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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

Styling the CMS


 

While this book will focus primarily on current-generation technology, we would be remiss to completely leave out the CMS. The Service Portal is only available for post-Geneva ServiceNow instances. For Geneva instances and the versions prior, ServiceNow uses the Content Management System (CMS) for users without ITIL/fulfiller roles to submit tickets through the system. CMS will continue to be supported through Istanbul, but support may be discontinued in later versions.

 

The CMS and Service Portal are very similar, in that they are both meant to facilitate something of a "front-end" for business users to submit service requests, log Incidents, and get some basic information about their tickets. They differ though, in that the service portal is based on Angular (a library based on JavaScript, for building powerful web-apps), whereas the CMS is based on Jelly (a little-known multi-phase executable XML language, developed by Apache).

 

The Service Portal also provides a simple...