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Hardware Asset Management (HAM)

bharathkumar Da
Tera Contributor

Hi Team
I am working on Hardware Asset Management (HAM) in ServiceNow.

Requirement:

When the State field in the alm_hardware table is changed to “In Use”, the custom field u_installed_by should be automatically populated
Thanks and Regards
Bharath

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jonsan09
Tera Sage

Is the 'u_installed_by ' a reference field to sys_user? Who/what are you trying to populate that custom field with the user assigned to the asset, the user updating the record, or something else? 

Hi Jonsan

es, u_installed_by is a reference field to sys_user.

The requirement is to auto-populate u_installed_by with the value from the Assigned to field when the State of the asset changes to “In Use”.
Regards
Bharath

 

In that case you could probably use a simple business rule to populate the field like pictured below. I'd probably recommend a BR over a Client Script/UI Action, as discovery sources might cause the assigned to field to be updated. 

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What is the purpose of 'u_installed_by' and why would/should it be the same as 'assigned_to'?