Rather that forgoing the pains of brain surgery so that my thoughts on
Content Management System (CMS) can be seen by the ServiceNow community,
I took some time this past week to add to the CMS Wiki. ...
Basic Authentication is the standard, out of the box authentication
mechanism for SOAP Requests into ServiceNow. A few months ago I ran into
a scenario where a customer wanted to maintain a "Restricte...
Today I've been testing our Change Management conflict detection
functionality.This feature allows Change Managers, and Change Advisory
Boards to spot potential issues, and be more aware of the risks ...
As we revisit our core ITSM applications I've been diving back into the
ITIL books, both version 3 and 2011.We are all familiar with the ITIL
"magic roundabout" - a visualisation that demonstrates how...
The credit for this post is given to Hima Chalimadugu. Thanks to her, I
am just spreading the knowledge ļ3.1Layered Approach The approach
designed to handle dynamic approvals is layered into 3 concent...
Hello there,My name is Simon Morris, the newest member of the
Application Development team at ServiceNow in London.Previously I was a
ServiceNow customer (read on below...) and a certified Community l...
I learn a lot from my co-workers, and I learn a lot from our customers
too. About a year ago I was on a conference call with a customer working
on an import set and transform map when she showed me a ...
About a year (and half?) ago, I made the effort to consolidate the Help
the Help Desk script (the one where a user clicks on the "Help the Help
Desk" module under the "Self-Service" application) and t...
The Automation team has started to build out a set of user management
activities. Our end goal is to enable customers to automate their
on-boarding/off-boarding processes with auditable, self-document...
The developers put so much cool stuff in ServiceNow software that
sometimes things escape my notice. When I find them, I'm truly amazed.
The filter tool option "Is One Of" falls in to that category.(g...
For a longgg time now jelly is something that has scared me. I'm just
starting to get over the fear because I have learned why it's
scary!You're a developer, and you like to learn by example. So you d...
Lately I've been doing some service catalog work for a couple of clients
and I've come across a requirement that I really haven't had to address
before. The requirement deals with order guidesā¦specifi...
Do you need to take advantage of the complete flexibility of Service-now
that extends beyond the user interface? If so then you'll need to learn
how to do some scripting. The prerequisites for this cl...
I recently came across a performance issue with the Javascript "replace"
function. When I switched to using the Java string replace function
instead my performance jumped incredibly for larger strings...
One of my favorite time saving features of ServiceNow is labels. This
handy, and often overlooked feature, can speed up the navigation to a
specific record.As I develop solutions, I find I'm constantl...
Ever wanted a simple way to add collapsible menus to your ServiceNow CMS
site? I just came up with a way to do this. Check it out at
ServiceNowGuru!http://www.servicenowguru.com/content-management/col...
While going through my most recent implementation I'm finding a lot of
points where I wish there was more content out-of-box. To be absolutely
clear; I'm not talking about demo data.One such thing is ...
First off, sorry to the community members. I've been super busy these
days and haven't been able to respond to posts as much as I would like.
Here's an example of what's been keeping me busy.Yesterday...
Occasionally you may find yourself needing to write a script that needs
to look at more than one row to get its answer. For instance, perhaps
you need a count of all the Dell servers in a particular d...
When you're working with JavaScript on the client side, it's pretty easy
to work with XML ā the DOM is built right in. But what if you want to
work with XML in a server-side JavaScript? There's no DOM...