A few days ago I was talking with someone I'll call Joe about one of our Discovery scripts. Joe was trying to figure out something we were doing in the script, and I finally figured out what was givin...
Discovery has just acquired a snazzy new feature that will be available starting with the "Stable 3" build coming up in early September, and it will be in the Fall 2010 release. The screenshot at righ...
In an earlier post, I touched a bit on the arguments property that's available in any function. There I showed how you can use it to create functions that take a variable number of arguments. Today I'...
Have you ever written a handy-dandy little script function, and then wished you could have it accept different kinds of arguments? For instance, perhaps you wrote a function that took a list of people...
There are occasions when it is quite useful to have a function argument that isn't an actual value (in the usual sense of a number, string, etc.), but rather a way to get a value. There are also occas...
Hi everybody,Today's release is now officially documented! A nice end to another release cycle. If you want to find out what's coming in Spring 2010 Stable 2 and how it works, here's the release notes...
If you've done any scripting of Service-now.com, you've almost certainly run into the notion of a sys_id: the unique 32-character long identifier that is the primary key for every record in every tabl...
[asset|aid=344|format=Small|formatter=asset_lightbox|title=destructive_god.jpg|width=150|height=150|align=right]Wanton destruction is generally a bad thing (though fun to watch on a movie, if the spec...
Hi everyone,Today we've released a new topic about managing data. It involves some very intro-level documentation for administrators, as well as more detailed and better organized information about da...
[asset|aid=340|format=Small|formatter=asset_lightbox|title=nerdette.jpg|width=150|height=113|align=right]Suppose your boss wanted to automatically scan every week to look for any "dog" computers you m...
Have you ever needed to write a script that did some work on a lot of records in a table? In such situations it can be very useful to work on one "chunk" of records at a time. There are many reasons w...
Have you ever wished you could display a related list, but you couldn't figure out how to do it because the things you wanted to list were not related in the usual way (as either a related list or as ...
And now for something completely different: a contest! If you click on "Read more" below, you'll see some code that finds prime numbers using the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm. Can you find the bug ...
My post on recursion yesterday left some of you wanting a more, er, practical example. What's a real-world example of where one might choose recursion?Ask and ye shall receive:var filesystem = [{name:...
Hi everyone,We've just completed a project to rewrite the Update Sets Documentation. You can find it here:http://wiki.service-now.com/index.php?title=System_Update_Sets_(remote_update_set_support)_Plu...
What's this "recursion" I keep hearing people talk about? That's a question I got the other day. Recursion is a concept that has (unfairly, I think) gotten a reputation for being difficult to understa...
Have you found yourself writing almost the same code, over and over again? I recently spoke with someone who had very similar code in several different places, always to get a related list of a CI. Ea...
"All right," said a reader who had read my post of a few days ago on sorting. "Suppose I need to sort something like this mess, the way a human would want it sorted?"May 12, 2009March 3, 10Jan 09, 99d...
Hi everyone,Our existing Web Services documentation is now available as a single PDF, for reference:http://wiki.service-now.com/index.php?title=Book:Web_ServicesGuy YedwabService-now.com Documentation
Have you ever wished the designers of a JavaScript class had included a method property you'd really like to have? I sure have. For instance, I've often wished that String class had a "right" and "lef...
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