Developer Instance - Choose company name?

[toneyvecchio1]

Greetings everyone, when wanting to start writing your own app in the Developer Instance - what is the best practice for using company name for app scopes?

Ex: x_1234_appshortname

If we wanted to not change it later, can we select our own? Can this be managed later if backed up to git and restored in a new developer instance?

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi Toney,

Short answer, no. You cannot change it. Developer instances generally don't have a customer code. You'll see the scope prefix is just x_ not x_snc. Changing it later could potentially break things with the SerivceNow App repo used by customers to publish/install apps between their own instances or download from the store.

[Pradeep Sharma]

Hi Toney,

This string is two to five characters long. ServiceNow, Inc. generates this prefix for each customer. The same will be carried forward if in future you decide to join TPP programm to publish the app on store with the same instance https://store.servicenow.com/$appstore.do#!/store/home

However if you don't want your personal dev instance to be converted at the time of joining TPP programme then you will get new company code(it will be based on your company name but still servicenow will generate this prefix and you will not have control) for each vendor instance assigned to you.

http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Application_Scope#gsc.tab=0

i hope this helps