Background Script does not show all scopes

[john_roberts]

How do I get all scopes to display in the background script scope selector? It seems like it will only show a max of 7 and it looks like it's sorted by created.

[chirag_bagdai]

Are you trying to run background script for applications which are downloaded? If so, you can't.

I believe, you can run a background script against only the apps which are created in same instance / author instance/ apps which are in Develop tab of applications / the apps from "sys_app" table

[Pascal R_]

Same issue here 4years later, 

One workaround is to create a business rule on a table which is in the right scope and trigger it with very selective condition "on update: comments added on record sys_id = ****);

then the script will find the records invisible due to scope restrictions previously.

I wonder if SN is ever going to fix it...