what is dictionary override

[rajasekharyasam]

what is dictionary override

[Akshat Chawla]

Hi,

For Dictionary Override details, please refer to below wiki link. It would be helpful

http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Dictionary_Overrides

[anurag92]

When a table is inherited from another table (for eg. Incident table is inherited from Task table, so Task table is parent table), all the fields from Parent are present in Child table. But when a type of particular field/column needs to be changed in a child table, it is called Dictionary override For instance: Description field in Task table might be of type journal, but in Incident it is supposed to have better formatting like HTML, so a dictionary override is created to change the type.

[amitku39]

Wow!!! What a simple elaboration. Liked it.

[dasthu1]

Hi Rajasekhar,

Dictionary overrides provide the ability to define a field on an extended table differently from the field on the parent table. For example, for a field on the Task [task] table, a dictionary override can change the default value on the Incident [incident] table without affecting the default value on Task [task] or on Change [change].

Administrators can override these aspects of a field:

Thanks,
Dasthagiri K

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