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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

You're reading from   ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows Automating IT Service Management

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Product type Course
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788628730
Length 1330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tim Woodruff Tim Woodruff
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Martin Wood Martin Wood
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Ashish Rudra Srivastava Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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Table of Contents (39) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
Preface
1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Interface 3. Lists and Forms 4. UI Customization 5. Understanding Data and Relationships 6. Tasks and Workflows 7. UI and Data Policies 8. User Administration and Security 9. Introduction to Scripting 10. The Server-side Glide API 11. The Client-side Glide API 12. Server-side Scripting 13. Client-side Scripting 14. Debugging 15. Pro Tips 16. Module 2 17. Getting Started with Service-Now 18. Performing Core Configuration and Management Tasks 19. Building Data-Driven Application 20. Configuring Alerts and Notifications 21. Building and Configuring Reports 22. Creating and Configuring Workflow Activities 23. Auditing and Diagnosing Service-Now 24. Module 3 25. ServiceNow Foundations 26. Developing Custom Applications 27. Server-Side Control 28. Client-Side Interaction 29. Getting Things Done with Tasks 30. Events, Notifications, and Reporting 31. Exchanging Data – Import Sets, Web Services, and other Integrations 32. Securing Applications and Data 33. Diagnosing ServiceNow – Knowing What Is Going On 34. Packaging with Applications, Update Sets, and Upgrades 35. Making ServiceNow Beautiful with Service Portal and Custom Interfaces 36. Bibliography

Business rules


The home of server-side scripting in ServiceNow is business rules. They are so called because they allow you to apply business or process logic to applications hosted on ServiceNow. Do you want to update a remote system through an integration? Perhaps check a date? Or populate some fields automatically? Business Rules are a great way to accomplish this.

Some like to think of business rules as database triggers since they perform a very similar function. business rules run whenever a record is inserted, updated, or deleted or when a query is run against the table. Since ServiceNow is a data-driven platform, this enables great flexibility in manipulating and working with the information in the system.

To create a Business Rule, navigate to System Definition > Business Rules, and click New.

Setting the table

One of the thoughts to have when creating a business rule is to set which table it will run on. Most of the time, it is obvious: if you want to affect the Check-in records...

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