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Learning ServiceNow

By : Sylvain Hauser
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Learning ServiceNow

By: Sylvain Hauser

Overview of this book

This book shows 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. We’ll demonstrate how to effectively implement various system configurations within ServiceNow. We’ll show you how to configure and administer your instance, and then move on to building strong user interfaces and creating powerful workflows. We also cover other key elements of ServiceNow, such as alerts and notifications, security, reporting, and custom development. You will learn how to improve your business’ workflow, processes, and operational efficiency. By the end of this book, you will be able to successfully configure and manage ServiceNow within your organization.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning ServiceNow
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Server-side debugging


Server-side debugging can consist of debugging server-side scripts and other behavior, as well as performance and security issues. Debugging server-side scripts can often be slightly more difficult, as the exact source of the undesired behavior is not necessarily logged or thrown as an error message visible on the client. Instead, you must search through the logs for thrown errors and sometimes use trial-and-error and custom log messages to determine the exact source of the issue. For this reason, using try/catch() blocks in your server-side code can be a good idea. This is also true of client-side code in fact, but it is especially important with server-side code.

Note

While try/ catch() blocks are a great way to build in error-handling behavior, it should not be relied upon to control the flow of your code. They should only be used when the catch block can handle the error in some sensible way. (Otherwise, pass the error up the call stack and perhaps a higher-level...