How would I go about adding two separate activity history form objects to a form?

Andrew Dzierla
Kilo Contributor

To avoid information overload and get the primary relevant information to our support techs, I'm wanting to create two different activity views on the Incident[Incident] form view. I'm trying to get work note and comment history on one section and the rest of the activity history on another section tab (see below).

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The problem I'm running into is the ability to actually post those comments/notes is lost if I try utilizing the "Comments and Work Notes" object instead of the "Activities (filtered)", as apparently the "post" button doesn't show up without the "Activities (filtered)" object below them. You can see what I mean below:
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So I've tried using the "Activities (filtered)" object on the two different sections I want information to show up, with the plan to setup default filters for each, but when adding the second of those two nothing shows up in the other section.

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What other options do I have to display the ticket history separated out in two different sections?

I've attached below where I'm adding and removing the objects from the form so you understand where I'm making changes and getting these object names from. 

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Tony Chatfield1
Kilo Patron

Hi, if I recall correctly this is not possible OOB and while I do recall hearing of an implementation I cannot find and clear details/step by step instructions.

This thread may help

Is it possible to create a second Activities formatter? - Developer Community - Question - ServiceNo...

Also covered here but the linked\reference data is not accessible.

Adding an Activity Formatter Section to any Table - ServiceNow Guru

 

I'd found the first link you'd added last week when I was researching this and can't seem to replicate what they'd been talking about about doing.

 

Since it looks like trying to get both to display on the same form isn't going to be feasible, any idea if there is a way to display the activity history for an incident on it's own page? I'm thinking of potentially just having a UI Action that would redirect to that page to display all of the activity history. That would basically give the same functionality I'm looking for as my primary goal is to only display work notes and user comments inside the ticket at a glance, and a more detailed history could still be looked at by the redirect to a separate page that has the whole activity history displayed. 

Hi Andrew,

Were you able to implement something for such requirements? 

In current project I'm having very similar requirements and I'm struggling with finding  any solution for that...

Please let me know how's your client story ended.

Thanks in advance