Cheat sheet - to understand where to use which - global object

[Anish Reghu]

Dear experts,

Is there a cheat sheet or reference which lists ALL the commonly used global objects - like gs (Glide System), g_user, etc. and MAINLY where to use it?

For example - this article in SNGuru tells about gs and g_user - likewise I need it for all objects in one place. Does such thing exist somewhere documented?

Regards,

Anish

[Maik Skoddow · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anish Reghu 

I can understand your desire for such an overall view, but to my mind it is not possible to get one.

Starting with the official documentation at https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference you just can try to find as many as possible "cheat sheets". In different channels like LinkedIn, Slack, Twitter people are posting their findings - especially the undocumented stuff. And as we don't know undocumented objects else are out there, you never can be sure to have everything.

And two times a year we have a new family release with even more new APIs, so it is nearly impossible to be up-to-date.

Kind regards
Maik

[Anish Reghu]

Got it, but at least the ones in regular use - have you come across them being documented somewhere?

The reason I am asking this - For someone new into scripting - they need to always refer to while on a scripting editor:

Can I use 'gs' here?.... etc...

Regards,

Anish

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

I don't think ServiceNow docs has anything around this in their portal.

Regards
Ankur

[Anish Reghu]

Thanks Ankit. But I was actually looking out for even external references, if any.

Regards,

Anish