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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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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

GlideRecord


The GlideRecord class is one of the most ubiquitous and useful classes in ServiceNow. Its primary function is to query a database table, and present values corresponding to each record in that table, that matches a given query. It can also be used to add, modify, or delete records. A GlideRecord object consists of properties with names corresponding to each field in the table. In the client-side Glide API, these properties usually contain strings, whereas on the server-side API, these properties contain GlideElement JavaScript Objects with their own methods and properties.

Initialize

A GlideRecord object must first be initialized by using the new keyword (which calls the initialize() constructor method) and passing in a table name as a string. This tells the new GlideRecord object what table any subsequent queries or new records are created on.

Example usage

Initialize a new GlideRecord object on the Incident table, and store it in the gr variable:

var grIncident = new GlideRecord...
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