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SimpleOne provides several comprised widgets for displaying read-only information on inquiriesuser queries, incidents, problems, requests, and change requests forms. One of them is the Static User Information widget.

This widget retrieves information from the record referenced in the Caller field. By default, the following fields are displayed:

  • Business Phone
  • Mobile Phone
  • Email
  • Timezone
  • Location
  • Department
  • Unit
  • Work Schedule

Info

The Static User Information widget does not display empty fields. That is, if some fields in the Employee record are not filled, they will be hidden.


Widget appearance


  1. User name Username – click on the user name username to open a relevant a relevant record in the Employee table.
  2. Job title.
  3. Fields with available information.

You can reorder widgets and fields using the Form Layout functionality.

To learn how to change the order of fields within the Static User Information widget, refer to the next section.

Configuring widget set of fields


Tip

Role required: admin.

To change the set of displayed fields, complete the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Portal Structure → Widgets.
  2. Open the record named Static User Information.
  3. In the Server Script field, find the line 

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    <![CDATA[const columnNames = [


  4. Add or delete column names in the lines below. 

    Info

    Please note that the script requires the system column names in a single quote marks like , for example, 'business_phone' for the Business Phone column.  

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    linkTextHow to get system name

    To get the system name of a column of from the Employee table, complete the following steps:

    1. Navigate to Organization → Employees.
    2. In the hamburger menu, select Configure → Table.
    3. In the Related Lists area, open the Columns tab.
    4. Using the search boxes or the Condition Builder, find the column you need.
    5. Copy the system name from the Column Name column.



  5. Click Save or Save and Exit to apply changes.


Tip

You can also change the fields field order by moving the lines with their system names in the Server Script field.


For example, we you want to hide the phone numbers and add the name of the employee's manager. To do that we , perform the steps described below. In the Server Script field, we make the following edits:

  • deleting Delete lines containing column names 'business_phone' and 'mobile_phone'.
  • adding Add a new line containing the system column name 'manager' from the Employee table.
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Column


Code Block
titleServer Script (before)
<![CDATA[            const columnNames = [
                'business_phone',
                'mobile_phone',
                'email',
                'timezone_id',
                'location',
                'department',
                'unit',
                'work_schedule'
            ];



Column


Code Block
titleServer Script (after)
<![CDATA[            const columnNames = [
                'email',
                'manager'
                'timezone_id',
                'location',
                'department',
                'unit',
                'work_schedule'
            ];




Adding a widget to custom ITSM essence


To add the Static User Information widget to a custom ITSM table, extended from the ITSM Task table, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the custom table form.
  2. In the hamburger menu, select Configure → Form → Layout.
  3. From the Available box, move the Static User Information widget to the Selected box.
  4. Click Save.

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