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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

Working with the report range


The report range feature is applied to only those dates which are very helpful in filtering the reports. On multiple occasions, clients request for a dashboard where they want to see first half (all incident which were create in last 4 hours. Let’s understand this by an example so for an instance if a standard business day is from 8.00 AM to 4.30 PM then we can consider first half from 8.00 AM to 12.00 PM)  call/tasks details with other parameter such as monthly or quarterly. This recipe will teach you to work with a report range.

Getting ready

For this recipe, all you need is an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and a role (admin or report admin).

How to do it...

  1. Open a web browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer).

  2. Type the instance web address in the address bar.

  3. Log in to the Service-Now instance using the credentials.

  4. In left-hand search box, type reports and click on Report Ranges module under Administration section of report...