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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 upgrades


Service-Now has a yearly conference, Knowledge, in which the company releases a new version of Service-Now with new features, new applications, enhancements and so on. So it's very important to keep the Service-Now instance updated for taking the leverage of the Service-Now product.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you should have special access. Service-Now has a customer relationship portal (http://hi.service-now.com) where customers can raise product-related issues and the Service-Now customer support team works on these issues. You should have access to this portal (https://hi.service-now.com) to step through this recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Open any standard web browser and type the instance address.

  2. Log in to https://hi.service-now.com with the credentials, as shown here:

    Access Hi- Account

  3. After logging in, click on Manage  Instances:

    Manage Instances

  4. Now you will be able to see all the instances and their status. Now hover on the desired instance;...