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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

Configuring UI actions on forms


A UI action is a form button used to perform actions, such as saving a record or creating a new ticket, change ticket, or problem ticket.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you should have an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and an admin role.

How to do it...

  1. Open any standard web browser.

  2. Type the Service-Now instance web address (http://{instance_name}.service-now.com) provided by your company in the address bar. Now, enter your credentials in respective fields.

  3. Go to the Incident Application and click on the Create New module.

  4. Now, you will view an empty incident form or on existing incident form right-click on the header of the incident form through mouse and click on Configure and then on UI Actions option:

    UI Action button

  5. You will now see all the UI actions of the table. You need to click on the New button, as shown here:

    New UI actions

  6. Now, you will see the UI Actions page, which needs to be configured as follows:

    • Name: Take this task ...