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Learning ServiceNow

You're reading from   Learning ServiceNow Administration and development on the Now platform, for powerful IT automation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788837040
Length 388 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tim Woodruff Tim Woodruff
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Lists and Forms 3. UI Customization 4. Understanding Data and Relationships 5. Tasks and Workflows 6. UI and Data Policies 7. User Administration and Security 8. Introduction to Scripting 9. The Server-Side Glide API 10. The Client-Side Glide API 11. Server-Side Scripting 12. Client-Side Scripting 13. Service Portal Scripting 14. Debugging 15. Pro Tips Index

Groups and roles


As we learned in a previous chapter, it's nearly always best practice to assign roles to groups, and then add users to those groups. It is virtually never a good idea to add roles directly to users. Following this best-practice guideline makes role management much, much simpler and more manageable later on.

Roles in ServiceNow correspond to specific sets of permissions. They grant access to modules within the platform, rights to perform certain actions, and more. Some roles, such as the admin role, grant special permissions, such as the ability to modify system records, policies, and scripts. In high security instances (instances with the High Security Settings plugin enabled), there is an even higher-permissions role, called security_admin. This role grants the ability to modify security rules (ACLs) and perform other security-related tasks.

Roles are stored in the Role [sys_user_role] table, and can be found in the application navigator, under User Administration | Roles...

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