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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

Chapter 9. Debugging the Script

In this chapter, we will be taking a look at debugging. Debugging is a very important aspect of creating working ServiceNow scripts. We will be taking a look at the script and session debugger, and how these are both used. We will then look at field watchers, debugging applications, the JavaScript log, and debug window. Finally, we will see how to debug REST and SOAP messages in a ServiceNow instance.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • The script debugger
  • The session debugger
  • The Field Watcher
  • Debugging applications
  • The JavaScript Log and Debug window
  • Debugging REST
  • SOAP debugging