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Mastering ServiceNow Scripting

By : Andrew Kindred
Book Image

Mastering ServiceNow Scripting

By: Andrew Kindred

Overview of this book

Industry giants like RedHat and NetApp have adopted ServiceNow for their operational needs, and it is evolving as the number one platform choice for IT Service management. ServiceNow provides their clients with an add-on when it comes to baseline instances, where scripting can be used to customize and improve the performance of instances. It also provides inbuilt JavaScript API for scripting and improving your JavaScript instance. This book will initially cover the basics of ServiceNow scripting and the appropriate time to script in a ServiceNow environment. Then, we dig deeper into client-side and server-side scripting using JavaScipt API. We will also cover advance concepts like on-demand functions, script actions, and best practices. Mastering ServiceNow Scripting acts as an end-to-end guide for writing, testing, and debugging scripts of ServiceNow. We cover update sets for moving customizations between ServiceNow instances, jelly scripts for making custom pages, and best practices for all types of script in ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience in scripting ServiceNow using inbuilt JavaScript API.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Script examples


In this chapter, we have seen how to script in Jelly and how to create a UI page ourselves. Let's bring these two abilities together to make a working UI macro.

This is an example of a request I have been asked for before – an approval summary on the group approval record. Here, we need to create a UI macro and a formatter to add to the group approval form.

Let's start with our group approval summarizer code, creating a brief summary of the task record we will be approving with our group approval:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
  <tr>
    <td class="label_left" width="100%">
      <label style="margin-left: 12px"> Summary of Record being requested for approval:
        <g:label_spacing/> 
      </label>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <table width="100%">
       <tr>
          <td class=...