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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

Using Angular and Jelly


We could spend far more time on Jelly. It has huge capability, including a comprehensive mechanism for controlling caching, but the mechanism for ensuring that data and variables are in the right place can quickly become very complicated. Instead, Jelly is often used as the launch point for launching an Angular page. Using a UI Page means you have complete control over how it all works.

Using Angular to say hello

While Angular is used throughout ServiceNow-and especially in Service Portal-you should use your own copy of the library in UI Pages to avoid any compatibility problems. This is the first step to using custom Angular in action.

  1. DownloadAngular from https://angularjs.org/. You need version 1 rather than 2; and I'm using version 1.4.12-use that if you have any problems. A direct link is https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.12/angular.min.js.

 

  1. In ServiceNow, navigate to System UI > UI Scripts. This is the place (as mentioned in Chapter 3,Server...