Dear community members,

I surely like the simulator concept, but in the HAM simulator you have to manually add a bunch of users and for such repetitive tasks I like to learn how to do it in a script.

I created a little script where you just replace a placeholder with your first name. It is based on other community entries of Mark Roetthoff and Tushkar Walvekar and I like to thank them for sharing. It created after replacing the placeholder all desired users correctly. So if you want to save you a little time mark it helpful, please. I ran it as a background script.

I also attached the source with the complete code. You might want to rename it from .txt extension back to .js. so that the editor of your choice recognizes it as a javascript and it contains all users needed while the code example below just shows it for the first one. Then replace the placeholder with your first name copy it to background scripts and execute it.

I am aware this is not a high class example ... in the next step i would like to create a json payload from the needed data and create a reusable function to implement the payload into user and has_role tables.

Hope you like the idea of sharing.

PS: if you wonder what a Simulator is, you can follow this link to a 6 minute intro video from ServiceNow.

/* 
ADMIN

User ID: admin.<your first name>
First Name: Admin
Last name: <your first name>
Email: <user id>@example.com
Role(s): admin
*/

//Create User
var grUser = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
grUser.initialize();
grUser.setValue('user_name', 'admin.<your first name>');
grUser.setValue('first_name', 'Admin');
grUser.setValue('last_name', '<your first name>');
grUser.setValue('email', 'admin.<your first name>@example.com');
grUser.setValue('preferred_language', 'en');
grUser.setValue('time_zone', 'Europe/Amsterdam');
grUser.setValue('date_format', 'dd-MM-yyyy');
grUser.setValue('sys_created_on', '1983-05-01 12:30:00');
grUser.setNewGuidValue('admin.<your first name>');
grUser.autoSysFields();
grUser.insert();

//Declare roles in array
//var desiredRoles = ["role1","role2","role3"];
var desiredRoles = ["admin"];

//Assign the roles 
var grRole = new GlideRecord('sys_user_has_role');
for(var i =0; i<desiredRoles.length; i++){
   grRole.initialize();
   grRole.user = grUser.sys_id;
   grRole.setDisplayValue('role',desiredRoles[i]); 
   grRole.insert();
}

// removed duplicate code, download attachment to get the complete 
// user implementation code for the simulator as in the first task