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ServiceNow Cookbook

By : Ashish Rudra Srivastava, Dustin Turner
Book Image

ServiceNow Cookbook

By: Ashish Rudra Srivastava, Dustin Turner

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is the ideal platform for you to create enterprise-level applications, giving borh requesters and fulfillers better visibility and access to a process. With this title we’ll guide you through the world of ServiceNow, letting you take on the best the platform offers you with the least amount of hassle. Starting with the core configuration and management tasks, this book will help you build data-driven apps and it will also explore development best practices. You will learn to set up email notifications for users and work with the database view for reporting. Next, the book will guide you through creating various tasks from the workflow and show you how to make the most of the workflow utilities available in ServiceNow. Finally, the book will drive you through the auditing and diagnosing aspects of ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
ServiceNow Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Understand unique record identifier


For maintaining the uniqueness of each record Service-Now generates a 32 character global unique ID which is called sys_id. You can view SysID in any standard browser address bar.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you should have an active Service-Now instance, a role, and valid login credentials.

How to do it...

  1. Open any browser standard browser.

  2. Type the Service-Now instance web address (https://{instance_name}.service-now.com) provided by your organization in the address bar, now enter your credentials in respective fields and press enter button.

  3. In the browser you can view SysID. Let’s understand this by an example. In following screen shot you can view sys_id=3D4301f1084f053200abb3b3728110c70e:

    Record sys_id

There's more…

It is important to note that same sys_id value is never generated more than one time. If two record share same sys_id value then one was copied to other at database level outside of Service-Now application.