How to determine if you are in Workspace in a Client Script

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I'm currently in the process of setting up Agent Workspace to allow users to work on Incidents. We have a number of custom client scripts that run on Incident that i need to configure to work correctly in workspace. Is there a way to determine which UI you are in? I know there is the GlideURI server-side api which i could use to pull apart the uri to determine i'm in workspace but was wondering if there is anything on the client-side i could use? window.location.href doesn't work in workspace either...

[Ankur Bawiskar]

you can use the workaround I provided.

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Ankur

[JaspervanM]

Recently have been working on this in regards to the SOW so figured it'd be worth updating on this in case people come across it.

You can get the view in a client sided script by getting g_form.getViewName();

Here's an example:

var view = g_form.getViewName();
if (view == "sow" || view = "sow_new_record") {
// Put necessary code here
}

However, at least for the SOW this was not reliable as not every table has a SOW specific view.
Therefor using top.location.href is more reliable at detecting the SOW or other modern workspaces.

Example:

var inSOW = false;

//check url for SOW
var url = top.location.href;
//indexOf returns a numeric value, -1 is not found
if (url.indexOf('/now/sow/') != -1) {
    inSOW = true;
} 

if (inSOW) {
//Put necessary code here
}

I hope this additional information is helpful to anyone!

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@smeadows 

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Regards
Ankur

[Abhishek Bera]

There is a variable "g_aw" which is only present in the workspace env.

So 

typeof g_aw !== "undefined"  -> true in workspace

tyepof g_aw === "undefined" -> for platform/ native UI

Hope this helps! 

[Fabian10]

I think there's a better way to check if you're in a workspace.

The g_aw API is only availabe in Worspaces, so you can check for that.

https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/washingtondc/client/GlideAgentWorkspaceAPI?n...

if (typeof g_aw != 'undefined') {
console.log('workspace');
} else {
console.log('not in a workspace');
}