Amit Gujarathi
Giga Sage
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ServiceNow introduction to remote table | ServiceNow remote table to retrieve a table from an external source

Hi All,
I hope you're doing great.


In today's tutorial, we will look into a great concept in ServiceNow: Remote tables.

 

Remote Table :

  • You can create a Remote table to define a schema for the data you want to retrieve from an external source.
  • Table definitions reside in the Now Platform, but rows, or external records, reside in memory.
  • Creating a remote table is similar to creating an internal table.
  • As with an internal table, you define columns and controls and assign application access. Unlike an internal table, a remote table does not get its records from the Now Platform database.
  • It gets its records from running an associated script against an external data source.

Procedure to create Remote table:

  • Navigate to System Definition -- Remote Tables -- Tables.
  • Click New.
  • On the form, fill in the fields.

 

Agenda:

  • What is ServiceNow Remote table
  • What are the advantages of the ServiceNow Remote table
  • How we can create ServiceNow Remote table
  • Pulling data from an external source in ServiceNow Remote table
  • Demo

 

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Comments
Amarnadh
Tera Contributor

How to create records in remote table using background script/scheduled job? Amit Gujarathi 

Jagandeep
Tera Explorer

Fantastic explanation and demo! 

Yashaswini _
Tera Explorer

Can we increase the Cache TTL of Remote table beyond 3600 seconds? if yes what steps we need to follow.

Ans also can we refresh/reload the Remote table using scheduled Jobs?

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