Knowledge management

[Sweta1012]

When a user checks out a published article (for which the user is not the author) in knowledge management and it goes to the draft state, the author field should auto populate to the logged-in user. How to achieve it through scripting?

[Harish KM · Accepted solution]

Hi there are 2 ways to do this, you can modify the UI action checkout like below or you need to modify the scriptinclude which is getting called in checkout UI Action

script:

current.author = gs.getUserID(); // set loggedin user ID to author
current.update(); // update the record

[Sandeep Rajput]

@Sweta1012 How the article state would change to Draft state? Will it be done by the logged in user?

[Sweta1012]

Yes, by the logged in user. The logged in user will checkout the published article and it will be changed to draft

[Sandeep Rajput · Accepted solution]

@Sweta1012 Create an on before update business rule with following configuration on your kb_knowledge table with following configuration.

Add following script in your business rule.

Here is the script.

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/) {

	// Add your code here
	if(!current.author){
		current.author=gs.getUserID();
	}

})(current, previous);

Hope this helps.

[Harish KM · Accepted solution]

Hi there are 2 ways to do this, you can modify the UI action checkout like below or you need to modify the scriptinclude which is getting called in checkout UI Action

script:

current.author = gs.getUserID(); // set loggedin user ID to author
current.update(); // update the record