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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By : Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By: Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications, giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. This course will show 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. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events, and notifications. We’ll then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Further on, you’ll learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. At the end of this course, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining ServiceNow from the following Packt books: 1. Learning ServiceNow 2. ServiceNow Cookbook 3. Mastering ServiceNow, Second Edition
Table of Contents (39 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
36
Bibliography

Chapter 26. Developing Custom Applications

The ServiceNow platform provides a rich functional interface for getting things done, whether you are building a new application or using it. Chapter 1, ServiceNow Foundations, looked at some basic elements, such as creating tables and fields to store your data, and how your data is displayed in tables and fields. This chapter builds on those fundamentals, looking at more ways to connect and model data, build applications faster, and prevent unintended consequences through conflicts. It's a little like having an architect providing that extra flourish to make our hotel not only sturdy, but also work well.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • How ServiceNow Studio provides a single, integrated IDE that collects everything in one place
  • Seeing how applications control the flow of information with myriad of settings and options
  • Use Delegated Development to let other users configure your application
  • Using hierarchical tables to improve reuse...