Get the role of the user who requested a catalog item inside the script of a workflow

[Smith Johnson]

Hello all,

I would like to know how I could get the user's role inside the following script. 

For example, a user with role "snc_internal" requests a catalog item. I want in the following script to check if the user's role is snc_internal or snc_external. In the first case "yes" will be returned, while in the second case "no" will be returned.

How can I put this logic into the workflow if script?

Thank you in advance,

Smith.

[mr18]

Hi Smith,

Try below code in the script

var grRole = new GlideRecord('sys_user_has_role');
grRole.addQuery('user', current.requested_for);
grRole.addQuery('role', 'sysID of snc_internal role');
grRole.query();
if(grRole.next()){
return 'yes';

  } else {

  return 'no';
}

[Yash Agrawal1]

Hello Simth,

If you want to get the logged in user name inside any worlflow script then use the below code.

var user=gs.getUserId();//gs. is an object and getUserId is menthod which hold the sys id of logged in user.
if gs.hasRole('snc_internal'))//hasrole check that the user has that role or not.
return true;
else
return false;

 Please keep posted for more help

Regards

Yash Agrawal

[Willem]

You can try:

answer = ifScript();

function ifScript() {
    if (gs.hasRole('snc_internal', 'snc_external')) {
        return 'yes';
    }
    return 'no';
}

[Willem · Accepted solution]

If you want to have a different user then the logged in user, you can use:

(example below is when workflow is on request item, use the current request requested for, you can change this to use the field you want to use as user)

answer = ifScript();

function ifScript() {
    var userObject = gs.getUser().getUserByID(current.request.requested_for);
    if (userObject.roles.indexOf('snc_internal') != -1 || userObject.roles.indexOf('snc_external') !=-1) {
        return 'yes';
    }
    return 'no';
}

or:

answer = ifScript();

function ifScript() {
    var userObject = gs.getUser().getUserByID(current.request.requested_for);
    if (userObject.hasRole('snc_internal','snc_external')) {
        return 'yes';
    }
    return 'no';
}