Pulling Variables to Email Notification

Sofija
Giga Expert

Hi All,

I have an email script that pulls variables in an organized manner to an approval email notification. However, it only pulls them if in catalogue item I used a variables set rather than individual variables. For example, if my service catalog item has a variables set of 10 items, email script will pull all of them. However, if I have a catalogue item with 10 variables, it will pull just a few of them. Could anyone be able to help me with this so all variables are pulled no matter if there is a variable set or not?

Here is the email script:

var reqI = new GlideRecord("sc_req_item");
reqI.addQuery("sys_id", current.sysapproval);
reqI.query();
if(reqI.next()) {
new Var2Desc().printVariables(reqI,function(){}, true);

}

Here is script include:

var Var2Desc = Class.create();
Var2Desc.prototype = {
      initialize: function() {
  /* map: element vs internal field type */
this.UI_PAGE = 15,
this.MASKED = 25,
this.DATE = 9,
this.NUMERIC_SCALE = 4,
this.CHECKBOX = 7,
this.MULTIPLE_CHOICE = 3,
this.DATE_TIME = 10,
this.CONTAINER_END = 20,
this.LABEL = 11,
this.WIDE_SINGLE_LINE_TEXT = 16,
this.YES_NO = 1,
this.HTML = 23,
this.SELECT_BOX = 5,
this.MACRO = 14,
this.REFERENCE = 8,
this.LOOKUP_MULTIPLE_CHOICE = 22,
this.LIST_COLLECTOR = 21,
this.MULTI_LINE_TEXT = 2,
this.SINGLE_LINE_TEXT = 6,
this.MACRO_WITH_LABEL = 17,
this.LOOKUP_SELECT_BOX = 18,
this.SPLIT = 24,
/* this is a list of elements that will be ignored */
this.IGNORE = [this.UI_PAGE, this.CONTAINER_END, this.HTML, this.MACRO,
this.MACRO_WITH_LABEL, this.SPLIT, this.LABEL];

      },

/*
* ritm           GlideRecord object
* func           javascript function to customize conditions
*                     to skip centain variables values
* noBlanks   true|false to avoid empty variable's value
*/
printVariables: function(ritm, func, noBlanks) {
gs.print("here in script");
var d = '';
var noBlanks = noBlanks || false;
var vars = this._getVariablesSorted(ritm);

/* loop the variables */
for(var i =0; i < vars.length; i++) {
var o = vars[i];
var type = o.type;
var label = o.label;
/* ignore list of types */
if(this._isIgnored(o.type))
continue;

/* if custom function is provided, execute custom conditions */
if(func && typeof func == 'function') {
if(func.call(this,o)) continue;
}

  var v = o.value;
if(gs.nil(v)) {
if(noBlanks)
continue;
} else {
/* for reference fields get the Display Value */
if(type == this.REFERENCE || type == this.LIST_COLLECTOR) {
v = v.getDisplayValue();
} else if(type == this.MULTI_LINE_TEXT) {
/* for multi line place an extra line in front
and ident every line with one space */
v = "\n " + o.value.toString().replace(/\n/g,"\n ");
}   else if(type == this.MULTIPLE_CHOICE || type == this.SELECT_BOX) {
/* get choices */
var choices = question.getChoiceList();
/* get label of value selected */
v = choices.getLabelOf(v);
}
}

template.print("<br>"+label+"</br>");
template.print("<br>"+v+"</br>");
}

},

_getVariablesSorted: function(ritm) {
var vars = [];
for(var variableName in ritm.variables) {
/* GlideObject */
var go = ritm.variables[variableName].getGlideObject();
/* Question */
var question = go.getQuestion();
/* Label */
var label = go.getQuestion().getLabel();
/* Type (numeric value) */
var type = new Number(go.getType());
/* Order (numeric value) */
var order = new Number(go.getQuestion().getOrder());
/* creates an Object */
var o = {
'name': variableName,
'label': label,
'value': ritm.variables[variableName],
'order': order,
'type': type
};
vars.push(o);
}
/* return the variables in order as per the form */
return this._quicksort(vars);
},

/* quick sort algorithm */
_quicksort: function(arr) {
if (arr.length === 0) {
return [];
}
var left = [];
var right = [];
var pivot = arr[0];
for (var i = 1; i < arr.length; i++) {
/* compare order from object */
if (arr[i].order < pivot.order) {
left.push(arr[i]);
} else {
right.push(arr[i]);
}
}
return this._quicksort(left).concat(pivot, this._quicksort(right));
},

/* check if the given field type should be ignored */
_isIgnored: function(type) {
for(i=0; i < this.IGNORE.length; i++)
if( this.IGNORE[i] == type)
return true;
return false;
},


      type: 'Var2Desc'
}


Kind Regards,

Kamile

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Sofija
Giga Expert

For those still looking for solution to this here email script that does the work beautifully:



// Get Requested Item


var reqitem = new GlideRecord('sc_req_item');


reqitem.addQuery("sys_id", current.sysapproval);


reqitem.query();


while(reqitem.next()) {


// Get Owned Variables for Requested Item and sort by Order


var ownvar = new GlideRecord('sc_item_option_mtom');


ownvar.addQuery('request_item.number', reqitem.number);


ownvar.addQuery('sc_item_option.value','!=','');


ownvar.orderBy('sc_item_option.order');


ownvar.query();


while(ownvar.next()) {


  // Add Question, Answer and Order into notification mail


  // Set variable v to variable name


  var field = ownvar.sc_item_option.item_option_new;


  var fieldValue = ownvar.sc_item_option.item_option_new.name;


 


  // Print variable name


  template.print( '<b>' + field.getDisplayValue() + '</b>' + '\n');


 


  // Print Display Value for each variable in Requested Item


  template.print( reqitem.variables[fieldValue].getDisplayValue() + "\n\n");


 


}


}


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51 REPLIES 51

Such a "simple" but useful script, thanks!

I'm curious though. Is there a way for it to only get the variables from a Catalog Task? Given that some tasks will only display selected variables from the Requested Item, I can see a requirement for this. 

Suresh1
Tera Guru

Please try to query from mtom table as we will get all variables from mtom table only.


var gR = new GlideRecord('sc_item_option_mtom');


gR.addQuery('request_item.number', ritmnumber);



And use these in the Email too. so we can see the variables in the email body too.