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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

Viewing and running reports


Service-Now can provide reports in Excel, PDF, and image formats, but regarding business reporting, where business heads, managers, or executives ask for reports, Service-Now reporting seems to be weak. It is worth including a few scenarios here: Every company has their own format or reporting template, which may include a logo, styles, color combination, or reports on different report sheets in the same Excel workbook; this kind of reporting is not feasible from Service-Now. In this recipe, you will see how to view and run already existing reports in the Service-Now environment.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need an active Service-Now instance and valid credentials or a valid role. If you have a role as an admin, ITIL, report group, or group admin, then you can access Service-Now reports.

How to do it...

  1. Open the standard browser and type web address of Service-Now.
  2. Log in to service-now using your credentials.
  3. In the search box, type reports, and Service-Now...