How to determine Notification SOURCE?

GeoffreyOptumOp
Tera Expert

Cool people of the ServiceNow World...

I have a Notification which, on the face of it, should ONLY be sent when an event is generated.  It looks like this:

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But if I scroll down in the Notification form, and I look at the "Email Logs" related list, I see that the notification is fired all the time WITHOUT an event:

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How can I locate what is triggering these Notifications?

(I tried doing a global search on the Notification Name and the Notification sys_id and the Event Name, and none of that got me anywhere.  I also used "studio" to do a Code Search across all objects and still didn't find anything.)

What am I missing?  Thanks!!

 

 

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Kilo Patron
Kilo Patron

Probably those were triggered by that same event only the event record has already been cleared. You can verify this by opening one of those most likely orphaned records and verifying that field Event still has a reference icon even if empty:

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or by opening up the XML source of the record and checking field event:

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Kilo Patron
Kilo Patron

Probably those were triggered by that same event only the event record has already been cleared. You can verify this by opening one of those most likely orphaned records and verifying that field Event still has a reference icon even if empty:

find_real_file.png

or by opening up the XML source of the record and checking field event:

find_real_file.png

Wow @János That is very interesting.

So the events happened, and the event sys_ids may still be found, but the events have been cleared out of the event log, and when that happens their Display Values go away.

I see information about that here:
https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0721331

Wouldn't it be better to display the sys_id rather than (empty)???  Empty makes it sound like nothing is there at all.  I really don't like that!

So if an event is showing "(empty)" does that mean that it has been cleared out of the Main table in the "Rotation", or that it has been cleared out of All the tables in the rotation?

Without opening a ticket with ServiceNow, Is there a way that I can query "Back Farther" to see this data still?  Or once it vanishes like that, it's totally gone?

Thanks!!

Wow I did not know that.  This helps also:

https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0721331

Those "(empty)" values are really misleading.  I wish that it showed the sys_id instead!