Scripting to find values through CDMB Relationships on a Workflow

Jon S_
Giga Contributor

So, I've tried to piece together scripts that I've used before for this but could really use some help.

On a Change [change_request], there is a field [u_business_service_ci] that references one or many CMDB Business Services [cmdb_ci_service]. A Business Service is then related to one or more Servers [cmdb_ci_server] through the CI Relationship table [cmdb_rel_ci] (Parent is [cmdb_ci_service], Type is [Owns::Owned by], Child is [cmdb_ci_server]). On the referenced Servers, there is a True/False field called SOX Report Related [u_sox_report_related]. When a Change is submitted, on the workflow I need an If activity script that checks through all of the Change --> Business Services --> Servers to see if that checkbox is present for at least one and return true.

This is what I've came up with but to no surprise it isn't working. Any ideas?

answer = ifScript();

function ifScript() {

        var result = false;

        var list = current.u_business_service_ci.toString();

        var listArr = list.split(',');

        for (var key in listArr) {

                  var bsci = new GlideRecord('cmdb_ci_service');

                  if (bsci.get(listArr[key])) {

                            var rel = new GlideRecord('cmdb_rel_ci');

                            rel.addQuery('parent', bsci.getUniqueValue());

                            rel.addQuery('type.name', "Owns::Owned by");

                            rel.addQuery('parent.sys_class_name', "cmdb_ci_service");

                            rel.query();

                            var ciIds = [];

                            if (rel.get(listArr[ciIds])) {

                                      var srv = new GlideRecord('cmdb_ci_server');

                                      if (srv.u_sox_report_related) {

                                                return true;

                                      }

                            }

                            return result;

                  }

        }

}

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I think, I got this, we are returning the result within for loop that's why, i believe return will break the for loop, can we put the return result outside of for loop and try.



answer = ifScript();



function ifScript() {


        var result = false;


        var list = current.u_business_service_ci.toString();


      gs.log('****** Business Services List **** :   ' + list);


        var listArr = list.split(',');


        for (var key=0; key < listArr.length; key++) {


                  var bsci = new GlideRecord('cmdb_ci_service');


                  if (bsci.get(listArr[key])) {


                            var rel = new GlideRecord('cmdb_rel_ci');


                            rel.addQuery('parent', bsci.getUniqueValue());


                            rel.addQuery('type.name', "Owns::Owned by");


                            rel.query();


                            while(rel.next()){


                                      var srv = new GlideRecord('cmdb_ci_win_server');


                                      if(srv.get('sys_id', rel.child)){


                                                if (srv.u_sox_report_related)


                                                          return true;


                                      }


                            }                            


                  }


        }


return result;


}


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Interesting... it results in False as well.


okay, few changes (I don't think we need to do GlideRecord on cmdb_ci_service table), Can we put some logs and see till where it flow?



function ifScript() {    


var result = false;    


var list = current.u_business_service_ci.toString();    


var listArr = list.split(',');    


for (var key in listArr) {    


var rel = new GlideRecord('cmdb_rel_ci');    


rel.addQuery('parent', listArr[key]);    


rel.addQuery('type.name', "Owns::Owned by");    


rel.query();    


while(rel.next()){


gs.log('***********Get REL RECORDS************');


var srv = new GlideRecord('cmdb_ci_server');    


if(srv.get('sys_id', rel.child)){


gs.log('***********Get SRV RECORDS************');


if (srv.u_sox_report_related == 'true' || srv.u_sox_report_related == 'false') {


gs.log('***********Found u_sox_report_related RECORDS************');


gs.log('u_sox_report_related   in IF' + u_sox_report_related );


return true;


}


else{


gs.log('***********No u_sox_report_related RECORDS************');


gs.log('u_sox_report_related   in ELSE' + u_sox_report_related );


}


}  


}    


return result;    


}    


}    


Shishir - Still returning false. I can seem to find any logs though... I went to the Workflow Context and under Workflow Log there is nothing resembling our logs in the Message. Is that right? I even tried moving the log to the very first line and nothing.


you can see the logs here.


System logs -> Script Log Statements


Ah... there was an issue but we got some logs now:


02/01/2018 03:57 PM Information ***********Get REL RECORDS************


02/01/2018 03:57 PM Information ***********Get SRV RECORDS************


02/01/2018 03:57 PM Information ***********No u_sox_report_related RECORDS************


02/01/2018 03:57 PM Information u_sox_report_related in ELSEundefined