move business rule from global to application scope

[gflewis]

I have a business rule on a table that is owned by an application.   The scope of the business rule is global (sys_scope=='global').   How can I change it to application scope?

[Pradeep Sharma]

Hi Giles,

You may have need to move changes between global and private application scopes. For example:

• You want an application created in a prior release to be a scoped application.
• You want an application inadvertently made in the global scope to be in a private scope.
• You want an application inadvertently made in a private scope to be in the global scope.
• You want to move features from one private scope application to another private scope application.

In all cases, you must create a new application in the proper scope and manually move changes to it.

[Mike Allen · Accepted solution]

you can use background scripts to do that:

var br = new GlideRecord('<business rule table>');

br.get('<sys_id of your BR>');

br.sys_scope = '<your app scope>';

br.update();

[The SN Nerd]

I would advise caution around this approach, I don't think it is supported by ServiceNow.

[Mike Allen]

It's probably not, but I have not seen it cause issues.   Of course, I am the guy always dissecting update sets to get them to exactly what I want, and that isn't supported, either.