Using setPreference to set system

[Brendan Hallida]

Hi all,

With the holidays upon us, I am using the downtime to automate some of the more tedious tasks.   I am currently working on the after clone work, as this is something I had previously neglected and grinded.

On our Dev instance, we have a specific theme which I would like to script to be set to default after the clone.

I have found the following function, which works well and sets my user preference to 'test'.

gs.getUser().setPreference("glide.css.theme.ui16", "test");

What I would like to do, is set the system property.

Are we able to do this with Java Script?

Cheers,

Brendan

[The SN Nerd · Accepted solution]

Write a System Clone Cleanup Script to

• Delete all existing preferences
• Create a system level preference for your DEV theme

//Delete all user preferences
var grUserPreference = new GlideRecord('sys_user_preference');
grUserPreference.addQuery('name','glide.css.theme.ui16');
grUserPreference.addQuery('system',false);
grUserPreference.deleteMultiple();

//Set system wide user preference
grUserPreference = new GlideRecord('sys_user_preference');
grUserPreference.addQuery('name','glide.css.theme.ui16');
grUserPreference.addQuery('system',true);
grUserPreference.query();
if( grUserPreference.next() ) {
       grUserPreference.value = 'test';
       grUserPreference.update();
}

[Brendan Hallida]

Hiya Paul,

Wow, thanks for that.   Works a treat with the background scripts, so i'm confident it will work

Cheers,

Brendan