Is it possible to get Previous URL in ServiceNow?

[Suresh1]

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to get previous page URL ? Basically we have a scenario. We have a table say 'problem' and have a related list as 'incident' table. So, if i click on one of related incident it goes to incident table. Here can we get that previous URL / Page belongs to problem record?

We have gs.action.getGlideURI().toString()  which will give current page URL only but cannot give previous page URL.

Let me know if this is feasible.

Thanks,
Suresh

[Willem · Accepted solution]

You can try:

GlideSession.get().getStack().bottom();

This will return something like:

[Willem]

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[Suresh1]

Hi All,

I just used a boolean field on a table and set it when i visit the page this has solved my requirement.

Thanks,
Suresh

[Eric Medina]

I created this function which will give you back the URL that is second from the top of the stack. Unfortunately, it's not 100% accurate at getting the previous page if the user is browsing ServiceNow in multiple tabs/windows at the same time but it works well enough for my use case.

function getPreviousURL() {
	var stack = GlideSession.get().getStack();
	var topOfStack = stack.pop();
	var previousURL = stack.pop();
	stack.push(previousURL);
	stack.push(topOfStack);
	return previousURL;
}