Hi All,

I hope you are doing fine.

• As a ServiceNow developer, the thing which you will encounter daily is GlideRecord API. Whenever we have to retrieve any information from the database the GlideRecord is the primary API.
• Let's first try to understand what is GlideRecord in ServiceNow.
• As per ServiceNow docs, the ServiceNow GlideRecord class is the way to interact with the ServiceNow database from a script. See the GlideRecord API reference for a complete list of methods.
  GlideRecord interactions start with a database query.
• The generalized strategy is:
• Create a GlideRecord object for the table of interest.
• Build the query condition(s).
• Execute the query.
• Apply script logic to the records returned in the GlideRecord object.
• In my project, I have faced a scenario where we have created a function that returns a GlideRecord object as an output, and our intention is just to provide read access to the object via GlideRecord.
• But in most cases, people will start modifying that object by updating a specific attribute on that record which in return changes the base values for the record.
• We were looking at the feasibility to make this GlideRecord restricted from the update that's where I encountered this hidden concept.
  In this tutorial, we will be looking at the way to make GlideRecord Read-only so that no one can update the returned GlideRecord. Isn't it amazing?
• Agenda:
  
  • What is GlideRecord
    
  • Problem statement for the exposure of GlideRecord Object
    
  • How we can mark the gLideRecord to ReadOnly
    
  • Function to check if the GlideRecord is ReadOnly
    
  • Demo

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