Problem with gs.getUser().getRecord().getDisplayValue() when comparing in array

adriantan08 · ‎08-05-2019

Hi, Guys.

I stumbled upon this interesting observation.

So when I did this:

var t = ["Finance", "Sales"];

var t1 = gs.getUser().getRecord().getDisplayValue('department');

gs.log(t.indexOf(t1));

this will always evaluate to -1. It's very odd because doing a simple == comparison returns true (i.e. t1 == "Finance").

Please let me know if there's just something I'm missing - could even be a something I'm missing in basic javascript.

Ankur Bawiskar · ‎08-05-2019

Hi Adrian,

are you trying to search the department value into that array then do this;

indexOf doesn't work properly on array in servicenow; instead use ArrayUtil ServiceNow class

var t = ["Finance","Sales"];

var t1 = gs.getUser().getRecord().getDisplayValue('department');

var arrUtil = new ArrayUtil();

var val = arrUtil.indexOf(t, t1);

gs.info(val);

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Ankur

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Ankur
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vkachineni · ‎08-05-2019

Try gs.log(t.toString().indexOf(t1));

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adriantan08 · ‎08-06-2019

ah, that's it. thanks for all the responses!