User / Customer Role Membership Check in ISF / Javascript

Question

Did not see this in the documentation...
Does anyone know if checking for the User or Customer Role membership inside ISF / Javascript is supported? -- Like similar to how we can check for "Moment".
If so, what is the variable name and the values?
Thanks.

Answer 1

I think some of the libraries such as ExtJS are loaded and usable on the order forms, but for ones that are not, you can point to the existing library files under RequestCenter.war and add them as a JavaScript library in service designer.
Below is a quick example of looking up the role through the NS API, it should be enough to get you started on what you need.
function doSomething(){
    //Performs NS API XHR Request and returns the responseXML document
    function nsapiRequest(url) {
        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.open("GET", url, false);
        xhr.send();
        if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
            if (xhr.status === 200) {
                return xhr.responseXML;
            } else {
                console.error(xhr.statusText);
    //Function to check if user belongs to a role
    function hasRole(roleName) {
        var doc = nsapiRequest("/RequestCenter/nsapi/directory/people/currentuser");
        //Get all associated role elements
        var roles = doc.getElementsByTagName("associatedRole");
        //Loop through roles to check for a specific one, could also build an array of all user roles
        for (var i = 0; i < roles.length; i++) {
            //Extract role value
            var role = roles[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
            if (role === roleName)
                return true;
        return false;
    var siteAdmin = hasRole("Site Administrator");
    if (siteAdmin){
        //do something