User Criteria and canRead

[Mathias Johans1]

Hi!

I am wondering if the "canRead()" function considers User Criteria when run on a record?

eg; I am looping through knowledge articles to populate a widget and the knowledge articles have "can_read_user_criteria" set on each article. When running "article.canRead()" on each article, is both ACL's and current user criteria evaluated?

[Mark Roethof · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

In short: No.

canRead() is just about the Access Controls. Not about the User Criteria. canRead() is only about Glide Record:
https://developer.servicenow.com/app.do#!/api_doc?v=madrid&id=r_GlideRecord-CanRead

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

Kind regards,
Mark

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[SaiRaviKiran Ak]

User criteria refers to knowledge base records that determine the users who can read or contribute to a knowledge base. User criteria definitions:

canRead  - users who can read all knowledge base articles

[Mathias Johans1]

Is it safe to assume that "$sp.canReadRecord" will check User Criteria?