Argal Argument Puzzler...

The two developers at right (you know they don't work here, dressed like that!) were having quite the argument the other day. Brian asserted, spittle flying, that it's impossible in JavaScript to have...

How to Create a Login Terms and Conditions Dialog That Really Works!

ServiceNow provides various methods for logging users into an instance. Local login, LDAP, SAML, and Digested Token are all used pretty regularly by customers. One thing that is often requested, but u...

Following up

With the prospect of Fall approaching, my last post on "getting cozy" seemed like a good metaphor for the process of learning our customer needs through conversations and observations. I've been extre...

Arrant Arrays...

Our young developer has just discovered that her boss has been keeping secrets from her. All this time in her (extensive) JavaScript programming experience, she's believed that arrays were places wher...

Frustration Obviation...

There are times when installing a MID server can be very frustrating. Most of the time, you edit the config.xml file, start it up, and off it goes. Sometimes, though, the danged thing isn't so coopera...

Tip: Find your recent work faster

Have you ever found yourself working on a script, business rule, or other record over and over again from a list of dozens or hundreds of entries? If so, then you know how annoying it is to scroll dow...

Modifying the Label of Form Fields With Client Scripts

This post comes in response to a question on the ServiceNow forums asking if it is possible to change the label of a field dynamically based on some record criteria (such as record type). I've just wr...

WIKI Employee Self-Service Portal page now ready for the masses.

Following up with my last entry, http://community.service-now.com/blog/markodonnell/road-full-fledged-cms-course, I just updated the existing doc that explained the Employee Self-service Portal (ESS P...

How I Manage My ServiceNow Tasks From Eclipse

So I finally started a community blog for those rare instances when I actually have a focused thought that breaches 140 characters.Now what was I doing.... Oh yeah, here's something that's been queued...

Fun with datetime default values

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to set smart date time default values that go beyond setting your start and end date by default to the date the record was created on?Well, you can do this by combining ...

Steve Jobs, RIP...

One of my heroes is gone. He's left an astonishing legacy for all of us to use and enjoy, and admire... Posted from my Mac PowerBook, while listening to an iPod, and with my iPhone next to me...

Inspecting a record before it's been saved

I've done some work on some concept code this week, and have learned some interesting things about Glideform and ConditionsThe code I'm prototyping would be used during the creation of a record, as th...

Sample PHP Script for ServiceNow's JSON Web Service

Did you know that ServiceNow provides a JSON Web Service Plugin that allows you to do a number of operations on records within ServiceNow? I created an article that discusses how to take advantage of ...

It's the Little Things that Count...

Not long ago, I helped one of our customer's developers with some JavaScript issues that were making her want to scream. Actually, she did scream — right in my ear as she was describing her frustratio...

The Road to a full fledged CMS Course.

When we first announced the Content Management System we had no idea how popular it would become. Many have successfully built and deployed within the CMS that have gone live to production in a relati...

Added some insights on getting a mobile site working within the Content Management Sytem

Having launched a mobile friendly version of our www.service-now.com site, I wanted to make sure that the community had the tools they needed to successfully translate their sites into the mobile aren...

Labels Have Uses...

Yesterday, Snorklebogger (our developer at right) was working a tough problem: his code had a pair of nested loops, and he needed to handle a condition detected in the inner loop by skipping to the ne...

How to reuse an HTTP Session with outbound SOAP

You won't come across this often, but occasionally you will find a web service that requires that you authenticate in one call, and then use the Session ID of that initial call to act as the authoriza...

Functional Replacements...

The young lady at right is quite pleased with herself. Why, you ask? It's because she just discovered that JavaScript (by far her favorite programming language) lets you replace matches of a regular e...

New Activities - Install and Uninstall Windows Apps

Starting with the October 2011 Release Candidate, two new activities for installing and uninstalling Windows applications will be available in the Runbook - Powershell category of the workflow activit...