Today I went to the ServiceNow UK User Group hosted by Harrods and Focus
Group Europe.It was my first outing to a user group and it was a really
great opportunity to meet customers and make new contac...
For the past year or so I've been working with large customers with
large deployment teams. This differs greatly from when I was a customer
with a team of two people configuring the platform. As a res...
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a great idea from Alex Yupanqui, who works
for ServiceNow, to create UI actions to allow users to directly edit a
graphical workflow from the associated record. I've taken...
I've heard a number of questions on how to use GlideAJAX to return
multiple values. It wasn't clear in the wiki (until now) how to do this
so most people were sending a string array of values to be pa...
Software as a Service, plus connu sous l'acronyme SaaS, est l'offre qui
tire l'ensemble des concepts du fameux Cloud. Avec une croissance í deux
chiffres, celle-ci est néanmoins freinée en raison de n...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...