Video: Community Live Stream - API Adventures - Scripted REST APIs and Service Portal Widgets

[Chuck Tomasi]

Discover how to use a scripted REST API to interface with your Service Portal widget and abstract the server processing logic from your widget while gaining a custom API.

Episode topics include:

• Widget review
• Scripted REST API review
• Building a subflow
• Calling the subflow from a scripted REST API
• Calling the scripted REST API from the widget client script

Code snippets can be found in the GitHub repository.

References:

• Learn JavaScript on the Now Platform
• ServiceNow Developer Site
• ServiceNow Developer meetups
• Book: No-Code Apps For Dummies
• Docs: Flow API - Scoped, Global (Paris)
• Docs: Scripted REST APIs
• Docs: Scripted REST APIs good practices

Community Live Stream is a show for ServiceNow admins and developers who want to go beyond getting answers in the community. Gain insight and knowledge from the experts about how those answers are obtained and apply them to your role to be more effective. Find us on YouTube and Twitch.

Watch live Mondays and Thursdays at 2PM UTC