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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

Creating service requests from the Service-Now portal


As a beginner, you can co-relate the service requests with a web-based form like a movie booking, an exam form and so on, in which you need to enter your details only but depends on required information Service-Now form may be simple or complex. In this recipe, you will learn about the service requests of Service-Now. For better understanding let’s take a better example so if you want a laptop from your organization then on the service request form you might have to choose screen size, ram, hard drive and so on or many organization categories then laptop in the executive laptop, standard laptop, high configuration laptop.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you need an active Service-Now instance and valid credentials.

How to do it...

  1. Open any standard web browser.

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

  3. After login, you will be redirected to the Service-Now frontend/portal. Once you are on the main portal then in the Order Things section, click on the Hardware button:

    Service-Now Portal Menu Block

  4. After clicking on the Hardware button, you will be redirected to the catalog page where you can see all available catalogs. Now  select Sales Laptop Access form the options, after that you will be redirected to the following screen:

    Catalog item request form

  5. In the catalog item Sales Laptop Access request form, enter your name, describe your request, and click on Order Now. You will now be redirected to the following screen where you can view your request number, delivery date, stage, and price:

    Catalog item request order status

There's more…

Out of the box, Service-Now provides Service Catalog Application to support catalog itemandunder the application, Maintain Item module is available for viewing existing catalog item (Sales Laptop) or creating new catalog item.

Service-Now portal/end user view may be classified in many ways according to organization’s business and it is important to note that here may be many catalog items for serving different purpose like for facilities, legal, IT, procurement, marketing and so on.