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ServiceNow Application Development
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ServiceNow Application Development

by Sagar Gupta
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
9h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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GlideUser

The GlideUser class contains methods and properties that can be used to retrieve session information related to the currently logged-in user and user roles. Similar to GlideForm, there is no need to create an explicit object of the GlideUser class. The g_user global object can be used to retrieve user session information in client scripts.

The following are some examples of GlideUser:

  • The g_user.userName property can be used to retrieve the username of the currently logged-in user
  • The g_user.userID property can be used to retrieve the sys_id of the currently logged-in user
  • The booleang_user.hasRole method can be used to check whether the user has a specified role. It will return true if the user has the role and vice versa
  • g_user.hasRole('admin')// ...
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