Client side

Author: kmxo

Client-Side Components/Client Scripts/Call SI to recover User data/README.md

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+# Call Script Include to recover User data
+
+In this onChange Client Script, the scenario is this:
+- In a form, we have a reference field to the User table to allow our user to select any user within the platform.
+- Once a user is selected, we are passing that Sys ID to recover more information regarding the selected record.

Client-Side Components/Client Scripts/Call SI to recover User data/script.js

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+/*
+Type: onChange
+Field: a reference to the User table
+*/
+function onChange(control, oldValue, newValue, isLoading, isTemplate) {
+    if (isLoading || newValue === '') {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    var test = newValue;
+
+    //The Script Include called here can be found in:
+    //Server-Side Components / Script Includes / Get User Data by Id
+    //It is in Global scope 
+    var ga = new GlideAjax('GetUserData');//script include name
+    ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'GetUserBy_id'); //method to be called
+    ga.addParam('sysparm_userid', test); //send a parameter to the method.
+    ga.getXMLAnswer(userInfoParse);
+
+    function userInfoParse(response) {
+        if (response == '') {
+            g_form.addErrorMessage('User not found with the informed sys_id.');
+        } else {
+            //alert(response);
+            var obj = JSON.parse(response);
+            g_form.setValue('u_first_name', obj.first_name.toString());
+            g_form.setValue('u_last_name', obj.last_name.toString());
+            g_form.setValue('u_email', obj.email.toString());
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}