Is it possible to display data from a third-party REST API on a dashboard

[soufianesalama]

Hi,

I'm an intern for an IT company and they have giving me the task to investigate the possibility to display data from a REST API (JSON) on a dashboard.

Has anyone tried to do this?

I tried getting data from a REST API(Outbound Rest Message) and making a dashboard, only problem is connect these 2.

Thanks

Soufiane

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi Soufiane,

Your best approach to this would be to create a table and   save the information retrieved from REST there. That makes it very easy to display the information on your dashboard. You can then refresh the information via your REST call any time you like via   scheduled job or on demand.

http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Creating_a_Custom_Table

[Chuck Tomasi]

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Thank you

[soufianesalama]

Hi Chuck

Thanks for the fast response.

I will try.

[Ashby]

Soufiane,

Another option for you to demonstrate connecting to a 3rd party REST API and displaying data on a dashboard would be to connect to either a Twitter and/or LinkedIn account.     Instructions on how accomplish this are below:

Add Twitter data to a Performance Analytics dashboard

Configure LinkedIn integration

Regards

Ashby