Remove duplicates from the string variable type.

[soundarya_123]

There is a use case table with a field called 'mandate variables,' where backend variable names are added. This use case table is associated with the current catalog item. I have written a script to retrieve the variable names from the 'mandate variables' field in the use case, but it is not removing the duplicate entries from the array.

var va = '6e263fa6875e121046e3ca6e8bbb358a';

var arr = [];

var gr = new GlideRecord('u_sc_catalog_item_use_case');

gr.addQuery('u_catalog_item', va); //itemObj

gr.query();

var allMandateVariables = [];

var uniqueMandateVariables = [];

while (gr.next()) {

    var mandateVariables = gr.getValue('u_mandate_variables');

    if (mandateVariables) { // Check if mandateVariables is not empty

        allMandateVariables.push(mandateVariables);

    }

}

uniqueMandateVariables = new ArrayUtil().unique(allMandateVariables);

gs.print(uniqueMandateVariables);

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@soundarya_123 

are you in custom scope?

if yes then you should use this syntax global.ArrayUtil

If not then what came in logs? did you add that?

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[soundarya_123]

The scope is Global, I tried in the background script but the output contains all the variable names without cutting off the duplicates. The result is attached.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@soundarya_123 

try this

ArrayUtil requires array and not string

var va = '6e263fa6875e121046e3ca6e8bbb358a';

var gr = new GlideRecord('u_sc_catalog_item_use_case');
gr.addQuery('u_catalog_item', va); //itemObj
gr.query();

var allMandateVariables = [];

while (gr.next()) {
    var mandateVariables = gr.getValue('u_mandate_variables');
    if (mandateVariables) { // Check if mandateVariables is not empty
        var variablesArray = mandateVariables.split(','); // Split the string into an array
        allMandateVariables = allMandateVariables.concat(variablesArray); // Add to the main array
    }
}

var uniqueMandateVariables = new ArrayUtil().unique(allMandateVariables);
gs.print(uniqueMandateVariables);

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[Robert H]

Hello @soundarya_123 ,

Please replace this line:

allMandateVariables.push(mandateVariables);

with this:

allMandateVariables = allMandateVariables.concat(mandateVariables.split(',')); 

Reason: "mandateVariables" is a comma separated string of variable names, so you first need to split them into individual array elements before looking for duplicates.

Regards,

Robert