I was tasked today with putting a knowledge icon next to a reference
field. For most of you who know, this is impossible using the
knowledge_search=true attribute. Even though the page says "any field...
Today we're going to take the things you've already learned, and apply
them to something a bit more like the real world. Let's say we've
imported that old standby, a .csv file (comma-separated values,...
Hey,There's a video podcast going on, called snappcast - shows some cool
stuffs. Check it out:http://community.service-now.com/blog/snappcastFull
disclosure: I'm one of the hosts.Post feedback to me d...
I just discovered a cool series of ongoing screencasts about ServiceNow
coordinated by RonFreeman and available on ScoopIT:
http://www.scoop.it/t/servicenow
Here's our exercise for today: write a regex and accompanying script
that will allow us to extract the parenthetical text from this
sample:Once upon a time (a long time ago), there was a purple frog
l...
I was recently asked to help a colleague figure out some date
calculations based on a schedule. The requirement was to calculate a
future date based on the existing value of a date/time field. I decid...
Yesterday I showed you how this regular expression (regex) worked to
find SSNs in
text:/(^|[^0-9])([0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{4})($|[^0-9])/mHopefully you
didn't suffer too much brain damage in the proce...
Yesterday I showed you a regular expression (regex) that would find an
SSN in text:/(^|[^0-9])([0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{4})($|[^0-9])/mI didn't
tell you anything at all about how it worked, though. Let...
Some people think of regular expressions almost as a religion (The One
Way), but more people think of them as something to be avoided if
possible. Some people find them elegant and intuitive, but more...
There may be times where you want to grab a CSV, Excel, or XML file from
a place on the Internet to perform your imports. Maybe your third party
integration system publishes XML documents that are acc...
Snappcast is an ongoing series of screencasts created and produced by
ServiceNow customers and partners. These will showcase the power and
flexibility of the ServiceNow Platform. This is the first epi...
A large percentage of ServiceNow customers will import users from an
LDAP source. Typically these sources are Active Directory based, but
often times we run into customers using Novell eDirectory. For...
I'm pretty lazy. So I don't like writing more lines of script that are
essential. Case in point, my very first business rule, written maybe
five-and-a-half years ago, did about 4 different things but ...
I'm told that just a few weeks ago, our correspondent at right looked
like the young man he actually is. Then he tried to write what he
thought was a simple little script on his company's ServiceNow i...
Continuing our series of puzzled zerogenarian administrators, today
we've got Sally. She's wondering about a facet of scripting on the
ServiceNow instance that's had her confused for a while. There ar...
I've seen a couple of requests recently for a capability to record
actual, hand-drawn user signatures. There are probably several uses for
this type of thing, but usually the requirement has something...
We had a requirement from a client asking us to populate all the options
on the Service Request Form dynamically from a table.So we wrote our own
UI page which will get all the options from a table.On...
Recently Elaine, a system administrator at a company that uses our
Discovery product, got to wondering about SSH connections. She noticed
that while Discovery sends quite a few probes to her UNIX and ...
When creating slides in PowerPoint, try to utilize the appropriate
"layout". This ensures consistency across slides. It also makes it
easier to convert slides to other "templates", say, when you want ...