I am working on a plan to help those that have apps in the global namespace convert those apps into a scoped app. I'd be willing to hear any thoughts that the community wants to share (either post on this thread and / or email me chris.maloy@servicenow.com). There are many difficult steps in this process (like migrating to a similar, but different data model as well as identifying which API calls you may be using that need to change because they are not accessible to other scopes).

For this reason I am going to start writing a bunch of scripts that can help in the conversion process.

This is a rough first draft for a helper script that can be called to help identify some global dependencies that will change during your conversion process. Don't be too critical I wrote this while on a phone call and I don't multi-task well. I am sure there are better ways to use regular expressions (instead of splitting strings like I am doing - welcome to any feedback).

You will need to call scanScript passing in the sysId of the script you want to scan (including the type if it is not a script include). If you are in a domain separated environment you will need to query with NoDomain.

var siNameCalls = scanScript('ca4033c1d7110100fceaa6859e610326');

//gs.print("" + identifySIDependencies());

//default script type will be a script include (no need to pass in type unless it is not a script include)

function scanScript(scriptSysId, type) {

var lgr = new GlideRecord('sys_script_include');

switch (type) {

case 'businessrule':

var lgr = new GlideRecord('sys_script');

break;

default:

break;

}

lgr.get(scriptSysId);

if (lgr) {

var txt = lgr.script,

ans = txt.split("new"),

anslength = ans.length;

while (anslength--) {

var parsedData = ans[anslength];

var dependency = parsedData.substr(0, parsedData.indexOf("("));

//gs.print(dependency);

var result = identifySIDependencies(dependency); //ItomJSONParser is public //JSONParser set to not public unit test values

if (result === 0) {

gs.print(dependency + " is invalid script include usage. Not accessible in app scope.");

}

}

}

}

function identifySIDependencies(dependency) {

var sigr = new GlideRecord('sys_script_include'),

enc = 'active=truename=' + dependency.trim();

//build the lookup query

sigr.addEncodedQuery(enc);

sigr.query();

if (sigr.next()) {

//check if public access

if (sigr.access == 'public') {

return 1; //public

}

return 0; //private

}

return -1; //not found

}