Have you put a ding in the universe?

Steve Jobs once said that he wanted to put a ding or make an impact in the universe. Which he did in spades by bringing us some of the most innovative products. You, our customers are making an impact...

I am a creator - Create Newsletters inside ServiceNow

I was recently asked to provide a newsletter for several internal teams within our company. The first few months were a pain as I had to use an HTML editor to generate a decent looking newsletter each...

Scriptable REST Message Library

ServiceNow has always been great to make traditionally difficult integration interfaces easy to setup and execute. This typically translates into a lot of point and click activities.For the die-hard c...

A Single Version of the Truth: THE Innovation of the (15th) Century!

Sometimes, the past is prologue. It just takes a while for current reality to catch up with the foreshadowing.Take IT innovations that have transformed how business is done. By my lights, three of the...

MFD? WTF? Stop thinking mobile first and start thinking mobile always.

This isn't 1972. Stop adding "...Gate" to anything vaguely scandalous. Nor is it 1978 and we're not in Jonestown. Stop drinking (laced) Kool-Aid.We're equally guilty of language apathy in the enterpri...

It takes a team...

Application development is usually a team effort. Dublin introduces a brand new feature to help teams collaborate easily whether to create a new application, make an enhancement to an existing applica...

Don't Just Create — Collaborate and Share, Now!

Once you've discovered or created something interesting, useful or cool, whether it's digital content or a delicious dessert based on a new recipe, what's the very next thing you're likely to do with ...

PaaS is passé. Why application creators are eating the world.

Marc Andreessen, internet wunderkind of Netscape fame who deserves credit for making web geekery cool, famously claimed in 2011 that "software is eating the world." He cited that in a decade, the cost...

Pass Form data to a Popup Dialog Window

There are several good examples on blogs and the ServiceNow wiki of creating a popup-style dialog box to show form or list data from another ServiceNow form. I wanted to use those examples to create y...

App creation made easier in Dublin!

There are so many new features to support custom application creation in in Dublin to get excited about. I am going to highlight the top threeTeam Development — This is the first native, distributed v...

Are you a creator?

Have you ever wondered why you can access thousands of apps on your phone, yet are stuck with e-mail and spreadsheets to do work in your enterprise? And wished there was an app for that? ServiceNow cr...

TechNow Ep 1 | ServiceNow Jelly Scripting - Part 1 of 3

Welcome to TechNow - the web series for ServiceNow developers and administrators on a variety of Now Platform topics. New episodes are available roughly once a month from subject matter experts. In th...

Use an email with an attachment to create a Data Source, Load Data, and Run Transform

The method below was originally published on Oct 25, 2012, is an outdated process Please see the following post for help! > Loading data from an email attachment I had a number of people respond to th...