Need to populate field with the value coming from URL Parameters onload

[R Akash]

Hello 

I have a requirement  where i need to click on content item which will redirect to the record producer and onload of record producer i need to populate category field. i am sending category as url parameter from content item. i am sending as below in content item

/xyz?id=sc_cat_item&sys_id=34b896be1b6320104c6a54ea234bcbe2&sysparm_category=Colleague Data Changes

On load i am getting as below

/xyz?id=sc_cat_item&sys_id=34b896be1b6320104c6a54ea234bcbe2&sysparm_category=Colleague%20Data%20Changes

onload i can see category name is different, is there anyway i can get that category name exactly how i am sending from content item. because of this i am not able to set the value.

Thanks

Akash

[Allen Andreas]

Hello,

Spaces are unsafe and need to be encoded, hence they're changed to %20, instead.

You aren't providing any information as far as what you're seeing the in the field itself, please give more information and this is somewhat inline with a question you've asked and had answered already: https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=70c67580db03c5100d48db85ca96...

Please mark reply as Helpful/Correct, if applicable. Thanks!

[asanderford]

I was able to find this at one point on a forum but I can't recall where. This is what we use on a catalog client script to auto fill an originating RITM number when a user clicks on a URL from an email that is generated in SN. 

function onLoad() {
//Populate the variables with the parameters passed in the URL
//Use the 'getParmVal' function below to get the parameter values from the URL
var ticket = getParmVal('sysparm_ritm');

if(ticket){
g_form.setValue('og_ritm', ticket);
}
}

function getParmVal(name) {
name = name.replace(/[\[]/, "\\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\\]");
var regexS = "[\\?&]" + name + "=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp(regexS);
var results = regex.exec(top.location);
if (results == null) {
return "";
} else {
return unescape(results[1]);
}
}