@mention Notification Issue

Linda_G
Kilo Sage

@Allen Andreas Good morning, I'm having an issue with the @mention Notification in ServiceNow.  We have users that are trying to @mention users in comments in the additional comments field in SCTasks and the emails are not being sent.

There was another question where you answered that it could be many things, but to check to see if the user was active, had notifications active and the OOB @mention Notification had not been changed.  I've looked at all of your suggestions and i'm still having the issue.  Any other ideas/suggestions?

Thank you,

Linda

 

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Hi,

We'd want to focus on sys_email (as mentioned above) and "before" records, specifically.

When you use the mention feature, the name would show up for selection:

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and then the name gets put in a bracket, like so:

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If you're saying that you received the notification and it was on the sc_task table, then all of this research about checking for that table to be blocked from them sending is irrelevant. If you're also saying that when other users use the mention feature it doesn't work like it's supposed to, that would have been nice to know in the beginning...heh...because then we're talking about completely different issues and it has nothing to do with the notification not sending or why we'd focus there.

If they are seeing messages about not seeing the record, etc. then they may not have appropriate "read" rights to see the user's information.

Please check the system property for: glide.ui.mentions.check_record_visibility

and the mentioning actually causes an impersonation event to trigger. If your instance is set to now allow that to happen, then the cannot see record will appear.

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@Allen Andreas it's absolutely a permissions thing, the user didn't have access to see the ticket, thus it wasn't going to send them an email if they weren't associated.  This particular user, while she was listed in the variable as a manager, was not the one that opened the request nor was she the requested for.

Sorry for not marking the replies as helpful sooner.. I was trying to figure this out and balancing other issues as well.  I do appreciate all the help that you and Musab provided.  

Hi,

Ok, great. Glad you looked into it more.

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I'm all set, thanks again.

Hi,

Ok, sounds good.

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Linda_G
Kilo Sage

@Musab Rasheed 

OK, here is the ng_activity_mention_body script (my apologies i'm new to scripting, i didn't see anything obvious leaving out sc_task)

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The script includes looks to still be OOB

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These are the only business rules for the sc_task table.

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@Allen Andreas 

So to clarify, you've reviewed your mention notification and checked the condition field (script and settings) and all that within the "when to send" tab and no issues are there? Yes sir.

There are two scripts, when i look at the scripts.  One is just above in this reply, the other is a branding script.

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So you've impersonated the test user and checked their user preferences to ensure they have notifications active as well as have a channel (email channel) slid on? Yes sir.

Have you tested with other users? Can you try with impersonating someone, then mentioning yourself, if all your settings are correct?I did test this by impersonating someone else and tagging me and it says the email was sent.  Still waiting to receive it.

You're saying the very same user can be mentioned in an incident, for example, and they get that notification? Yes sir, they actually created a different notification to handle Incidents for some reason.