Variable visible only to people in certain groups?

[Sandy7]

Hello,

I recently asked this question and got some feedback but unfortunately I still cannot get this to work so I am reaching out again..

Hello,

I have a catalog item and I am trying to make a variable (request_type) visible only when the logged in user is part of a specific group (Senior Director Enterprise Group). 

I have tried doing this using a script includes as well as an on-load client script. I will post my code for both below. However, this is not working. 

Here is the script include (I have client callable selected):

var validateMember = Class.create();
validateMember.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, {

    validateLoggedUserGroup: function() {
           return gs.getUser().isMemberOf('97209ba71bad5d58142dc9192a4bcbff');
    },

    type: 'validateMember'
});

Here is the Client Script (I have tried request_type multiple different ways (request_type'; I also tied ('request_type')..

function onLoad() {
     var ga = new GlideAjax('validateMember');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'validateLoggedUserGroup');
    ga.getXML(checkGroups);
}


 function checkGroups(response) {
        var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");
        var variablesToHide = ('request_type'); // Enter your variable backend Name which you want to hide
        
if(answer == 'false')//If logged in user IS NOT part of the group
{
            for (var i = 0; i < variablesToHide.length; i++) {
                g_form.setDisplay(variablesToHide[i], false);
            }
 }   

    }

Any idea how to make this work? thanks everyone!

[AnirudhKumar · Accepted solution]

ok, If the answer variable is giving true when the user is part of the group and vice versa then 90% of the job is done. Lets try few more things, patience pls 🙂

1. Replace

var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");

with

var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer").toString();

2. Verify the back-end name of the Request Type field (request_type).

3. Try 

g_form.setDisplay('request_type', 'false'); //false with quotes

[Sandy7]

Thank you!!! this works perfectly! I think another issue was I had that field set to Mandatory - so once I removed that and replaced it with this code it works!

thanks again. you rock. 

[Mahendra RC]

Hello Sandy,

Please use below code:

function onLoad() {
     var ga = new GlideAjax('validateMember');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'validateLoggedUserGroup');
    ga.getXML(checkGroups);
}


 function checkGroups(response) {
        var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");
        var variablesToHide = ["request_type"]; // Enter your variable backend Name which you want to hide
        
if(answer == 'false')//If logged in user IS NOT part of the group
{
            for (var i = 0; i < variablesToHide.length; i++) {
                g_form.setDisplay(variablesToHide[i], false);
            }
 }   

    }

Please mark my respsone as helpful/correct, if it answer your question.

Thanks

[Sandy7]

Hello, 
thanks for your help. I tried this and it didn't work. ANything else you can think of?

thanks