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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

Task table


The Task table is one of the most important tables in the ServiceNow instance. Many tables extend the Task table. Thus, it is the parent class of many other tables, such as Incident, Change Task, Problem, and so on. Using the Tables modules, we can open the Task table entry to view a list of all available columns under the Columns tab, as shown in the following screenshot. We can optionally view the Schema map of the Task table to see all the tables that are extending and related to the Task table:

We can use the pagination on the top right corner of the list to browse through the entire record set. As always, clicking on the info icon will bring up the Dictionary Entry detail form page.

Furthermore, to view a list of tables that extends the Task table, as shown in the following screenshot, open the Tables modules again and use the quick filter on the top of the content frame to search for records where the Extends table starts with Task and press the Enter (return) key to perform...