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How To Construct links to forms with fields pre-populated

I feel as though I have read an article before about how to do this. What I want to do is construct links to various forms on service now with data fields prepopulated. For example, caller_id on incident I want to default to some person, or assignmen...

sherman_1206 by Tera Contributor
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OIDs and MIBs

I am finding that although Discovery finds lots of things, it doesn't always put the info it found where I think it should.Case in point: printers.We have a wide variety of HP, Xerox, Lexmark, Zebra, etc. printers. Sometimes the Model and Serial numb...

robin850 by Giga Contributor
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Which Task Types do you use

Out of the box, It seems like there are a few different Task types in Service-now.com: Catalogue, Incident, Problem, and Project. However, there doesn't seem to be a Task type for general requests, such as assigning minor enhancements to a developmen...

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Discovery and cluster VIP

How should Discovery handle the virtual name of a cluster? It appears that Discovery will occasionally add the cluster VIP as a Windows server CI in the cmdb_ci_winserver table. The behavior is inconsistent, so I'm not sure exactly how it is supposed...

Rick Mann by Tera Expert
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Reference Icon - Remove or Prevent Clicking

We have noticed that by clicking on several reference icons our users can get to parts of the system we don't want them to see.To address this issue we'd like ideally to restrict the reference icon to be a pop up only and not clickable. If this is no...

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Metric Duration Reporting

Does anyone know why there are two duration fields calculated when the metrics definition is setup on a certain table? For example, we are collecting metrics on our problem table and we have two duration fields, mi_duration and prb_calendar_duration....

Rick Mann by Tera Expert
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UI Actions - isAdvancedUI

So in many UI Actions theres a condition: isAdvancedUI()I've done some research and it seams that this is intended to qualify your browser to a boolean based on the following: advancedUI = (isIE() && "5.5".compareTo(getIEVersion()) <= 0) //$NON-NLS-1...

gaidem by ServiceNow Employee
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Audit trail for attachments?

Attachments are stored in a table separate from incidents, requests, changes, etc. When attachments are added / deleted from incidents, requests, and changes, there's no record of that having happened in the activity log or audit trail for the task. ...

sbailey1 by Tera Contributor
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Number Maintenance - digit overflow

In the number maintenance you can create your own number ranges and create new numbers with getNextObjNumberPadded(). That's ok so far. What would happen, if the number range runs into an overflow. You've got for example INC9999999 and then calls get...

Roger19 by Tera Contributor
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Discovery Regular Expressions

I was helping a customer with a process classifier this past week. They discovered that their Windows processes were sometimes upper case, sometimes lower case, and possibly mixed case too.The original process classifier has a classification criteria...

glide.authentication.external.disable_local_login Not working

Our 'glide.authentication.external.disable_local_login' redirection property is not working. It is set to true and the 'glide.authenticate.failed_requirement_redirect' property is also set but when I go to the http://.service-now.com it is not redire...

dressman by Kilo Expert
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View All Project Tasks of a Project

When on the main page of a project, it is only possible to see the high level tasks. Is there any way to explode the view to include all child tasks of each parent tasK? Along the same line, when exporting the project to a PDF file, the only tasks th...

dbutcher by Kilo Explorer
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Set selected users "Password needs reset" to True

HI,I would like to find out the simplest way of reseting the flag "Password needs reset" in the user record to true. Ideally, i would like to do this to a selected group, with the relevant members associated to that group, or all users with the ITIL ...

soelofsen by Kilo Explorer
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