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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 34. Packaging with Applications, Update Sets, and Upgrades

A ServiceNow instance is independent. Making changes to one instance will not affect another. But since every customer has multiple instances, how should you move your carefully developed and tested scripts between them? Obviously, you wouldn't want to repeat the configuration over and over again, and copying and pasting is time consuming and fraught with mistakes.

This chapter explores the mechanisms that will help you to implement an effective development methodology, letting you release good-quality configurations in a consistent manner. It will review the following topics:

  • Update Sets record configuration into groupings, bundling code and other items together.
  • Source control lets you link your instance to a Git repository, letting you store your configuration in an external system.
  • Applications provide another way to bundle work together, with Studio letting you publish them to other instances.
  • All data and configuration can...