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Learning ServiceNow

By : Sylvain Hauser
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Learning ServiceNow

By: Sylvain Hauser

Overview of this book

This book shows you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world. We will introduce key concepts and examples on managing and automating IT services, and help you build a solid foundation towards this new approach. We’ll demonstrate how to effectively implement various system configurations within ServiceNow. We’ll show you how to configure and administer your instance, and then move on to building strong user interfaces and creating powerful workflows. We also cover other key elements of ServiceNow, such as alerts and notifications, security, reporting, and custom development. You will learn how to improve your business’ workflow, processes, and operational efficiency. By the end of this book, you will be able to successfully configure and manage ServiceNow within your organization.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning ServiceNow
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Many-to-many relationships in ServiceNow


Many-to-many (M2M) relationships are similar to one-to-many relationships, except that they aren't usually dependent on a foreign key column in a child table. Instead, many-to-many relationships in ServiceNow usually rely on an intermediary table called an M2M table. This table commonly has a PK (Sys ID) of its' own for each record, and otherwise primarily consists (other than the default System fields, like Updated and Created by) of two FK columns.

As it happens, we've already seen one example of a many-to-many table: the Lou's Shoes Order table we defined earlier! This table creates a many-to-many relationship between the Customer and Item tables. This structure makes sense, because any one customer might order multiple different items, and any one item might be purchased by multiple different customers.

Luckily, in ServiceNow, there is an easy and pre-defined way to create M2M tables. Follow the following the steps, to see how to define a new many...