Need a second set of eyes, isMemberOf not working

ServiceNowSteve · ‎01-05-2018

All I am trying to do is see if I am a member of the Managers group (which I am) but this code keeps telling me it's false. Any idea why?

var currentUser = gs.getUser(); 
if(currentUser.isMemberOf('Managers'))
{
gs.log('true');
}
else
{
gs.log('false');
}

ccajohnson · ‎01-05-2018

The first thing that comes to mind is that there may be duplicate groups with the same name. Hopefully that is not the case. If there is, perhaps that is why it is returning false. The query finds the first group with that name and unfortunately, you are not a member of **that** group.

See what happens if you remove yourself from a group, then add yourself back in and retry the script. Hopefully it is not an indexing problem, or you are running your script on the instance where you are not part of that group.

Here is a script you can use to get all of your memberships. I modified it so that it will return the names and the sys_id of the group:

var u = gs.getUserID();

var myGroups = getGroupMembership(u);

gs.info(myGroups);

function getGroupMembership(usrID) {

var retArray = [];

var memObj = new GlideRecord('sys_user_grmember');

memObj.addQuery('user', usrID);

memObj.query();

while (memObj.next()) {

var groupInfo = memObj.group.name + '[' + memObj.group + ']';

retArray.push(groupInfo);

}

return retArray;

}

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Surendra Raika1 · ‎01-05-2018

Tried on Scripts- Background ?

Any space as a prefix can be a possible cause.

ServiceNowSteve · ‎01-05-2018

No I tried it as a fix script. I don't understand background scripts, everytime I try to use that application it always says there's something missing from the code. In this case it says:

Javascript compiler exception: missing } in compound statement (null.null.script; line 😎 in:

var currentUser = gs.getUser();

ServiceNowSteve · ‎01-05-2018

I was able to get it working in Scripts - Background but it still reads false.

Surendra Raika1 · ‎01-05-2018

Have you checked the for the spaces in the name of the group and if the group is an active one !!