I made this a while ago to save me some time of having to interact with the GUI. Works well enough, and will get updates to become a scoped app or script include... It's a start.
Toss it in a fix script and adjust the bottom to your details while in the correct scope/update set. Then you have to figure out containers.
function createCatalog(name) {
/*
* Expecting a string (name)
*/
var catalogExists = new GlideRecord('sc_catalog');
catalogExists.addQuery('title', name);
catalogExists.query();
if (catalogExists.next()) {
return catalogExists.sys_id;
} else {
var sc_catalog = new GlideRecord('sc_catalog');
sc_catalog.initialize();
sc_catalog.description = '';
//sc_catalog.sys_name = name;
sc_catalog.title = name;
sc_catalog.active = true;
return sc_catalog.insert();
}
}
function createCategory(name, catalogId) {
/*
* Expecting a string (name)
* Expecting a string (catalogId)
*/
var categoryExists = new GlideRecord('sc_catalog');
categoryExists.addQuery('title', name);
categoryExists.query();
if (categoryExists.next()) {
return categoryExists.sys_id;
} else {
var sc_category = new GlideRecord('sc_category');
sc_category.initialize();
sc_category.sc_catalog = catalogId;
sc_category.sys_name = name;
sc_category.title = name;
return sc_category.insert();
}
}
function createItem(itemObj, categoryId, catalogId) {
/*
* Expecting an object (itemObj)
* name
* short_description
* .
* Expecting a string (categoryId)
* Expecting a string (catalogId)
*/
var itemExists = new GlideRecord('sc_cat_item');
itemExists.addQuery('name', itemObj.name);
itemExists.addQuery('category', categoryId);
itemExists.addQuery('sc_catalogs', catalogId);
itemExists.query();
if (itemExists.next()) {
return itemExists.sys_id;
} else {
var sc_cat_item = new GlideRecord('sc_cat_item');
sc_cat_item.initialize();
sc_cat_item.category = categoryId;
sc_cat_item.sc_catalogs = catalogId;
sc_cat_item.name = itemObj.name;
sc_cat_item.short_description = itemObj.short_description;
sc_cat_item.description = itemObj.short_description;
return sc_cat_item.insert();
}
}
function createVariables(varArr, itemId) {
/*
* Expecting an array of object containing;
* name (String)
* question_text (String)
* order (Number)
* value (String)
* type (Number)
* * 1 = Yes/No
* * 2 = MultiLine Text
* * 3 = Multiple Choice (required "choices" = array {"name","value","order"})
* * 4 = Numeric Scale (optional "numericScaleMin", "numericScaleMax")
* * 5 = Select Box (required "choices" = array {"name","value","order"})
* * 6 = Single Line Text
* * 7 = Checkbox
* * 8 = Reference (requires "table", "qual")
* * 9 = Date
* * 10 = Date/Time
* * 11 = Label
* * 12 = Break
* * 13 = UNLISTED
* * 14 = Macro
* * 15 = UI Page
* * 17 = Macro with Label
* * 18 = Lookup Select Box (requires "table", "qual")
* * 19 = Container Start
* * 20 = Container End
* * 21 = List Collector
* * 22 = Lookup Multiple Choice
* below are the additional required sometimes things
* table (string)
* choices (array) of {name, value, order}
* qual (string)
*/
if (typeof varArr.name === "string") {
varArr = [varArr];
}
varArr.map(function(varObj){
var variableSysid;
var variableExists = new GlideRecord('item_option_new');
variableExists.addQuery('name', varObj.name);
variableExists.addQuery('cat_item', itemId);
if (variableExists.next()) {
//return variableExists.sys_id;
variableSysid = variableExists.sys_id;
} else {
var variable = new GlideRecord('item_option_new');
variable.initialize();
variable.cat_item = itemId;
variable.name = varObj.name.split(' ').join('_');
if (typeof varObj.question_text === 'undefined') {
//varObj.question_text = varObj.name.replace(/_/g, ' ');
var arrayOfQs = varObj.name.split(' ');
varObj.question_text = '';
arrayOfQs.map(function(question){
varObj.question_text += question.charAt(0).toUpperCase();
varObj.question_text += question.substr(1, question.length);
varObj.question_text += ' ';
});
}
variable.question_text = varObj.question_text;
variable.sys_name = varObj.question_text;
if (typeof varObj.order === 'undefined') {
var sc_item_option = new GlideRecord('item_option_new');
sc_item_option.addQuery('cat_item', itemId);
sc_item_option.orderByDesc('order');
sc_item_option.setLimit(1);
sc_item_option.query();
if (sc_item_option.next()) {
varObj.order = parseInt(sc_item_option.order) + 100;
} else {
varObj.order = 100;
}
}
variable.order = varObj.order;
variable.type = varObj.type;
variable.cat_item = itemId;
if (typeof varObj.value === 'undefined') {
varObj.value = '';
}
variable.default_value = varObj.value;
variable.default_html_value = varObj.value;
variable.reference = varObj.table;
variable.lookup_table = varObj.table;
variable.list_table = varObj.table;
variable.reference_qual = varObj.qual;
variable.reference_qual_condition = varObj.qual;
variableSysid = variable.insert();
//return variable.insert();
}
gs.print(typeof varObj.choices);
gs.print(typeof varObj.choices !== 'undefined');
if (typeof varObj.choices !== 'undefined') {
gs.print('choices len: ' + varObj.choices.length);
varObj.choices.map(function(option){
var choice = new GlideRecord('question_choice');
choice.initialize();
choice.question = variableSysid;
choice.text = option.text;
choice.value = option.value;
choice.order = option.order;
choice.insert();
});
}
});
}
function createUIPolicy(itemId) {
var policy = new GlideRecord('catalog_ui_policy');
policy.short_description = 'Initial UI Policy';
policy.applies_to = 'item';
policy.catalog_item = itemId;
var policyId = policy.insert();
var sc_item_option = new GlideRecord('item_option_new');
sc_item_option.addQuery('cat_item', itemId);
sc_item_option.orderByDesc('order');
sc_item_option.query();
while (sc_item_option.next()) {
var policyAction = new GlideRecord('catalog_ui_policy_action');
policyAction.catalog_item = itemId;
policyAction.ui_policy = policyId;
policyAction.catalog_variable = 'IO:' + sc_item_option.sys_id;
policyAction.insert();
}
}
var catalog = createCatalog('Custom Catalog');
var category = createCategory('Categories are Silly', catalog);
var item = createItem({
name: 'Burger Request',
short_description: 'Request a burger'
}, category, catalog);
var variables = [
{
name: 'How delicious should it be?',
type: 5,
choices : [{
name:'Disgusting',
value:'disgusting',
order:'100'
},{
name:'Tolerable',
value:'tolerable',
order:'200'
},{
name:'Average',
value:'average',
order:'300'
},{
name:'Good',
value:'good',
order:'400'
}{
name:'Great',
value:'great',
order:'500'
},]
},{
name: 'Special Instructions',
type: 6
}
];
createVariables(variables, item);
createUIPolicy(item);