Match some user against some user criteria record (server side)

[A Elbarbary]

Based on the official wiki page, a User Criteria record may contain a specific set of users, groups, roles, departments ....

My question is, do I have to do manual checking for the user against user criteria, something like:

1.       check if the user exists in user criteria users list
2.       then if the previous test failed, check if the user role exists in user criteria roles list
3.       then if the previous test failed, check for departments .... and so on

Or is there something out of the box in snow that carries out these checks for me? I guess there should be some way but I can't find any thing relevant in the official wiki or docs

[johnmark]

UserCriteriaLoader.getAllUserCriteria() method is a deprecated method and we advice using userMatches() instead.

☞ Please refer to this article below, which explains on this in detailed.
https://www.servicenow.com/community/now-platform-blog/a-deep-dive-to-user-criteria/ba-p/2281285

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