How to get yesterday date

[Yair2]

Hi all,

I have Scheduled script which creates Event when date field maches to todays date, the event triggers notification.

So far works good, but now the demand is to fire the event 1 before the due date, what i need to change in my script to make it work ?

var currentdate = new GlideDate();
currentdate.getByFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
gs.info(currentdate);
var gr = new GlideRecord("u_business_management_task");
gr.addEncodedQuery("u_target_dateISNOTEMPTY");
gr.query();

while(gr.next()){
if((currentdate) == (gr.u_target_date)){
//gs.info("in the if case");
gs.eventQueue('business.managment.task.due.date',gr,gr.u_assigned_to,gr.u_number);
}
}

[Mark Roethof · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

Have a look at this docs page:
https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/newyork-application-development/page/app-store/dev_portal/API_ref...

It has multiple examples about .addDays(-1)

Not tested, but below might already work:

var currentdate = new GlideDateTime();
currentdate.addDays(-1);

If my answer helped you in any way, please then mark it as helpful.

Kind regards,
Mark

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[Mark Roethof]

Other way might be to rethink your code. You could do the date check already within the .addEncodedQuery. I don't really see why you would do a GlideRecord query, going thru all results, and then checking if the date matches? Why not already in the query?

Just build the query on a List, and copy the query. If unfamiliar with this, read this article I wrote a few weeks ago.
https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_article&sys_id=2757d97fdb2b7f84feb1a851ca961...

If my answer helped you in any way, please then mark it as helpful.

Kind regards,
Mark

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