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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

Setting up system rules


Out of the box, Service-Now provides data lookup and assignment rules to automatically assign a task to users or groups.

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. Log in to the Service-Now instance with the credentials.

  3. Type system policy in the search box and service-now will search system policy application, and under the rule section you can find all related module such as Data lookup Definitions, Assignment Lookup Rules, Assignment, and so on:

    System Policy - rules

  4. To assign values in the assigned to or assignment group fields, you can use assignment look up:

  5. Click on the Assignment Lookup Rules module, as shown here:

    Create new assignment look up rule

  6. You will now be able to see the assignment rule configuration page:

    • Name: Hardware Assignment

    Assignment rule part 1

  7. Now, you need to set conditions for the assignment, as follows:

    • Category: Hardware...