Comparing Client Dates

I just came across a case where someone was comparing two date fields on the client to validate that the one was later than the other. To accomplish this they created a script include to compare dates...

Walking to find all tasks.. for all relationships..

I had an interesting challenge set to me by Paul Hardy of Informa recently.He has a CMDB in his ServiceNow instance which defines his applications and its dependancies on his Infrastructure.His reques...

Show a Table Schema Map from any Form

Table schema maps are a very useful tool to aid in visualizing the setup of a table and its relationships to other tables and fields in ServiceNow. This functionality is something that every ServiceNo...

Planning for Major Incidents

Over at "The ITSM Review" I talk about Major Incident planningThe topic came up during a conversation with a customer about the best way to handle Major Incidents. We agreed that it doesn't require a ...

Improving your ITSM system in a release driven way [Part 3]

My last couple of blog posts have been about Improving your ITSM system in a release driven way.If you missed them go back and read Part 1 and Part 2The aim of thinking in a release driven way is to m...

Additional SAML 2.0 configuration settings

Over the past few months I have had a number of clients contact me with issues regarding SAML 2.0. Due to the complexity of SAML 2.0, and the plethora of options associated with the specification, the...

Copying a Variable Set with variables, client scripts, and UI Policies

I recently had a situation where I was copying lots of variable sets, and the "Insert and Stay" UI Action was getting used all too frequently. So I decided to create a "Copy" UI Action to make a copy ...

Ask Why

It's quite likely that if you're reading this, at some point you'll be approached to add a field to a form, create a report, or change the system's behavior. Before jumping in and making that 2 minute...

CMS and Knowledge - Pasting from Word

Whose got 2 thumbs and is horrified every time they look at the Microsoft Word Generated HTML? This guy right here. Knowing full well that pasting from Word is a fast and simple method for knowledge c...

Your IT Department: To protect and serve (??)

Interesting exchange on Twitter this morning about the role of the IT Department and asking the question - are we scared of losing control.it made me think - are we there to "Protect" or to "Serve"? O...

In a public Knowledge Base, make an article visible to ESS users but not unauthenticated users

One limitation of making the Knowledge Base public is that you lose the distinction between an ESS user (without roles) and a user who is not logged in. You can't have an article that Joe Employee can...

Pre Conference training for Knowledge 12 LIVE!

Hi everyone - I'm really excited to announce we've posted the courses for Knowledge 12 Pre Conference training. You are probably familiar with our classes around Admin and Scripting, but we've also ad...

Exporting Service Catalog Items in One Step

This post comes in response to a request I received from some of my colleagues at ServiceNow to be able to export a catalog item definition to XML and transport it between instances. I've written befo...

Getting Kerberos Authentication to work with ADFS and ServiceNow via SAML

If 2011 was the year of ADFS SAML 2.0 implementations in ServiceNow, then 2012 looks like it will be the year of Kerberos Authentication with ADFS and ServiceNow.Over the past few weeks I have had a n...

Data crunching your ServiceNow - month by month

I had an interesting task yesterday... Take a ServiceNow table and retrospectively create month end statistics.We are defining some new Key Performance Indicators for a process that we run internally,...

Shortcut for tasks without links

I was just reviewing all the cool things I do in Quicksilver so I could record a video highlight reel (hopefully posted in the near future). Even though Quicksilver is the bomb I just thought of an ev...

Improving your ITSM system in a release driven way [Part 2]

Last week I blogged about Improving your ITSM system in a release driven way.. The idea is to control the backlog of requests for enhancements to your ServiceNow system and get them into production wi...

How to Create CI UI Macro Actions for the Affected CIs List

The ability to associate Affected Configuration Items against a task is one of the most basic pieces of the various task forms in ServiceNow. ServiceNow gives you the 'Configuration Item' field to ass...

Improving your ITSM system in a release driven way [Part 1]

Running a long term ITSM transition feels a lot like spinning plates.As I've said before on The ITSM Review I feel that organisations should start small, with a sub-set of ITSM processes and work thei...

Where is the Order Guide Item Attachment Love?

So where is the Order Guide Item Attachment love? On a normal catalog item you are able to attach files, however when using that same catalog item within an order guide, there is no attachment icon. H...