In a business rule or other server script, the gs.getUser() method returns a user object. The user object is an internal representation of the currently logged in user and provides information about the user and various utility functions.

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About this task

For a list and description of the available scoped methods for the user object, see GlideUser.

Procedure

  1. Retrieve the current user. 
    var myUserObject = gs.getUser()
  2. Use the getUserByID method to fetch a different user using the user_name field or sys_id on the target record.
    For example: 
    var ourUser = gs.getUser(); 
gs.­print(­ourUser.­getFirstName()); //print the first name of the user you are currently logged in as 
newUser = ourUser.­getUserByID(<user_sys_id>); //fetch a different user, using the sys_id of the target user record. 
gs.­print(­newUser.­getFirstName()); //first name of the user you fetched above 
gs.­print(­newUser.­isMemberOf(­'Capacity Mgmt'));