Field Watcher and its Window

venkatesh s · ‎06-07-2022

hai all, help me to learn where the field watcher in snow and how to see the field watcher actions in San Diego

Afrith Shariff · ‎06-08-2022

The field watcher tool tracks and displays all actions that the system performs on a selected form field.

Administrators can use the field watcher to figure out what happens to the field and how the value of the field changes when an event such as the firing of a business rule or enforcement of a data policy, takes place. Administrators can also impersonate non-admin users to debug what happens when those users make changes on an instance. Only one field can be watched at a time. Non-admin users with the impersonator role have access to the field watcher feature.

The Field Watcher tool logs activity when any of the following events occur on a field:

The default value is set on the field.
User access rights for the field change due to an ACL or dictionary setting.
A data policy prevents the value from being set.
A reference qualifier query of the field value executes.
A UI policy changes a field to or from read-only, visible, mandatory, or editable.
A dependent value in another field restricts field choices.
The value of the field is set or changed based on:
- Assignment rules
- Actions from an engine, such as the workflow engine
- Business rules
- User entries
- Client scripts
- UI actions
refer this link for detailed knowledge -https://docs.servicenow.com/en-US/bundle/sandiego-application-development/page/script/debugging/concept/c_FieldWatcher.html

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Chandu Telu · ‎06-07-2022

Hi,

Looks like this known issue

https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=352d0f3adb0b81d05205e6be13961986

This is a known thing and also mentioned in the Creator Workflows & Platform Academy of April 11.

Please Mark the answer if correct/helpful , if it helps

venkatesh s · ‎06-08-2022

Do you know that or not?

Afrith Shariff · ‎06-08-2022

The field watcher tool tracks and displays all actions that the system performs on a selected form field.

Administrators can use the field watcher to figure out what happens to the field and how the value of the field changes when an event such as the firing of a business rule or enforcement of a data policy, takes place. Administrators can also impersonate non-admin users to debug what happens when those users make changes on an instance. Only one field can be watched at a time. Non-admin users with the impersonator role have access to the field watcher feature.

The Field Watcher tool logs activity when any of the following events occur on a field:

The default value is set on the field.
User access rights for the field change due to an ACL or dictionary setting.
A data policy prevents the value from being set.
A reference qualifier query of the field value executes.
A UI policy changes a field to or from read-only, visible, mandatory, or editable.
A dependent value in another field restricts field choices.
The value of the field is set or changed based on:
- Assignment rules
- Actions from an engine, such as the workflow engine
- Business rules
- User entries
- Client scripts
- UI actions
refer this link for detailed knowledge -https://docs.servicenow.com/en-US/bundle/sandiego-application-development/page/script/debugging/concept/c_FieldWatcher.html

Henrik Jutterst · ‎11-23-2023

Seems to be missing in Next Experience. Found an Idea about this. Please upvote:

Idea: Watch Field in Next Experience