Process Flow dynamicly shows a Process Formatter...

[DrewW]

So I needed the Process Flow formatter to show a Flow Formatter dynamically and since some of the java code was not available I updated the UI Macro "process_flow" to do what I needed. Including it all here for those who mite be interested in such an enhancement.

Add the field "u_view_condition" with a type of "conditions" to the sys_process_flow table.

Here is the new code for the UI Macro "process_flow"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/process_flow_formatter.cssx"></link>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2" width="100%" nowrap="true">
            <div>
                <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                    <tr>
                        <g2:flow_formatter var="jvar_flows" table="$[__ref__.getRecordClass()]" current="$[__ref__]" />
                        <g2:evaluate var="jvar_table" jelly="true">
                            var afterCurrent = false;
                            var tableText = "";
                            var show = [];
                            var label = "";
                            var gr = new GlideRecord("sys_process_flow");
                            gr.addQuery("table", current.sys_class_name);
                            gr.orderBy("order");
                            gr.query();
                            while(gr.next()){
                                //If you do not do this you get the last value of gr.label in all elements, do not know why exactly.
                                label = new String(gr.label);
                                //Check to see if the record should be displayed.  If so add element to array.
                                //Array info
                                //   show[] -> Each element is a flow formatter record to display
                                //      show[][0] -> Label for the flow formatter to display.
                                //      show[][1] -> state: used to indicate the state of the flow formatter.
                                //              Possible values: past, current, future
                                //      show[][2] -> next_state: used to indicate the state of the next flow formatter.
                                //              Possible values: past, current, future
                                if(Packages.com.glide.script.Filter.checkRecord(current, gr.u_view_condition)){
                                    show.push(new Array(3));
                                    show[show.length - 1][0] = label;
                                    //Check if this is the current flow that should be green/selected.
                                    if(Packages.com.glide.script.Filter.checkRecord(current, gr.condition)){
                                        show[show.length - 1][1] = "current";
                                        show[show.length - 1][2] = "future";
                                        //Once current is found update the previous element
                                        if(show.length > 1){
                                            show[show.length - 2][2] = "current";
                                        }
                                        afterCurrent = true;
                                    } else {
                                        if(afterCurrent){
                                            show[show.length - 1][1] = "future";
                                            show[show.length - 1][2] = "future";
                                        } else {
                                            show[show.length - 1][1] = "past";
                                            show[show.length - 1][2] = "past";
                                        }
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                            //clear the next_state element so that the process flow has a pointer at the end.
                            show[show.length - 1][2] = "";
                            if(!afterCurrent){
                              show[show.length - 1][1] = "future";
                            }
                            //Build the table
                            for(i in show){
                                tableText += '<td class="process_flow ' + show<i>[1] + '" title="' + show<i>[0] + '">';
                                tableText += show<i>[0];
                                tableText += '</td>';
                                tableText += '<td width="16" height="100%">';
                                tableText += '    <img style="height: 24px; width: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" src="images/chevron_' + show<i>[1] + '_' + show<i>[2] + '.pngx" />';
                                tableText += '</td>';
                            }
                            tableText;
                        </g2:evaluate>
                        $[jvar_table]
                    </tr>
                </table>
            </div>
        </td>
    </tr>
</j:jelly>

[DrewW]

Have you tried
http://myinstance.service-now.com/images/chevron_current_future.pngx

to see if they load?

[garyopela]

Yes, that was the first thing i tried was to make sure the pngx files were there and were named as expected. I will work with what you had put in your previous reply and update this thread.

Thanks!

[garyopela]

Here's some humor. I have an annotation box on one of my test plan tabs for change_request that just has some generic instructions. I added the HTML to the annotation box and it worked perfectly. I'm wondering if all else fails, if I can just use an annotation box and then use like an onLoad script to set the annotation box to the HTML.

Since the annotation box can display HTML, i'm not sure why the process formatter cannot.

[DrewW]

Have you looked at the HTML code sent to the browser? It really sounds like you are having an HTML escaping issue.

[garyopela]

Okay, i'm looking to see if I can figure out where that setting is, if it is even a setting.