Trigger a Data Import

[Grant Culp]

Hey I am still pretty new to Service Now. We currently have Scheduled Data Imports that run a Data Source which is a script that pulls the data from a source. 

Is it possible to trigger that Data Import job versus just having it on a schedule? I am thinking of a POST API call that would trigger the job.

Thanks!

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

Hi Grant,

Something like what's written in the following article?

https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_article&sys_id=08bce625dbd0dbc01dcaf3231f961...

[Grant Culp]

Not quite we have the script setup to pull in the data and use transform maps. But we just want instead of scheduling the job (see photo) we want to have the ability to programmatically trigger the job.

[Hitoshi Ozawa · Accepted solution]

If there's already a script, it can be called using Scripted REST API.

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/paris-application-development/page/integrate/custom-web-services/...