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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 an inbound e-mail action


E-mails are very convenient for users. Many end users like to send an e-mail rather than using a helpdesk application. Service-Now provides an out-of-the-box functionality: an inbound e-mail action for processing incoming e-mails to 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 the credentials.

  3. On the left-hand side, type inbound action, and Service-Now will search out the Inbound Action module for you:

    Inbound action

  4. Click on the Inbound Email Actions module; you will see the following screen:

    Inbound Email Action - List

  5. To create a new inbound e-mail action, click on the New button. You will be able to see a configuration page and you can configure it as follows:

    • Name: In this field, you can provide any desired name, like I've used Inbound integration...