Need to add a catalog item field in Topic content widget

[suuriyas]

HI Community,

In Topic content widget i need to display a custom field from catalog item table in it.

How to do that help me with server side script and html. 

[kaushal_snow]

Hi @suuriyas ,

If you want to display a custom field from a catalog item inside a Topic content widget, you can in your widget server script fetch the catalog item record (e.g. using sc_cat_item and $sp.getParameter('sys_id')) and put the custom field value into data, then in your client controller use c.server.get(...) to retrieve it and in your HTML template simply render {{ c.data.<custom_field> }} (assuming ACLs allow read access) , this pattern is based on common ServiceNow techniques for exposing non default catalog item fields in portal widgets.....

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[RaghavSh]

@suuriyas Do you want to customise the widget?

Topic Content is OOB "employee center" scoped widget which cannot be edited without being cloned.

Cloning means you will have to the add the cloned widget to OOB portal pages which are using the using this widget and also other widgets which are calling this widget.

This can lead to a major customisation and is not recommended as this will have high changes of code break in upgrades and will get flagged in Health scan.

Please mark the answer correct/helpful accordingly.

[RaghavSh]

@suuriyas Did this answer your query?

[suuriyas]

HI @RaghavSh ,

Thanks for replying 

Yes we have already done some minor customization on topic content widget we cloned that and updated as "topic content updated" and used that in portal.

But now i'm struck with how to display/add my field in that widget