id of the metric definition
var metricSysID = '3c9eb5770f4a9600c2498f8ce1050ea5';
mi.initialize();
mi.definition = metricSysID;
mi.start = previous.sys_updated_on;
mi.end = gs.nowDateTime();
mi.duration = gs.dateDiff(mi.start, mi.end);
mi.id = current.sys_id;
mi.value = gs.getUser().name;
mi.calculation_complete = true;
mi.insert();
}
gs.log('Metric trigger');
Step 4: (last one) Build a report of the newly captured data. (Doesn't not work on existing data, just new data after this is implemented
It might seem like a lot but screen shots are better than a bunch of words!
I use this all the time.

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12-13-2016 06:14 AM
Hello Michael,
Thanks for your respond. As I understand first I need to create one metric definition with current assignment group and then one more with previous group? yes?
Then I need to create business rules with conditions mentioned above but what to mention as sys_id? In condition for current and for previous it's OK, but for script which sys_id I should mention?Can you please answer with screenshot?
Thanks in advance.

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12-13-2016 06:30 AM
Just follow the steps listed in this thread. Only 1 metric needs to be created, and you will have to create a new field on the Metric table to capture the previous assignment group.

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01-04-2017 02:25 AM
Thank you very much, Michael!
Best Regards,
Ulvis
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05-24-2017 04:07 AM
Hello Michael,
Thanks a lot. It was a great help for me that paved the way to solve another requirement.
Cheers!
Kind Regards,
Rajshekhar Paul

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12-13-2017 07:05 PM
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you Michael!