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how will you generate a new sys_id by scripting in servicenow?

rohan patil2 — Sun, 23 May 2021 05:38:50 GMT

how will you generate a new sys_id by scripting in servicenow?

and What are the different ways to do so?

Ankur Bawiskar — Sun, 23 May 2021 05:48:22 GMT

Hi,

you can use newRecord() method to generate sys_id from script

Remember unless you insert the record it won't be available in the table

var rec = new GlideRecord('incident');
rec.newRecord();
gs.info(rec.sys_id);

Regards
Ankur

AnirudhKumar — Sun, 23 May 2021 06:09:17 GMT

In addition to Ankur's newRecord() function, you can also use the below code(Used in server side) :

gs.generateGUID()

To get the sys id of a record that is about to be created on the client side, you can use:

g_form.getUniqueValue();

Ankur Bawiskar — Sun, 23 May 2021 13:59:43 GMT

@rohan patil

I could see you marked my response as correct earlier but now it is not.

You can mark only 1 response as correct.

Please mark appropriate response as correct and helpful so that it benefits other members.

Regards
Ankur