How do you check impact of new installed plugins on existing table manually ?

[Kartik Choudha1]

Any idea/tips on approaches to do this activity that you follow ?

[Community Alums]

Hi @Kartik Choudha1 ,

 PLease follow this article :https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-blog/manually-and-automatically-capture-dependencies-...

[Kartik Choudha1]

Thanks sandeep

[Kartik Choudha1 · Accepted solution]

Well, As I have done the analysis. Below are some points which we covered while doing this to check any impact of particular plugin upgrade or installation to any of the table related to our project work.

Go to the Plugin Installation History from Navigation.

Search your plugin and open it.

Have a deep check on all the related tab records, So impact analysis on Changes Applied records.

Prepare a list of tables related to you project or you want to check particular table if that is updated with any of the ACL, roles etc.

Have a check on the records which are skipped, updated, installed or ignored while plugin upgradation.

Check on ACL's, if any role is over-riden or ACL is changed etc.

Check on Script include method, if any of the method is manipulating the table records etc.

Dictionary check.

And many more, An overview check is needed here.

Cross check for if any other team in the project is impacted or not.

Thanks,