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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

Including the date in a report's e-mail notification


By default, Service-Now doesn't include dates in the subject of an e-mail notification. That's why many clients ask for the date to be included in the subject of e-mail notifications so that they can differentiate between the reports. In this recipe, we will learn to include the date in a report's e-mail notification.

Getting ready

For this recipe, all you need is an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and an admin role.

How to do it...

  1. Open a web browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer).

  2. Type the instance web address in the address bar.

  3. Log in to the Service-Now instance using credentials.

  4. On the left-hand side search box, type reports in the search box and select Scheduled Report module under Reports Application.

  5. Now open the Scheduled Execution of Last Month Incident Reportrecord.

  6. The Schedule Email of Report configuration page–Subjectfield supports javascript that's why we can also include a declaration...