Auto populate Manager in reference field

[Mohammed Amine1]

Hi,

How can I auto populate a reference variable in a catalog Item field using a Catalog client script?

I want to display the manager of the current logged user.

I already managed to display the current logged user info.

This is the begining of the script : 

function onLoad() {

    g_form.setValue('current_user', g_user.userID);
    g_form.setValue('current_user_manager',     .....     );

}

Thanks for any help.

[Mayu]

We can set default value in reference field of manager variable .

In default section add Javascript:gs.getUser().getManagerID() ; 

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[Pavankumar_1]

Hi @Mohammed Amine1 ,

If you want to achieve it with only Client script then use below onload script and script include will work.

1. Onload catalog client script:

function onLoad() {
    var ga = new GlideAjax('getUserLineManager');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_name', "getManager");
    ga.getXMLAnswer(function(answer) {
        g_form.setValue("manager", answer);//give your manager variable
    });

}

2. Script include. check Client callable true

var getUserLineManager = Class.create();
getUserLineManager.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, {

    getManager: function() {
        var mgr = new GlideRecord("sys_user");
        mgr.addQuery("sys_id", gs.getUserID());//check with logged in user
        mgr.query();
        if (mgr.next()) {
            return mgr.manager.toString();
        }
    },
    type: 'getUserLineManager'
});

screenshots:

Client script:

Script Include:

[Mohammed Amine1]

Very helpful - Thank you Pavankumar4 

[Ashish04]

Hi Mohammad,

we can achieve this scenario in two ways.

1. In default section add javascript:gs.getUser().getManagerID();

2. display business rule using scratchpad and ,client script

var user = gs.getUser();
var manager = user.manager;
g_scratchpad.manager = manager;
In your client script as below

function onLoad() {
var manager = g_scratchpad.manager;
g_form.setValue('Reference field name' , manager);
}

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Warm Regards

Ashish

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Mohammed Amine1 

no scripting is required.

you can use the feature of Catalog Lookup definition

Catalog Data Lookup Definition on any table, eliminating Catalog Client Scripting 

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