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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 development best practice


Service-now recommends that you follow the product development best practices for rapid development and for enhancing the performance.

Getting ready

Getting the desired result is not very difficult, but getting the desired result by following the best practices is a challenge in itself. If development works were not done by following the best practices, you may face performance issues, frequent incidents, and so on.

How to do it...

  1. The client script loads on the service-now form before the UI policy. It is recommended that you use a minimum number of client scripts as the client script slows down the form Please follow http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Client_Script_Best_Practices link to read more about client script best practices.

  2. It is recommended that you use the UI policy instead of a client script whenever you want to customize the behavior of any service-now form.

  3. It is recommended that you use less server lookups. Server lookups may slow...