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ServiceNow Application Development

By : Sagar Gupta
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ServiceNow Application Development

By: Sagar Gupta

Overview of this book

ServiceNow provides service management for every department in the enterprise, including IT, Human Resources, Facilities, Field Service, and more. This book focuses on all the steps required to develop apps and workflows for any of your business requirements using ServiceNow. You will start with the first module, which covers the basics of ServiceNow and how applications are structured; how you can customize the dashboard as required; and also how to create users. After you get used to the dashboard, you will move on to the next module, Applications and Tables, where you will learn about working with different tables and how you can create a scope other than the global scope for your application. The next module is Scripting and APIs, where you will learn Scripting in ServiceNow and use powerful APIs to develop applications. The final module, Administration Essentials, covers debugging, advanced database features, and scheduled script creation. By the end of the book you will have mastered creating organized and customer-friendly applications
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to ServiceNow

Best practices for managing groups


There are four major aspects to consider when associating users to groups.

Task assignments

In ServiceNow, assignment groups are the most common user group type consisting of one or more members. There exists an out-of-the-box relation between assignment groups and the assigned to field in different ServiceNow applications such as Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, or Service Catalog Management. In real-world scenarios, it's typically mandatory for the assignment group to be identified and populated on task records before a Service Desk user can perform any update to any task or ticket.

This assignment group field will allocate responsibility of working on the task to the selected team and any associated SLA will be attached to the ticket. If the assigned group is not responsible for working on the task, the group is now responsible for reassigning the task to a more suitable group.

There are many out-of-the-box assignment groups defined...