Service Catalog Builder

[sunnyt1]

Does anyone have  any idea how Client Script Page in Catalog Builder fetching the sys_id of catalog item? If you see this page filters the records based on the current catalog item which is being edited in Catalog builder.

[Rafael Batistot]

Hi @sunnyt1 

May you try via reference qualifier:

javascript:'cat_item='+current.cat_item;

https://www.servicenow.com/community/itsm-forum/how-to-get-the-sys-id-of-a-catalog-item-using-the-re...

[sunnyt1]

Hi @Rafael Batistot ,

Thanks for your response, but I am talking about "Client Script List" page macroponent.

[Rafael Batistot]

@sunnyt1 

Thanks for specification 

In Catalog Builder, the Client Script List page macroponent doesn’t fetch the sys_id by itself, it gets it from the page context.

When you open a catalog item in Catalog Builder, the framework passes the current record’s sys_id into the page as a URL parameter (e.g. ?sys_id=<item_sys_id>) and makes it available in the page state. The Client Script List macroponent is configured to read that context variable (sys_id) and apply it as a filter on the catalog client script table (sc_cat_item_client_script).

So the flow is:

• Catalog Builder opens the item → injects the item sys_id into the page.
• The Client Script List macroponent reads the sys_id from page properties (state.sys_id).
• It uses that value in the filter condition (something like cat_item=<sys_id>).
• The list then shows only the client scripts tied to that catalog item.

[sunnyt1]

In this scenario, they are getting data from "field" property and then setting state. So I want to know how they are populating this "field" property in page.