What is $sp.do and why is it tagged as a public page in the sys_public table?

James Fricker · ‎06-19-2019

Anyone know, what is $sp.do and why is it tagged as a public page in the sys_public table?

nathanfirth · ‎06-19-2019

$sp.do is the core Service Portal UI Page that lives on the ServiceNow file system. It is marked as public since Service Portal pages can be marked as public.

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Mike Allen · ‎06-19-2019

It is the body of the service portal home page without the banner at the top.

James Fricker · ‎06-19-2019

If I go to a OOTB developer instance when not logged-in.

/sp is the service portal home page and presents with a header, a login widget and a knowledge widget

/$sp (and /$sp.do) is completely blank

Are you sure it is the body of the service portal home page without the banner?

nathanfirth · ‎06-19-2019

It’s technically not “the body”, it’s the UI page the contains the full angular.js app that is Service Portal. If you don’t use a URL suffix (e.g. /sp) then there is no theme, hence the missing header. You can try replacing /sp with $sp.do and it will render the page: /$sp.do?id=index

Mike Allen · ‎06-20-2019

Nathan,

Is this what an angular directive is? I have heard the pages that start with the $ being called a directive generically. I have to admit that I am a backend guy, so the front end terminology gets a little lost on me.

Thanks.