Copying bookmarks to another user's profile

[alliej428]

Hi-

Is there a way to copy over bookmarks from one user's profile to another?   I've looked but haven't found a way to do so, and I'm not sure if this is possible.

Thanks!

[aswinsiddaling2]

On what condition do you want a user's bookmarks to some other user and to which user is should be copied?

Thanks and Regards,

Aswin Siddalingam

[alliej428]

We have different groups of support members that we're looking to have a default set of bookmarks, and I'm trying to see if what we're after is possible.

[Peter de Bock1]

Hi there,

I had exactly the same requirement at my customer. So I have created a Fix Script which copies and/or updates Bookmarks from an User to a set of Users. I attached the Fix Script.

If you like it 🙂  please mark my response as helpful

regards, Peter

// Cloning Favorites (Bookmarks) of an User
// Note: Existing bookmarks will be updated based upon the Bookmark title

// Input
var UserFrom= "df2acc0fdb10470056d57e400f96191d"; // Set the sys_id of the User to clone the Bookmarks from
var UsersTo= ["c997c007db10470056d57e400f961919","5f2acc0fdb10470056d57e400f96193c","0ce92383dbad0380e823bc2ffe961987"]; // Set the sys_id's of the Users to clone the Bookmarks to

var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
if (gr.get(UserFrom)) {
	var grBook = new GlideRecord('sys_ui_bookmark');
	grBook.addEncodedQuery('user=df2acc0fdb10470056d57e400f96191d');
	grBook.query();
	gs.log('Start cloning bookmarks from ' + gr.name,'Cloning Favorites (Bookmarks)');
	while (grBook.next()){
		var x;
		
		for (x in UsersTo){
			
			
			//Verify upon existence. Update when already exist
			var grBookCheck = new GlideRecord('sys_ui_bookmark');
			grBookCheck.addEncodedQuery('user='+UsersTo[x]+'^title='+grBook.title);
			grBookCheck.query();
			if (grBookCheck.next()){
				
				grBookCheck.url = grBook.url;
				grBookCheck.order = grBook.order;
				grBookCheck.update();
				gs.log('Bookmark ' +grBook.title + ' updated from ' + gr.name + ' to ' + grBookCheck.user.name,'Cloning Favorites (Bookmarks)');
			} else {
				
				grBook.user = UsersTo[x];
				grBook.insert();
				gs.log('Bookmark ' +grBook.title + ' cloned from ' + gr.name + ' to ' + grBook.user.name,'Cloning Favorites (Bookmarks)');
			}
		}
	}
	gs.log('End cloning bookmarks from ' + gr.name,'Cloning Favorites (Bookmarks)');
	
	
}

[Community Alums]

This is a very useful script!  

I would suggest one small change though.  There is a sys_id hard-coded in the encoded query at line 11.  I would suggest changing it to reference the UserFrom variable, so that the script dynamically updates that query.

Before:   grBook.addEncodedQuery('user=df2acc0fdb10470056d57e400f96191d');

After:     grBook.addEncodedQuery('user=' + UserFrom); 

[Marcin Kroszel]

Hi (3y later),

is there any way to copy the image (icon) of each bookmark as well?

grBookCheck.image = grBook.image;

doesn't work.