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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 the system dictionary


The system dictionary is a special table that contains details for each table and definitions for every column on each table in an instance. Being an admin, you are allowed to modify tables and fields.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you should have an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and admin role.

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 company in the address bar. Now, enter your credentials in respective fields.

  3. On the left-hand side, in the search box, type dictionary. Under the System Definition application, you will able to see the Dictionary module:

    Dictionary Module

  4. Click on Dictionary module. After click you will able to view screen as shown in the following screenshot. To create new dictionary entry click New button:

    Dictionary Entries- List View

  5. After clicking New, you will able to see configuration page as shown in the...