Hide UI button from backend but not portal

[vidhya_mouli]

I have a UI button on a form which I want to hide in the backend but not in the portal. How to do this?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@vidhya_mouli 

add this and it will work

add the portal name instead of sp and add the table name instead of incident

gs.action.getGlideURI().toString().indexOf('/sp') != -1 && gs.action.getGlideURI().toString().indexOf('incident.do') == -1

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@vidhya_mouli 

Hope you are doing good.

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[Paul Kunze]

Hi, you need to check the current URL and determine from that if you are in the Portal or not. If you are using the default Service Portal "sp" then you can check for "/sp". But to make it more generic and re-usable I would suggest the following approach.

All backend pages look like this: page.do -> So you can check if your current URL contains the .do or not.

Here is the script:

var currentUrl = gs.action.getGlideURI().toString(); 
// example value for the backend: incident_list.do?sysparm_view=ess
// example value for the portal: sp?id=my_requests

var currentPage = currentUrl.split('\\?')[0];
// example value for the backend: incident_list.do
// example value for the portal: sp

if(currentPage.endsWith('.do')){
	gs.info('The script was executed in the backend. Hiding the UI Action.');
} else {
	gs.info('The script was executed in the portal. Showing the UI Action.');
}

[vidhya_mouli]

Thank you and where will this script go?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@vidhya_mouli 

add this and it will work

add the portal name instead of sp and add the table name instead of incident

gs.action.getGlideURI().toString().indexOf('/sp') != -1 && gs.action.getGlideURI().toString().indexOf('incident.do') == -1

If my response helped please mark it correct and close the thread so that it benefits future readers.