I'm currently developing an interactive message menu that prompts users to select another user in their Slack group. Following this guide I am able to prompt the user to select one user from the entire list of users in the group.
I would like to know if it's possible to limit the size of the list to n specific users? If not, is it possible to set the order of users or at least shuffle them randomly? I should be able to do this using data_source: external but would like to know if this can be achieved more elegantly using data_source: users.
No, if you want to show only a subset of users you have two options.
provide the list through an external data
create the list on the fly as a "Simple Menu", with the sub-set of
users, e.g. coming from a request to groups.info with names
added from users.list.
Related
I want to display the record in custom created related list of all users having saming manager in servicenow. For e.g. Abel, Jack has manager Adel, so when I open Adel record I should be able to see the Abel user and Jack user.
This is the script I used and don't know how it will execute in related list:
var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
gr.addQuery('user_name','abel');
gr.query();
gr.next();
gs.print(gr.getDisplayValue('manager'));
I tried this is in Scripts Background option in Application Navigator
You shouldn't need to code for this. If you want to add a related list of user's the current user manages. It will list as "Users" but you can change that label in the related list configuration.
If you meant to do this by code, you'd need to a scripted relationship the data. Here's some information on that. https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/newyork-platform-user-interface/page/administer/form-administration/task/t_CreateDefinedRelatedLists.html
In Case Form,Based on the group selected in Assignment group field ,the assigned to field is listing some users which belongs to it in CRM UI.
Now I want to retrieve the same users using normal REST API. Please suggest REST API to list the users based on a group.
Users linked to groups is stored in table sys_user_grmember. In the example I search for all Users in Group named "Application Development".
GET https://YOURINSTANCE.service-now.com/api/now/table/sys_user_grmember?sysparm_query=%22groupSTARTSWITHApplication%20Development%22&sysparm_limit=10
You can easily test the REST Api with the rest api explorer from SNOW: https://YOURINSTANCE.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=%2F$restapi.do
Can you give more info on the exact requirement, so i can be more precise?
As far as I know, you can create a rest message to get the users inside a group and show the list wherever you want.
This would require three things from your side.
a) Creating a rest message in Snow.
b) Creating a script includes calling the rest message.
c) A client script or trigger which initiates the rest call using client script.
Hope this helps.
Regards.
I'm creating a trade Telegram bot and I suppose to have about 5 different menus (keyboards) to communicate with the user. On the first step I provide to user an ability to choose the exnchange to trade, after that she should choose the currency, then choose the price, then she could see another user orders etc.
From the backend view the user messages is just a text and I choose where to route the request by just analyzing that text (old school switch statement). For the first step is okay, I have only couple of exchanges so I know the user is on the first step, but when she chose the currency how could I know which exchange he had been chosen on the previous step? Of course I could use the database to save all user menus interactions, but I'm interested is there another choise exist?
Try to use InlineQuery. You can store some key parameters through the dialog with user. For example, you can store them in callback_data field, if you are using InlineKeyboard.
I need to apply a filter in some report for some users.
I was told that the best way to do this is a security filter but i discovered that security filters are applied to all the reports that the user open.
I need some kind o filter that filter an attribute on a user but just on some reports, not all.
example:
if report1{
if user1 then attribute = 1
if user2 then attribute = 2
}
let's say i have departments and chiefs of those departments.
It is not a matter of security but a matter of comfort.
I want to avoid the chief of a department to manually select (prompt) his department.
It would be more comfortable if the system would recognize the user and show the data of his interest.
There a different ways to solve this kind of scenario, depending on the level of flexibility you want to offer to your user and the effort you need to implement and maintain the solution.
The User Login way
No flexibility, low maintenance, more effort to implement
Use the User Login prompt. This is a system prompt (created by default MicroStrategy) that returns the user login. If you have a table with the data that a user can see like this:
UserLogin YourAttribute
user1 attribute1
user2 attribute2
user3 attribute3
... ...
You can create an attribute UserLogin to be parent of the Attribute you want to use as filter and then create a filter (User Login = User Login System prompt)that you will put in your report.
More detailed information can be found here.
Once implemented this solution will you need to maintain that new table and when the user run a report with that filter it will be able to see only his data. It's similar to a security filter, but now you can decide where to apply the filter.
Multiple reports for multiple prompt defaults
Flexibility, high maintenance, little effort to implement
For each user create a copy of that report with the proper answer as default.
Maybe you can create ten reports now, but if you need to modify that report tomorrow you will need to modify ten report or recreate again all copies with different prompt answers.
Anyway this is good for the users, because they can change the prompt answers if they need.
Using URL to answer prompts
Flexibility, low maintenance, variable effort to implement
Instead to run the report using MicroStrategy you can provide to each user a specific URL that, using MicroStrategy URLAPI, answer automatically the prompt.
Of course you need to prepare the URLs in advance or find a way to do it programmatically. This is a good solution if the user don't want to navigate the MicroStrategy web interface but just run the report.
Subscribe the prompt answers
Flexibility, low maintenance, medium effort to implement
Have the report with the proper prompt answer delivered to your user every morning (or when you want). Using MicroStrategy Distribution Services you can deliver a report or document to your user and for each user you can specify the correct prompt answers.
No user can receive the full report in their mail box or just a link to their history link, opening that link they will see the report with their data. Of course users (or probably you) will need to setup all the subscriptions required.
Final thoughts
In these case I prefer to leave flexibility to users and teach them how to use the product. Of course there are some people they have no time for this kind of things (usually C something levels), in that case the best this is to have the data delivered to their email.
I understand some of these options are not that straight forward to implement if you are new to MicroStrategy.
My suggestion: for now go with the subscriptions (if you can) or teach your users how to save their own copy of that report (in My Reports) with the prompt already answered (oh, yes, this was another option, but each user has to do it), every time they will open it now, the prompt won't show up (but if you change the original report they will need to do it again).
Let me know if you need more details.
I have little problem with permissions in my future social application.
Platform will nonrel db (Google's BigTable).
In my application each user has groups (for example: friends, collaborators, family...). In group has some friends (like in Facebook). And can publish some content (news, short text, ...) only for this group.
If I have user in my group it is my friend. Like in Facebook, but more groups.
My idea is, that each user can see (on himself "feed") all last content of all friends in one page (like as Facebook's Top news).
But I have problems with creating simple query.
For example:
SELECT * FROM News WHERE group_key IN [list_of_groups_where_i_am]
This works good, but there are sub-queries and limit of list is 30 items.
Other way is strong caching of content.
Does anybody have some idea? Or any study material, example...
With a requirement like this you can optimize for either read or write, but usually not both. You have the write optimized version - just write a record with the right group key but have a complex query to get content for all the groups.
The read optimized version would be to write the content (or just its id) to a feed for each user, which makes the read query very simple.