Create GetAllChildRolesRecursive.js

Author: Noah-Drew

Server-Side Components/Background Scripts/Get All Child Roles/GetAllChildRolesRecursive.js

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+// You can set this to a role name or the Sys ID of the "sys_user_role" record
+var roleNameOrSysId = "itil";
+var result = getFullRoleHierarchyList(roleNameOrSysId);
+
+// This is just to print out the results. Remove this when you want to use it
+for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
+	gs.info(result[i]);
+}
+
+function getFullRoleHierarchyList(roleNameOrSysID) {
+
+	var roleSysID = "";
+	var grRole = new GlideRecord("sys_user_role");
+	grRole.addEncodedQuery("name=" + roleNameOrSysID + "^ORsys_id=" + roleNameOrSysID);
+	grRole.query();
+	while(grRole.next()) {
+		roleSysID = grRole.getUniqueValue();
+	}
+
+	if (!roleSysID) {
+		gs.warn("Role entered does not exist.")
+		return;
+	}
+
+	var obj = getChildRoles({}, roleSysID, "", "role", "contains");
+	var arr = [];
+	for (var key in obj) {
+		arr.push(obj[key].display);
+	}
+	return arr;
+}
+
+function getChildRoles(found, queryId, display, queryField, getField) {
+	if (!queryId || found.hasOwnProperty(queryId))
+		return;
+
+	if (display) {
+		found[queryId] = {display: display};
+		direct = false;
+	}
+	var gr = new GlideRecord("sys_user_role_contains");
+	gr.addEncodedQuery(queryField + "=" + queryId);
+	gr.query();
+	while(gr.next()) {
+		getChildRoles(found, gr.getValue(getField), gr.getDisplayValue(getField), queryField, getField);
+	}
+
+	return found;
+}