Unable to find gs.action documentation

[jraki]

I would like to know which object is returned by the call "gs.action" or "gs.action.getGlideURI()" to understand what I can do with such objects, but I cannot find any documentation about these calls. I just discovered some calls examples in the community. Can anyone please let me know where I can find a documentation about "gs.action".

[Goran WitchDoc]

Sadly there isn't any official documentation about it. Otherwise it would show up on developer.servicenow.com

This is about what I know: What is "gs.action"?

//Göran

[jraki]

Thanks a lot Goran for your answer. I could never imagine that "gs.action" could have all these available calls without having them in the official API documentation.

[Raymond Ferguso]

It looks like they may have documented it over the past four years.

https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/orlando/server/no-namespace/ActionAPIBoth

As near as I can tell, gs.action is the same as the globally (or top of scope) var "action" that is set under some conditions when the user triggers an action, usually via a button. Most likely, if you have a gs.action, there is probably also an action. And if you are expecting gs.action in a business rule, you are likely throwing a null pointer error when it doesn't.

gs.action.getGlideURI() would be the same thing as action.getGlideURI() in those cases, and when an action is not underway, you would throw a null point back into the invoking rhino / java.

Typically what people seem to want is either new GlideURI() which returns the same thing as gs.action.getGlideURI() or just action within the context of a scripted ui action.