Name
global.MigrateNotificationItemField
Description
Migrate from the notification s item field to the affected_field_on_event field.
Script
var MigrateNotificationItemField = Class.create();
MigrateNotificationItemField.prototype = {
initialize: function() {
},
/**
* Migrates the sysevent_email_action's (notification) item field to the
* affected_field_on_event field (on the same notification) instead. This
* pulls off the 'event.' portion in the item table (typically leaving just
* 'parm1').
*/
migrate_notifications_from_item_to_affected_field_on_event: function() {
// Go through every notification
var notification = new GlideRecord("sysevent_email_action");
notification.query();
while (notification.next()) {
// Ignore notifications where item or item_table are not filled out
if (notification.item == "" || notification.item_table == "")
continue;
else if (notification.item != "event.parm1") {
if (notification.item.substring(0, 6) != "event.") {
gs.warn("While migrating a notification's (" +
notification.sys_id + ") item column to " +
"affected_field_on_event, unexpectedly a value " +
"in item was '" + notification.item + "' and did " +
"not start with 'event.'");
}
var field = notification.item.substring(6);
if (field != "") {
// Add the choice if it exists
if (!this._doesChoiceExist(field)) {
this._insertChoice(field);
}
notification.affected_field_on_event = field;
notification.update();
}
} else {
notification.affected_field_on_event = "parm1";
notification.update();
}
}
},
/**
* Determines if this particular field is already in the choice list.
*
* @param field The field value that is being checked
* @return true if it is in the choice list, false otherwise
*/
_doesChoiceExist: function(field) {
var choices = new GlideRecord("sys_choice");
choices.addQuery("name", "sysevent_email_action");
choices.addQuery("element", "affected_field_on_event");
choices.addQuery("value", field);
choices.query();
return choices.next();
},
/**
* Inserts the choice field to the choice list.
*
* @param field The field value that is being inserted
*/
_insertChoice: function(field) {
var choices = new GlideRecord("sys_choice");
choices.setValue("name", "sysevent_email_action");
choices.setValue("element", "affected_field_on_event");
choices.setValue("label", field);
choices.setValue("value", field);
choices.insert();
},
type: 'MigrateNotificationItemField'
};
Sys ID
98203c627f3302005f58108c3ffa9127