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ServiceNow Cookbook

By : Ashish Rudra Srivastava, Dustin Turner
Book Image

ServiceNow Cookbook

By: Ashish Rudra Srivastava, Dustin Turner

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is the ideal platform for you to create enterprise-level applications, giving borh requesters and fulfillers better visibility and access to a process. With this title we’ll guide you through the world of ServiceNow, letting you take on the best the platform offers you with the least amount of hassle. Starting with the core configuration and management tasks, this book will help you build data-driven apps and it will also explore development best practices. You will learn to set up email notifications for users and work with the database view for reporting. Next, the book will guide you through creating various tasks from the workflow and show you how to make the most of the workflow utilities available in ServiceNow. Finally, the book will drive you through the auditing and diagnosing aspects of ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
ServiceNow Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Understanding Service-Now's self-service application


Service-Now's Self-Service module is available for all users, whether it's an end user or any ITIL role holder. The self-service application is the best place from to manage major tasks.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, all you need is a Service-Now instance address and valid credentials.

How to do it...

The Self-Service application module is available in the IT view for all users. To view this application module, the user doesn't need role. This self-service application has many modules but let's take a look at some key ones:

  • Watched  Incidents: As a support group member, usually you want to denote your reporting manager or lead or any other user regards to the incident so in such a case you can add their name in watched list field. Once users are added on the incident form, they will start getting all email notification for each and every update regards to the task like incident, problem, and change and so on:

    Service-Now self-service module

  • Homep age: Mostly, the resolver manager wants to see the overview of all calls; so, in such a case, Service-Now provides out of the box modules where any manager, lead, or team member can view the overall status of all calls, which can be customized based on the requirement:

    The ITIL Homepage