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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

Summary


This long chapter moved away from the foundations of ServiceNow and dealt with understanding how you can get work done in ServiceNow in more detail. The Task table is the basis of most applications-it provides the single place that all tickets are stored in. Over 60 fields have already been created, with logic built around them. This means reporting is much easier, consistency is improved, and implementation time is reduced.

The Graphical Workflow can control any table but is especially useful for Tasks. It provides a drag-and-drop interface, allowing you to chain activities together. It is integrated into the SLA system and is the best way to deal with approvals. Users and groups can be asked for their opinion, which the workflow can then use to decide the course of a task.

The Service Catalog presents a different interface to end users. Record Producers can collect information that then gets turned into a task or any other record.

Some Service Catalog items also make heavy use of...