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ServiceNow: add an OR condition to GlideRecord if the initial lookup fails

add an OR condition to GlideRecord if the initial lookup fails




var queryField='number';
var rawField='INC0010001'; //--un-comment to test EQUALS
//var rawField='5'; //--un-comment to test LIKE
var tableName='incident';
var res= getReferenceFromRaw(tableName, rawField, queryField);
gs.print('result='+res);

function getReferenceFromRaw (tableName, rawField, queryField) {

// return if raw field is empty
if (rawField == '') {
return '';
}

try { //--
var grTable = new GlideRecord(tableName);
grTable.addQuery(queryField, rawField); //--EQUALS query

grTable.setLimit(1);
grTable.query();
if (grTable.next()) {
//--gs.info('EQUALS');//--not advisable to uncomment if large volume of logs written
return grTable.getUniqueValue();

} else {
//--else statement
//--see https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/tokyo/server/c_GlideRecordScopedAPI
//-- add/applyEncodedQuery function
grTable.initialize();
grTable.addEncodedQuery(queryField + 'LIKE' + rawField); //--CONTAINS query

grTable.setLimit(1);
grTable.query();
if (grTable.next()) {
//--gs.info('CONTAINS');//--not advisable to uncomment if large volume of logs written
return grTable.getUniqueValue();
}
}
} catch (ex) {
//--gs.logError('error:'+ex.toString(),'getReferenceFromRaw');//--not advisable to uncomment if large volume of logs written
}

return;

}


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