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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

Workflow troubleshooting


A workflow may be considered as a tracker of a process. You can get to know the status of a request or any other item such as a contract management request or change management request.

Out of the box, in some modules, you are allowed to view the workflow using the show workflow button, but in some cases, you need to go through a different approach to view the status of request or task.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

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

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

  3. On the left-hand side, type workflow and under Workflow application. Now let’s understand some basics:

    Workflow troubleshooting

    • Active Contexts: This module is helpful to understand active workflows, so whatever workflow is being run in the system it would be available here.

    • All Contexts: This module stores all active and inactive...