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How to trace customizations in ServiceNow?

Anish Reghu
Kilo Sage

Dear platform experts,

 

We all know customizations are an unavoidable feature of ServiceNow, when it comes to real-time customer instances.

If we have a use case wherein there is a task to capture the customizations on a given instance, can someone elaborate on all the possible ways of tracing it?

 

Some of the known ones are:

  • Visit the list of tables (sys_db_object) and check for custom tables (starts with u_)
  • Visit the attribute or column list of base tables (cmdb_ci, task and extended tables) or base process tables (incident, etc.) and check for custom attributes in it (starts with u_)
  • Check for custom applications (sys_app.LIST)

Where else can I trace customizations? Along with your suggestions kindly suggest the shortcuts or navigations on the instance where to find them.

 

I hope this post does help many other looking for this info.

 

Regards,

Anish

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Mark Roethof
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Hi there,

 

With Washington DC "sys_metadata_customization" was added, which gives a nice overview. I also like having a look at "sys_update_xml".

 

There's absolutely NO need to go into separate things like Business Rules, Client Script, Workflows, etc.. The above I mentioned will provide you almost everything. What not? When its not captured as Customer update / not captured in an Update Set / when its treated as data. 

 

Kind regards,

 

Mark Roethof

Independent ServiceNow Consultant

10x ServiceNow MVP

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Mark Roethof
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And when performing Instance Scan checks, I use this piece of scripting to identify if something is custom:

 

SncAppFiles.hasCustomerUpdate(current)

 

Kind regards,

 

Mark Roethof

Independent ServiceNow Consultant

10x ServiceNow MVP

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