Send Email Notification with Scheduled Job

Community Alums · ‎10-08-2020

Hi All,

I have a requirement to send an email notification on a certain day of the month. I am trying to achieve this through an event using a scheduled job.

This is what I have so far in Dev to test this -

Event

Scheduled job

Notification

I believe the issue is with the script for the scheduled job?

Or is there a different/easier way to achieve this?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Alex

asifnoor · ‎10-08-2020

Okay. Then do it like this in your scheduled job.

var gr = new GlideRecord("incident");

gr.setLimit(1);

gr.query();

if(gr.next()) {

gs.eventQueue('patching_email',gr,gs.getUserName(),gs.getUserID());

}

Event/notification runs on a specific record. Since in your case, its just a static mail.. we just pass any 1 incident object. Hence using setLimit(1).

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Anurag Tripathi · ‎10-08-2020

In the scheduled job you are passing gr but it is not defined, you should ideally use a glide record query for the record the email should be sent for, that would be your GR.

For Eg,

the scheduled job would be something like

gar gr = new GlideRecord('incident');

gr.get('<sys_id of an incident>');

gs.eventQueue('patching_email', gr, 'abc@example.com', '');

In this case the email would refer to the incident associated with gr

-Anurag

Community Alums · ‎10-08-2020

Hi Anurag,

Thanks for you help.

Can you please explain this one a bit more, I'm not sure why I have to include a sys_id of an incident and an email? And if I do, can this be any incident?

Thanks,
Alex

Anurag Tripathi · ‎10-08-2020

An email in ServiceNow is trigger against a record, it can be an incident, change, anything like that.

Can you tell me what is your email and what will it contain?

-Anurag

Community Alums · ‎10-08-2020

Hi Anurag,

The email is only text, it does not need to include any information regarding tickets.

Thanks!
Alex