TechNow Ep 33 | GlideAjax

[Chuck Tomasi]

Chuck and Dave cover GlideAjax - a common scenario for making server information available to your client scripts. While this can seem complex at first, they take it step by step and explain everything to help you feel confident in creating effective and efficient scripts.

Originally aired Thursday December 15, 2016 12:00PM PST  

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Create your own fork of the example used in this video:

GitHub - chucktomasi/technow-glideajax: Simple demonstration of GlideAjax for TechNow

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Chuck Tomasi is a Platform Architect for ServiceNow.   He is a computer science major with over 30 years of IT experience. As a former ServiceNow customer, Chuck won the first Innovation of the Year Award at Knowledge 10. Since joining ServiceNow in 2010 as a Technical Consultant, he has done many large scale ITSM implementations and custom applications, acted as an adjunct instructor for Education Services, created and lead the Technical Best Practices program, and co-hosts the ServiceNow series "TechNow".

Dave Slusher has been developing software for 20 years for companies such as Intel, Orbitz, Dell Secureworks and many startups lost to history. He has been with ServiceNow for two years, first in Expert Services and now as the Developer Evangelist for the developer community and portal. He earned his BS from Georgia Tech and his MS in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana - Lafayette.

Kreg Steppe is a Senior Curriculum Developer within ServiceNow developing and supporting cloud training infrastructure. He specializes in developing integration solutions, automating repeatable processes and Cloud Management in ITOM. Kreg's prior experience includes operating his own ISP, developing web applications in PHP, network integration, managing network support, Application Development on cloud based networks, DNS and email server maintenance. He is a Linux enthusiast and enjoys Photography.

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[kenf]

I've noticed ServiceNow doesn't have native support for creating automated tests for code you write. I have a Java background and I am used to writing automated tests using JUnit.   How do you recommend testing the AJAX code.   On the client and server side?

[jayakaru]

Hi

Need some advise on this

Iam trying to validate the user's manager status whether it is active in a catalog approval workflow item

IF the user's manager is active workflow should move further else should stop

current.variable.manager.active   does not seem to work , not sure if its right

Please help

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi,

You're close. If manager is a variable on the record, sure, change it to

current.variables.manager.active.

If instead you have the user, then you need to dot-walk a bit further.

This example assumes 'user' is the variable name on the record.

current.variables.user.manager.active

[jayakaru]

Thankyou Chuck for you help on this

manager is not a variable on the catalog , only user is . so il have to check for user's manager active status

plz hint on how to dot walk