This is old and I wouldn't recommend anymore. I'm keeping this up because I want to find it later. - Jace May 21, 2022
Here I'll write the logic out some and note the issues identified so far.
The way this works is if a sys_journal_field record is created or updated, then verify the field is a journal type. Then pass the value of the notes to paddAndRefLinks function. This will iterate over most the sys_number records to find possible records, do a get against possible record and if found rewrite the entry either a link.
The places I've seen this not work well.
- Virtual task boards don't handle [code] tags well if the second tag is cut off from the display.
- If you insert knowledge into comments it prepends and appends the [code] tags. I don't account for this in the script
Below is the script.
/* Business Rule: Automagically Link*/
/* Table: sys_journal_field*/
/* When: After*/
/* Order: 100*/
/* Insert: true*/
/* Update:true*/
/* jslint sloppy: true, vars: true*/
/* global GlideRecord, current, paddAndLinkRefs*/
function onAfter(current, previous) {
//This function will be automatically called when this rule
// is processed.
//if dict.type is journal... rewrite teh notes
var dict = new GlideRecord('sys_dictionary');
var dictQuery = 'internal_type=journal';
dictQuery += '^ORinternal_type=journal_input';
dictQuery += '^name=' + current.name;
dictQuery += '^element=' + current.element;
dict.addEncodedQuery(dictQuery);
dict.query();
while (dict.next()) {
var newValue = paddAndLinkRefs(current.value);
current.value = newValue; //update audit record
current.setWorkflow(false);
current.autoSysFields(false);
current.update();
var audit = new GlideRecord('sys_audit');
var auditQuery = 'documentkey=' + current.element_id;
auditQuery += '^fieldname=' + current.element;
auditQuery += '^ORDERBYDESCrecord_checkpoint';
audit.addEncodedQuery(auditQuery);
audit.query();
if (audit.next()) {
audit.newvalue = newValue;
audit.setWorkflow(false);
audit.autoSysFields(false);
audit.update();
}
}
}
function paddAndLinkRefs(text) {
//below finds http links
var httpregex = /(https?://[^s]+)/gi;
var httpsubst = '[code]';
httpsubst += '<a href="$1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">';
httpsubst += '$1</a>[/code]';
// The substituted value will be contained in the result
// variable
text = text.replace(httpregex, httpsubst);
//above finds http links
//below finds links to records based on numbers
var num = new GlideRecord('sys_number');
var numQuery = 'category!=sc_ic_task_defn_staging';
numQuery += '^category!=task';
numQuery += '^category!=ts_index_name';
num.addEncodedQuery();
num.query();
var tables = [];
while (num.next()) {
tables.push({
'name': num.category.toString(),
'prefix': num.prefix.toString(),
'digits': num.maximum_digits.toString()
});
}
for (var x = 0; x < tables.length; x = x + 1) {
var table = tables[x].name;
var prefix = tables[x].prefix;
var digits = parseInt(tables[x].digits, 10);
var re = new RegExp("(\s|^)(" + prefix + ")(\d+)", "gi");
text = text.replace(re, function(m) {
var result = "";
var copy = m.toUpperCase();
var number = copy.split(prefix)[1];
var space = copy.split(prefix)[0];
while (number.length < digits) {
number = "0" + number;
}
var recordnumber = prefix + number;
var test = new GlideRecord(table);
//number field by default to 'number'
var numberField = 'number';
//test if 'u_number' is valid
if (test.isValidField('u_number')) {
numberField = 'u_number'; //if so, use it
}
if (test.get(numberField, recordnumber)) {
result += space;
result += "[code]";
result += '<a style="';
result += 'text-decoration: underline; ';
result += 'color: #0000ff;" ';
result += 'href="' + table + '.do?sysparm_query=';
result += numberField + '=' + recordnumber;
result += '" target="_blank" rel="noopener" ';
result += 'data-mce-href="';
result += table + '.do?';
result += 'sysparm_query=' + numberField + '=';
result += recordnumber + '" data-mce-style="';
result += 'text-decoration: underline; ';
result += 'color: #0000ff;">"';
result += recordnumber + "</a>[/code]";
} else {
result = m;
}
return result;
});
}
return text;
}