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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

Using the debugging tools


If the reason for an error is not immediately obvious, then it is time to use the session debuggers. Each provides an insight into what the platform is processing and the decisions it takes. This can even include watching all the database activity with the SQL debugger. There are many others too!

 

The session debuggers can be found by navigating to System Diagnostics > Session Debug. Once activated, they will continue while you are logged in and provide you with feedback until you choose to stop (by navigating to System Diagnostics > Session Debug > Disable all), log out, or your session times out. This means that you can enable debugging and then impersonate a user; the debugging will continue. This is critically helpful when you debug security or any other permission issues since an admin account is often treated very differently to a standard user.

Note

You can also active debugging for a particular application scope with the following function call: gs...