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Learning ServiceNow

You're reading from   Learning ServiceNow Administration and development on the Now platform, for powerful IT automation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788837040
Length 388 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tim Woodruff Tim Woodruff
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Lists and Forms 3. UI Customization 4. Understanding Data and Relationships 5. Tasks and Workflows 6. UI and Data Policies 7. User Administration and Security 8. Introduction to Scripting 9. The Server-Side Glide API 10. The Client-Side Glide API 11. Server-Side Scripting 12. Client-Side Scripting 13. Service Portal Scripting 14. Debugging 15. Pro Tips Index

GlideSession


The GlideSession class has no constructor, but it is returned from the getSession() method of the GlideSystem API (gs.getSession();). This API allows you to get and set data related to the current session.

getClientData() and putClientData()

The getClientData() and putClientData() methods allow you to set data in the user's session from a server-side script using putClientData(), and then retrieve that data using getClientData() from a client-side script.

This functionality can be extremely useful for passing data back-and-forth between the server and client, without performance-costly synchronous queries or time-consuming Ajax calls. Usually a display business rule and using g_scratchpad would make more sense, but there are plenty of use-cases for these APIs as well.

Example usage

In a business rule on the Incident table, we can place some data in the user's client session like so:

var userSession = gs.getSession(); 
session.putClientData('ticket_number', current.getValue('number...
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