What will gs.getUserID() return ?

[Amarendra]

What will gs.getUserID() return in case the requester of a task replies a "pending-customer action" notification email sent from the system ?

[Community Alums]

My understanding is that the incoming email's from: address is searched for in the sys_user table, and if found, that is the user that is used as the current user. If they are not there, the inbound email may not be processed.

[Sruthi M]

Hi Chuck,

I used gs.getUserID() in a script action attachment.read and it is returning 'System' as the current user logged in.

I need to log who viewed the attachment in work notes of an incident. But it is returning as if system viewed/downloaded the attachment with whoever I impersonate.

Is there another way to call the current user logged in.

[User550590]

The links are currently broken.

[-O-]

Currently valid links:

• gs.getUserID(): returns the sys_id of the current user.
• gs.getUser(): returns a reference to the user object for the current user.

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