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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 an e-mail notification script


On many occasions, the required information which is stored in another table or related tables, and in such cases, an e-mail notification script is recommended to be used to fetch relevant information from related tables, such as getting the requester's e-mail address which is in user table of Service-Now.

Getting ready

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

How to do it…

  1. Open any standard web browser and type the instance Web address.

  2. Log in to the Service-Now instance using your credentials.

  3. On the left-hand side in the search box, type Notification Email Scripts, and Service-Now will search out the module for you as follows:

    Notification E-mail Scripts

  4. Click on the Notification Email Script module. Now you will be able to see, out-of-the-box Email Scripts on the screen. In order to create a new e-mail script, click on the New button:

    E-mail script configuration - List View

  5. The e-mail...