Glide ajax or Display BR?

[prasanna11]

Which is the best way to go about in accessing server side information from a form level.

(I am trying to find the better way among these two to access the parent record values on the child record on a form level).

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi Prasanna,

They are used for two different, but similar, things.

GlideAjax is typically used with onChange clients scripts for dynamic updates (e.g. something changed, I need to update the form from the server.)

g_scratchpad is used to push once on load - that's it. There is no refreshing afterwards.

Client Script Best Practices - ServiceNow Wiki

[Anurag Tripathi · Accepted solution]

Id say glideAjax as it can be based on the need, onload of a field, onchange of a field, called from a ui action, can be called anytime after the form has loaded....on demand basically.

But Display Br will run on form load only and will run on each form load.

So i think we have a clear winner here --> GlideAjax

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi Anurag,

g_scratchpad is still very useful when you just need a "load once" scenario. It's far easier to set up (for most) than GlideAjax.

[Anurag Tripathi]

I know, may be i didnt explain well. But that's what i tried to convey in my previous post 'Display Br will run on form load only and will run on each form load'