Create New User through REST API Explorer

[jamespfencil]

Trying to create a new user through the REST API Explorer and not having much luck. What are the requirements for creating a new user?

I created a new field called username, location, profile photo, etc can those be the only requirements?

[Mark Stanger · Accepted solution]

I'm testing this in my instance and the only thing that is required is a unique 'user_name' attribute and running the create as a user who has permissions to write to the 'sys_user' table (I'm using an admin account).  Also note that you need to supply a sys_id for the location record unless you've set the property for display values to be allowed for reference fields (although this shouldn't prevent the insertion of the user record.

[jamespfencil]

Thank you very much for your help!!! Is it possible to upload a photo to a custom table that contains a photo type field? 

[Mark Stanger]

Should be able to do this with the attachment API but I haven't tried it.

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/geneva-servicenow-platform/page/integrate/inbound_rest/concept/c_...

Image fields are just an attachment that has pointer to a specific table, record, and field like this...

[jamespfencil]

After uploading an image to an image field, I see the following symbol: 

Not all images look like this, as most show the actual image uploaded. Do you know what that symbol means?