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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

Sharing with Share


ServiceNow customers are rather creative. The platform has been used to build some amazing developer functions, useful tweaks, and powerful utilities. To help everyone benefit from ideas from the platform, the ServiceNow Share portal is designed to bring them all together in a very accessible manner. You can visit the ServiceNow Share portal at https://share.servicenow.com/.

Any customer can submit an Update Set to be stored on Share. This is then available for other customers to download and use as they wish. Some of the more popular items on Share are as follows:

  • Dynamic Knowledge Search provides a means to automatically search the knowledge base
  • Xplore: Developer Toolkit adds extra features to understand server- and client-side JavaScript objects, visualise the table structure, and test regular expressions
  • Client-Side PDF Document Generatorallows you to create custom PDF documents from a record
  • File Builder FTP exports data from the instance and uses a MID server to save...