Service portal - How to declare a global constant value ?

[Community Alums]

Hi community,

I'm looking for the best way to declare a shared constant (in my case, an Array) and use it within every widgets (client script) of my Service Portal.

I found an angular solution but I'm not sure it's possible in sp :

// Storing a single constant value
var app = angular.module('myApp', []);

app.constant('appName', 'My App');

// Now we inject our constant value into a test controller
app.controller('TestCtrl', ['appName', function TestCtrl(appName) {
  console.log(appName);
}]);

Thanks in advance

[chirag_bagdai]

Hi,

1. You can use rootScope to communicate between widgets, below reference links can be helpful :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcz0PixUneQ&index=7&list=PL3rNcyAiDYK3YiwkTj8OUSs_FRz-YSIw2

https://community.servicenow.com/community/develop/blog/2016/08/19/using-rootscope-to-share-data-in-...

2. You can also go for HTML5 localStorage option (not best practise)

Regards,

Chirag Bagdai

[Community Alums]

Thanks you Chirag.

I agree with you. The rootscope allows to discuss with other widgets in real time.

For my part, I'm looking for a way to declare global constants for the portal and not in a particular widget. Widgets must be independent.

I have develop a script and a dependency with the widget for shared functions and it works fine.

Now, I would like to use the same thing to declare constants and variables but I don't know how.

Any idea ?

[chirag_bagdai]

I am not sure about angular but you can try to declare constant/global variable in UI script and include that UI script in your portal theme (JS Include).

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Chirag

[iurii_raboshuk · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can add your constant directly to the Service Portal's main module in your portal's theme JS Include like this:

angular.module("sn.$sp").constant("appName", "My App");

After that appName becomes available for injection in your application. You can use it in all controllers and other functions that support dependency injection in Angular.

Regards,

Iurii