how to use gel in servicenow

[shank1]

Hi all,

I wanted to know how to make use of gel in servicenow.

Some of the lines I have come across:

1.
com = gel("activity-stream-comments-textarea");
	if (com)
		com.focus();
	return;

2. gel('sysparm_item_guid').value

so I wanted to know what are those values "activity-stream-comments-textarea" and ''sysparm_item_guid'"

how and where those values can be found and used.

any other simple example to make use of gel would be greatly helpful

thanks in advance 🙂

[shank1]

One last question on this topic:

I see this line written :

var sys=document.getElementById('sysparm_attachment_cart_id').value;

How can I know what is that field "sysparm_attachment_cart_id" (reverse way 🙂 )

[shank1]

@paul.curwen did you get a chance to look at my question 🙂

[rahulpandey]

Hi Shanks,

What is the use case you are trying to pull out the reverse way here ?

In short it is not feasible because uneven element architecture and because of the fact, it may not be even a form element(hidden field like guid). 

[DaveJ1]

Hi Paul

The first link you posted no longer works (no surprise, it's been years).
However, The ServiceNow documentation uses gel in their dot walking example in their own documentation.
https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/rome-platform-user-interface/page/use/navigation/reference/dot-walking-examples.html

Been there since New York.

Also, I just used it in a Catalog Client script. I had to add the Isolate script field to the form and uncheck it first, to use it.

Thanks for your insights,

Dave

[shank1]

Thanks Paul, that is what I was looking for until now. 🙂