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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

Inbound e-mail action - reply


Replies to inbound e-mail actions are primarily for updating support tickets, such as incident tasks, problem tasks, and change tasks. For processing an e-mail that begins with Reply prefixes, a new inbound e-mail action should be created with the Reply type so that the Service-Now mailbox can take appropriate action for the incoming (replied) e-mail. For instance, if a support group member is replying on a supporting ticket, then comments will be updated as additional comments in the 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, type inbound email action, and Service-Now will search out the module for you.

  4. Click on Inbound Email Actions, and then click on the New button.

  5. Configure the main section of the inbound...