This article is Day 6 and last in the Bloaters category of a multi-post series about refactoring Code Smells. Code Smells are characteristics that can negatively impact code; ranging from hindered read-ability, clutter, unscale-able, even outdated pr...
Hi Everyone, I am a frequent ServiceNow Community User. I am sharing my views on how to avoid getRowCount and make a reusable function. Hope you enjoy reading this code description. /*------------Code Description---------------------*/ To get Aggre...
Hello Everyone, I would like to share a way to create a button to be used beside "DateTime" fields, which can be used by users to pick current date time in users date time format. Create a UI Macro with name "NowDateTimeIcon" with below code in XML f...
Please hit Like or Bookmark this article if it helps. For ServiceNow beginners:It's very important to understand how c.data, data, input, and other objects are related to each other, its the DNA of Service Portals. If you are interested in learning ...
This article is Day 5 of a multi-post series about refactoring Code Smells. Code Smells are characteristics that can negatively impact code; ranging from hindered read-ability, clutter, unscale-able, even outdated programming practices. Refactoring p...
Hi Developers, This is the second article in the series for integrating ServiceNow with Google Calendar to schedule a meeting. You need to follow the steps mentioned in the first article to continue with this post. Step 1) Navigate to System Web Serv...
We recently had a requirement come through asking us to bypass the current behavior for the Actual Start and Actual End Dates on the project task form. Today, these dates are auto populated via scripts that will grab the Planned Start Date and Planne...
Hi Developers, Welcome to another article in the series and the first on the scripting. Today we will talk about how to code smarter with Script Includes. Script Includes defines a function or class to be reusable server-side script logic that e...
Hello all, ServiceNow Application allow administrators to add social links feature to the user reference fields on form level. In case of ....cross-scope access policy issue, please set the client script table "sys_script_client" accessibility to A...
If you’re looking to provide users with another way to interact with content and help drive further engagement, the Revolution Slider plugin from WordPress is great for the Service Portal and can be incorporated through JavaScript web-based applicati...
Please hit Like or Bookmark this article if it helps. Use Cases: Where ever there is a need to add extra layer of authentication Try the below script in your background script. var userName = gs.getUserName();//Or any username say abel.tuter var pa...
You can receive XML or a simple string by calling a script include from a client script or UI macro. From experience, it's easiest to receive and parse an encoded json string. In some cases, using XML is useful. Therefore, we will discuss two cases. ...
This article is going to focus on using ServiceNow to manage the SAP Change Transport process through multiple instances. Overall the process is fairly simple and straight forward but I’ll elaborate more in the hopes that this helps someone out. We r...
Hi Friends! Wanted to share a widget I created that can be used on catalog items to enable the user to look up specific information on a record from the Service Portal. I developed this to be used as an embedded widget on a catalog item...when att...
Articles, Blogs, Videos, Podcasts, Share projects - Experiences from the field Hi there, Did you notice that when you set Breakpoints or Logpoints to a script field on the Platform UI, these stay "set" until you manually remove them? Even if you ...
As ServiceNow developers we know how time-consuming it is to import and transform large data sets. Starting with the Madrid release the baseline Concurrent Import Set feature was introduced, which presents a way to “multi-thread” data imports and is ...
UI scripts provide a way to package client-side JavaScript into a reusable form, similar to how script includes store server-side JavaScript. Developer can create UI scripts and run them from client scripts and other client-side script objects and fr...
Even after five months at ServiceNow, I still feel like a newbie. The platform and its capabilities are massive, and as soon as I think I have most of it figured out, someone stumps me with a question I have to go digging around to answer. Fortunatel...
I won't go into a lengthy article, but essentially out of sanity preservation I developed a universal (reusable) GlideAjax script include that does the following: Allows the developer to pass any table as a parameterAllows the developer to pass an en...
Intended Audience: Developers who write scripts Estimated Reading Time: 2-3 minutes The hype of GlideQuery gets me curious. What value does it bring over GlideRecord? After watching the K20 breakout session, GlideQuery: A modern upgrade to GlideR...
Lisa Latour
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