What is mean current.isNew()

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What is mean current.isNew()？

What is mean current.isNew() and current.isNewRecord()?

[AbhishekGardade]

Hello SS,

isNewRecord() basically says "The information you are looking at hasn't been saved to the database yet.", not "This is a brand new record saved to the database."

isNewRecord() validates true if its validated _before_ insert into the db.

isValidRecord() validates if the record exists in the table (gr) - this can evaluate false even though a given record is not new (is inserted)

I dont think so there is any function called isNew().

We have following functions available:

current.newRecord()

Thanks,
Abhishek Gardade

[Priyanka Chandr]

Hi,

isNewRecord()

Determines whether the current record has been inserted into the database. This method returns true only if the newRecord() method has been called. This method is useful for scripted ACL, and in the condition of UI actions, but should not be used in background scripts.

Note: This method returns true for any new record during a business rule, or if the newRecord() method is used to initialize a record with default values and a unique ID (sys_id). In all other cases, it returns false.

Return:

Type	Description
Boolean	True if the current record is new (has not been inserted into the database.)

Example

 answer = gs.hasRole("filter_admin") || current.isNewRecord()

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Thanks,

[Bhagyashri Sort]

Hi, 

isNewRecord() determines whether the current record has been inserted into the database. This method returns true only if the newRecord() method has been called. This method is useful for scripted ACL, and in the condition of UI actions, but should not be used in background scripts.

This method returns true for any new record during a business rule, or if the newRecord() method is used to initialize a record with default values and a unique ID (sys_id). In all other cases, it returns false.

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Thanks

Bhagyashri Sorte.

[Mark Roethof]

Hi there,

Don't actually know of a current.isNew. Do know about a current.isNewRecord().

Can you explain how/where you came up with current.isNew()? Did you find it somewhere in your instance?

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

Kind regards,
Mark
2020 ServiceNow Community MVP
2020 ServiceNow Developer MVP

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