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ServiceNow Application Development

By : Sagar Gupta
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ServiceNow Application Development

By: Sagar Gupta

Overview of this book

ServiceNow provides service management for every department in the enterprise, including IT, Human Resources, Facilities, Field Service, and more. This book focuses on all the steps required to develop apps and workflows for any of your business requirements using ServiceNow. You will start with the first module, which covers the basics of ServiceNow and how applications are structured; how you can customize the dashboard as required; and also how to create users. After you get used to the dashboard, you will move on to the next module, Applications and Tables, where you will learn about working with different tables and how you can create a scope other than the global scope for your application. The next module is Scripting and APIs, where you will learn Scripting in ServiceNow and use powerful APIs to develop applications. The final module, Administration Essentials, covers debugging, advanced database features, and scheduled script creation. By the end of the book you will have mastered creating organized and customer-friendly applications
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to ServiceNow

Chapter 10. Events and Notifications

Now that we have learned about and created client and server-side scripts, including UI pages and macros with Jelly scripts, let us learn about the concepts of events and notifications.

In the ServiceNow platform, events and notifications are among the features that are the easiest to implement. Events are used to monitor changes or events by event handlers, just like in any other programming language. Events in ServiceNow are stored in a table named Event (sysevent), which is also referred to as Event Log or Event Queue. Events in the queue are consumed by script actions or notifications that in turn execute scripts or trigger notifications.

Notification, on the other hand, is the system in place within the ServiceNow platform to send our e-mail or SMS notifications to the end users. Any form or script sending out an e-mail replies to the notification feature of the platform. Notifications can be sent when an event occurs or is scheduled to go out at a...