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Example usage

While there are use cases for calling these methods on GlideRecords inside of scripts, they are most useful inside of condition fields; for example, those which determine visibility of UI actions, as you can see in the screenshot after the code snippet:

current.canCreate() && gs.hasRole('itil') 

These two conditions check whether the user can create records in that table, and whether the user has the itil role.

Documenting your code - telling other developers who might read it, both what you're doing, and (most importantly) why - is critically important to being a good developer. However, condition fields must be written on ...