HRM vs HRJ Widgets

[cwillard]

Hello, 

I am working on our portal preparing for the Utah upgrade and I noticed we currently use the HRJ widgets on our HR Case overview page, but there are also HRM widgets that seem to do the same thing but have a better UI. We are using the EC Theme.

What is the difference between these widgets? Is it better to use one over the other? 

[Community Alums]

Hi @cwillard ,

Technically, both works together or you can say HRJ can be used inside HRM.

In short, you can by creating an Employee form. By creating a new HR Task of HR Task type "Collect Employee input" you can select the Employee form you want:

That will then be presented to the assigned to in the HRM To-do widget.

Technical longer explanation:

It is loaded in the to-do app via:

• HRM To-do contains the "To-dos task Line Item"-widget
• It will get the tasks that are to-do and their mapping to widget via the "todoPageUtils"-script include.
• The "todoPageUtils"-script include contains the function "_getWidgetMappings" which gets the mapping from the "sn_hr_sp_todos_widget_mapping"-table.
• In that table we find entries for HR Task:
• "HRM Task Activity"-widget calls "hr_TaskTicket"-script include. We are looking for the collect_information as that is the one containing a survey:

if (gr.hr_task_type == 'collect_Information'){
				task.employee_form = {};
				task.employee_form.id = gr.getValue('employee_form');
				task.employee_form.form_definition = gr.getElement('employee_form.form_definition');
				task.employee_form.survey_instance = gr.getValue('survey_instance');
				task.employee_form.table_Name = gr.getElement('employee_form.table')+'';
				task.employee_form.condition = gr.getElement('employee_form.condition')+'';
			}

• The "HRM Task Activity"-widget in line 21 gets the widget for the specific task:

data.widget = $sp.getWidget(getTaskWidgetId('hrj-task-'), taskOptions);
				if(!data.widget.sys_id)
					data.widget = $sp.getWidget(getTaskWidgetId('hr-task-'), taskOptions);

To learn more , read the thread : https://www.servicenow.com/community/hrsd-forum/hrj-task-take-survey-widget/m-p/1283847

[Amit Gujarathi · Accepted solution]

Hi @cwillard ,
I trust you are doing great.
Please find the diffrence as given below :

Feature HRM Widget HRJ Widget

Widget Type	AngularJS	Jelly
Data Sources	ServiceNow tables	XML files
User Interface	Modern and intuitive	Limited customization
Configuration	Limited	Highly configurable
Performance	Slower due to AJAX	Faster due to caching
Integration	Limited	Highly integrated
Code Example	<sp-widget widget="hrm-case-list"></sp-widget>	<j:jelly xmlns:j="jelly:core">...</j:jelly>