How to generate history set via API

Jason McMunn
Kilo Contributor

I'm analyzing incidents for the last few months and I want to look at state and assignment group.  For any of them that have been recently browsed by a user the data is in sys_history_line.  The problem is that for ones that have not been viewed, there is no data. This seems pretty consistent with the documentation.

I don't want to pull from the sys_audit table, as that would be impactful and i've tried everything I can think of to trigger the history set to be built.  Finally i just wrote a script that opens them all in chrome.  There has to be a better way.  

Any advice much appreciated!

 
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GTSNOW
Giga Guru

Ideally these kind data should never be pulled from ServiceNow. It can impact the performance. You should always copy your data in a data warehouse and do the reporting.

I appreciate that and thanks for the wisdom, but this is a one time analysis to look for some behavior patterns in our service desk and engineering teams.  I'm not looking for a perpetual solution.