Gamification is a great way to add incentives for users to explore and use the service portal repeatedly. In our Knowledge18 session, we demonstrated how to implement gamification in the Service Portal to introduce users to the portal and encourage t...
In Service Operations Workspace, the Problem Overview -> Impact section shows counts for related records such as Incidents and Tasks. However, Change Requests are not shown out of the box. In this article, we’ll walk through how to add the count of r...
Overview ServiceNow supports dynamic option management for dropdown (choice) fields using built-in APIs. However, radio button fields do not have the same out-of-the-box (OOB) support. This article explains: The difference between dropdown vs radio ...
While I was working with notifications, I realized that there are some incredibly useful and neglected parts of ServiceNow that sometimes aren’t used to their fullest potential. I’d like to go over one of them right now, gs.eventQueue. One thing se...
For table fields, ServiceNow provides a very useful Conditions field type which essentially adds a condition builder to a form and stores the corresponding encoded query as its value. However, there is no OOTB equivalent Conditions variable type for ...
Creating a record with user input data If you want to create a record using user input from your form or other component on your page, you can use this guide. In this example, I was taking input from 2 input components in a modal and creating a new i...
Introduction Tables are the foundation of ServiceNow. Every piece of data — whether it’s an incident, a user record, or a custom business object — is stored in a table. Understanding how tables work, how they are related, and how to create and custom...
Let's say there is a need to show a list of groups (on Service Portal) in which the selected user (via Reference Variable) is either a member or manager. The records in that list should be clickable and they should redirect to a group record in a ne...
Hey ServiceNow community! You might have overlooked a major update—ReleaseOps has arrived, and it could transform the way we manage deployments! If you’ve ever faced challenges with Update Sets or rolled out apps across environments, this feels lik...
Hey there, techies! Do you ever feel like JSON is just too plain and boring? It's like staring at a wall of text with no structure or organization. Well, fear not my friends, because JSON.stringify() is here to save the day!Now, you might be wonderin...
TL;DR The on-before business rule script is at the bottom of this article, but it is worth reading through to understand what it is achieving and how it affects you. Introduction I have been asked (and pondered the same myself) whether we could auto...
Here are some tips related to guided tours: - Guided Tours are always created in Global App, even if you are creating them for Portals, like ESC or CSM. They only way to transport them to other instances is if they are in the Global App. -For creatin...
Articles, Blogs, Videos, Podcasts, Share projects - Experiences from the field Hi there, Instance Scan, one of the best things of ServiceNow, though also horribly underutilized by customers. Out-of-the-box the free Instance Scan application comes...
Articles, Blogs, Videos, Podcasts, Share projects - Experiences from the field Hi there, Instance Scan, you got to love it . It's one the most powerful features on the ServiceNow platform in my opinion. Okay, I'm a bit biased, being the person wo...
Get XML wait For those of you that are not familiar with GlideAjax. getXMLWait() is a Synchronous GlideAjax call. Meaning your script cannot continue without the GlideAjax response. This stops the session until the response is received. How to use g...
Hi all, I've seen this question asked a lot on the forums in various ways and majority of the responses point to either an old Guru (3rd party website) article that's a bit outdated or the response involves some sort of complex solution that majority...
Hello Everyone, I recently came up with a useful solution to help deployments move along a bit more seamlessly for my organization. Our team uses the Agile Development application to create and track work for our sprints. We also use Update Sets to ...
A common requirement is to redirect users to specific portals dependent on the roles that they have. For example, if you have an internal Employee Center portal, and an external Customer Service Management portal, you might want your users to be redi...
Let's say we are stuck in a situation where we have lots of catalog items in which we have a reference variable which is referring User [sys_user] table, and it is the beauty of our implementation that we did not use the variable set in this case. U...
Connecting ServiceNow to external systems via REST APIs is fundamental. While authentication can be complex, API Key credentials offer a straightforward method. This article explains how these credentials work for outbound REST API calls, when to use...
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