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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

Chapter 3. Data Management

In the previous chapters, we learned the basics of the ServiceNow platform and how to perform user administration. Let us now dig deep into the concept of data dictionaries to understand how data is stored and segregated in ServiceNow. As part of your project at ABCD, Inc, you are supposed to create a custom table to manage all point-of-sale locations.

In this chapter, we will learn how to create a new table from scratch, extend existing tables, and add fields (or columns) to new or existing tables. We will also look at the structure of existing tables, such as task and cmdb.

Managing tables and columns is one of the most common jobs that administrators and developers have to perform when working on the ServiceNow platform. As ServiceNow is a cloud-based platform, direct access to the database isn't provided to customers. However, the ServiceNow platform features various modules that can be used to create and manage tables and columns.

In this chapter, we will cover...