Type field in sys_ui_element table?

[Anil20]

What is the use of type field in sys_ui_element table?

Can anyone please help?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi Anil,

It tells what type of element it is.

for normal fields the type will be empty;

it will be populated when begin split, split, end split etc is being added on the form layout.

other types as well such as annotation

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Thanks
Ankur

[Anil20]

Sorry but I can't catch you. What is the significance of formatter type?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi Anil,

Not sure on this; but this is internal to ServiceNow and hence no documentation you would find.

Regards

Ankur

[Oleg]

The type field of sys_ui_element table provides ServiceNow information how the element field should be interpreted.

For example, if the type=formatter, then the content of Element filed should be interpreted as UI Macro with Jelly code of formatter, displayed on the form. Mostly common used formatters are activity.xml, which displays Commens and Work Notes, and process_flow.xml, which displays Process Flow on top Change Request for example.

Other values of type, for example, type=annotation or type=chart contains sys_id of record from another table (Form Annotation [sys_ui_annotation] in case if type=annotation, Form Chart [sys_ui_chart] in case of type=chart and so on), which contains details of displayed element (annotation or chart).