In this episode, ben.yukich provides tips and tricks for using the
powerful Discovery tool to identify, maintain, and get control of the
configuration items in your Configuration Management Database (...
All: My latest ServiceNow scripting article was published today. This is
the continuation of my previous article: Calling a Sub-Workflow, Part I
This article is a lab guide that covers the Orchestrati...
All:My latest ServiceNow scripting article was published today. I
focused on a new format: Labs! This article covers a basic Orchestration
sub-workflow, and some best practices. The next article, due ...
Workflows tend to be long running processes. They typically "live" for
anywhere from several hours to several days. Very little of that
lifetime is spent doing actual computation. Most of a workflow's...
To facilitate troubleshooting probe-sensor version conflicts, the
ServiceNow platform provides major and minor version fields, starting
with the Fuji release. A major version change is a change in the...
Discovery probes and sensors perform data collection and processing
tasks. In collaboration with Joshua Gerbasi and Chris Nguyen the
Multimedia Team recently published this video that explains how the...
This is in regards to the legacy CI identifiers used prior to the Geneva
release and without Service Mapping. For information on how to handle
this scenario using the new CI identifiers, please refere...
The ability to describe sets of data in JSON format is a natural
extension to the JavaScript language. ServiceNow supports a web service
interface that operates on the JSON object as the data input an...
At the end of my Seeking Approval article, I promised one on handling
the rejection path of an approval. I was thinking that I would go into
detail on how to use a rollback activity and the pitfalls y...
We've updated our Discovery playlist with our most recent videos! You
can view the Discovery playlist here.This playlist now
includes:Troubleshooting a Down ServiceNow MID ServerHow to Set Up a MID
Se...
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I've used the the phrase "Approval activities" frequently in this
Seeking Approval series. If you open the Workflow Editor and load a
workflow that uses a Task table as its current record, you will se...
In Part 1 of this series, I covered the basics of how workflow approval
activities work. This time, I'm going to peel back the covers a bit
more, and look at the difference between approvals for recor...
Automating an approval process is a common use case for workflow, but
can sometimes lead people into difficulties. I thought it would useful
to explain how the different approval activities work, and ...