List_Updater Gotchas

[Kevin Meier]

I am working on a large ServiceNow project and one of the user stories is to permit mass updates in all list views.  I know I can give the users the list_updater role, but what I am uncertain about is what the caveats are to allowing this?  For example, I'm thinking that client scripts will not be run and I'm positive none of the scripting in UI Actions will be executed, but what other things should I be concerned about?

Is it a best practice to not give business users the list_updater role?  Why?

Are there other alternatives?  Possible list_edit and just setting up ACLs for a few fields?

Thanks,

Kevin

[SanjivMeher]

UI policy/Client Script wont run. So any mandatory condition or script execution wont work which is configured using UI policy or Client script. Business Rules, Workflows, all server side script will work.