Glide Record - Query records older than N days - Pull 1

[hanna-g-sn]

PR Description:

This submission demonstrates an efficient use of GlideRecord, GlideDateTime, and GlideSystem to find and process records older than a configurable threshold (N days) without heavy queries.

Use case:
Identify and act on aged records (for example, Incidents older than 30 days) in a performance-safe way.

Key features:

• Uses GlideDateTime arithmetic for UTC-safe date boundaries
• Encoded query keeps index usage optimal
• Supports sampling with setLimit for background testing

Includes:

• README.md explaining use, setup, and links to official documentation
• gr_older_than_n_days.js ready to run as a Background Script or Script Include method

Tested in:
Zurich release instance on incident table with 5k records. Verified count output and date filter accuracy.

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[ravichandra1998g]

Hello @hanna-g-sn
We appreciate the effort you’ve put into this contribution.

For Hacktoberfest, we’re aiming for high-quality contributions providing real-world use developer cases. You can see some of the recently merged PRs to know the kind of code snippets we are aiming for.

This cannot be merged as the code snippet is basic Gliderecord query to get records along with GlideDateTime filter.

Please do not submit low effort PRs.

Please reopen/ submit a new one after adding more dynamic context/use cases that are more suitable for the Hactoberfest!

Thank you!