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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By : Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By: Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications, giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. This course will show you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world. We will introduce key concepts and examples on managing and automating IT services, and help you build a solid foundation towards this new approach. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events, and notifications. We’ll then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Further on, you’ll learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. At the end of this course, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining ServiceNow from the following Packt books: 1. Learning ServiceNow 2. ServiceNow Cookbook 3. Mastering ServiceNow, Second Edition
Table of Contents (39 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
36
Bibliography

Getting into the client script


Client scripts run on the browser side and use JavaScript as native. Click on https://www.codecademy.com/learn/javascript to read more about javascript. Client scripts can be used to put validation on a Service-Now form and for customization of Service-Now behavior, such as making any field read-only, mandatory, or hidden. Note that it's not advisable to use a client-side script to customize the behavior of a form as it impacts the form performance. Out of the box, Service-Now provides many client-side functions to perform operations.

Getting ready

To go through this recipe, you should have an active Service-Now instance and valid credentials with an admin role.

How to do it…

  1. Open any standard web browser and type the instance address.
  2. Log in to the Service-Now instance with the valid credentials.
  3. On the left-hand side, type Author Registration, click on the right module on the header, as shown, and select Client Scripts:

Client scripts

  1. Now you will able to see client...