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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

How to configure a timer in workflows


On many occasions, business requirements are based on time so let's understand this by an example: Send a reminder e-mail for the approver for a request approval or hold the e-mail if you want to send a notification periodically based on the requirements. The important thing to note down is that in such scenarios, you need to configure the time in the workflow. For facilitating a time-related feature, Service-Now provides the Timer activity, which pauses the workflow for a specified period of time.

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. Follow the same process as the last recipe and open Apple Ipad3 | Workflow | Procurement Process Flow - Mobile as shown in the following screenshot.

  4. Now drag and drop the Timer activity in to the workflow...