related list

Author: kmxo

Server Side/HideRelatedList/readme.md

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+# How to hide a Related List
+
+Do you know about the Related List that displays people who can approve or reject a document?
+
+Recently a scenario came up where the developer needed to prevent the employee who created a record from approving that document.
+It wasn't common because usually the operational level creates the document while a manager approves it.
+Leaving this question of personas aside and focusing on the problem, what would be a possible solution?
+
+The first workaround that came to my mind was to hide the Approval list if the user who registered was viewing his own record.
+A workaround is not the ultimate solution. Just a palliative fix while we find time to think about the ideal one.
+
+The action plan
+
+1) Every record has a field called sys_created_by;
+2) On the front-end (client side) we have access to an API called Glide User that has some information about the logged in user. Among them is the name in the userName property.
+
+What if we create a Client Script of type onLoad* that compares these two fields and, if they are the same, simply hides the Approvers related list?
+To see the related list name created for your table, you can access the platform and go to System UI > Related lists.
+
+
+Now that you know the related list name, your script would look like script.js in this folder.
+
+To get the value of the sys_created_by field it must be in the form. You can leave it read-only or even hidden but it must exist on the form.
+
+A Client Script of type onLoad is executed whenever the form is opened.

Server Side/HideRelatedList/script.js

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+function onLoad() {
+   
+    var createdBy = g_form.getValue('sys_created_by');
+    var loggedUser = g_user.userName;
+    if (createdBy == loggedUser) {
+       g_form.hideRelatedList('put your related list name here');
+    }
+ 
+}