Flashing a field in the list view

[SwarnadeepNandy]

Hi,

I am new to serviceNow. I was stuck in a problem. I want to flash a field in the list view of the table. The flashing will be based on, any update via email on a particular record.

I have tried a piece of simple javascript code in "Values" field in styles.

function initBlink()
{
    var state = false;
  setInterval(function()
    {
  state = !state;
    var color = (state?'red':'green');
  document.getElementById('test').style.color = color;
    }, 1000);
}

Looking forward for your help.

[bernyalvarado]

Great suggestion Jim!! Gifs are classic and always cool!

[epam · Accepted solution]

Hi, Swarnadeep.

If I understand your question properly, the incident is updated by inbound email actions.

So You can do following:

- the Inbound Email Actions script should mark the incident any way your prefer (e.g. current.comments = "incident was updated by email")

- As Berny Alvarado and Jim Coyne say: create a special style (using Field Styles) on a list based on a condition like this:

      javascript:current.comments.indexOf('updated by email') > 1

To create a flashing dot near some field (I tested it on Fuji): Upload an animated gif to System UI -> Images and write a field style like this:

      background:transparent url('flashing.gif') -20px -20px no-repeat;

- Create a List Button for incident table (System UI -> UI Action) with script like this:

function startReloadList(){

      location.reload();

}

setTimeout(function() { startReloadList(); }, 10000);

The script refreshes list every 10 seconds. Also You can insert "startReloadList()" into the onclick field to reload the list by the button.