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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

Inbound e-mail action - reply


Replies to inbound e-mail actions are primarily for updating support tickets, such as incident tasks, problem tasks, and change tasks. For processing an e-mail that begins with Reply prefixes, a new inbound e-mail action should be created with the Reply type so that the Service-Now mailbox can take appropriate action for the incoming (replied) e-mail. For instance, if a support group member is replying on a supporting ticket, then comments will be updated as additional comments in the Service-Now.

Getting ready

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

How to do it…

  1. Open any standard web browser and type the instance Web address.
  2. Log in to the Service-Now instance using your credentials.
  3. On the left-hand side, type inbound email action, and Service-Now will search out the module for you.
  4. Click on Inbound Email Actions, and then click on the New button.
  5. Configure the main section of the inbound...