Is there a way to hide/show a variable based on the current user's group?

[jonb]

I am needing to hide a variable (that is part of a variable set), unless the current user is a member of a certain group... is this possible?

[Community Alums · Accepted solution]

Jon,

I finally figured this out, as it was bugging me. One of the things that helps when troubleshooting is using 'Scripts->Background' (you need to have elevated security). I ran a bunch of script tests in Background and realized you can't just pass a string to 'isMemberOf()', it needs to be an object.

As an example, this does not work:

var user = 'fd5c7b034f4c020093bd7d218110c7ee';
if (user.isMemberOf('Service Desk')) {
gs.print(true); 
} else {
gs.print(false);
}

It always evaluates to false.

This does work, though:

var ourUser = gs.getUser().getUserByID('fd5c7b034f4c020093bd7d218110c7ee');
if (ourUser.isMemberOf('Service Desk')) {
gs.print(true); 
} else {
gs.print(false);
}

This evaluates to true.

So, I modified the script include:

isGrpMember : function() {
   var userID = this.getParameter('sysparm_userID');
   var groupName = this.getParameter('sysparm_groupName');
   var thisUser = gs.getUser().getUserByID(userID);
   //gs.log("TM ===> " + thisUser + " | " + groupName, "Q: isGrpMember Ajax"); 
   if (thisUser.isMemberOf(groupName)) {
   return true; 
   } else {
   return false;
   }

   },

Client script:

function onLoad() {
   //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below
   var ga = new GlideAjax('MyAjaxUtils');
   ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'isGrpMember');
   ga.addParam('sysparm_userID', g_user.userID);
   ga.addParam('sysparm_groupName', 'Service Desk');
   ga.getXML(hideField); 

   // Callback function to process the response returned from the server
   function hideField(response) {
   var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");
   alert(answer);
   if (answer == 'false') {
   g_form.setDisplay('field4', false);
   } 

   }

}

This worked for me on a test catalogue item with some fields. Hopefully this works for you as well. I added the 'sysparm_groupName' to make it a little more re-usable; instead of specifying the group in the script include, you can reuse the function in multiple client scripts with different groups passed to the script.

I found this article which had a similar example which someone noted did not work:

ismemberOf question

Anyways, hope that helps!

Cheers,

Tim

[jonb]

This worked perfectly!!! Thank you!!!