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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

Transferring update sets between instances


Once an update set has been completed, it is ready to be transferred to another instance.  Transferring update sets between instances takes a few steps, and once initially set up, it can be a quick process.

To start the process of moving an update set between two instances, we first need to log in to the instance we want to move the update set to, or the destination instance. Then we navigate to System Update Sets | Update Sources and click New.

We can see the new update source screen in Figure 11.3:

Figure 11.3: New update source form

On this form, there are some key fields to fill in. Let's start with the mandatory fields first: Name and URL. The Name field is exactly that – a name to give to our update source so a system admin can easily recognize this update source. This is often the name of the instance we are taking the update set from, or the source instance. The URL field needs to be the URL of the source instance in the format <instance_name...