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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

UI pages


UI pages are pages of script and XML that exist all across the ServiceNow platform. There are many UI pages that you will see as you navigate through ServiceNow, including the home pages for the service catalog and knowledge. UI pages are also a way to make custom pages where you can define everything that appears on the page.

Let's look at creating a new UI page. We start by giving our UI page a name; make sure you make a note of the name, as it will be needed to reference the page later on. The category field is mainly for reference and does not provide any additional functionality. It can be helpful for grouping your UI pages.

There are three fields that can contain code in a UI page; they are:

  • HTML
  • Client script
  • Processing script

The HTML field is where the Jelly script is held, and ServiceNow provides the tags for you to start your Jelly coding:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null...