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

Product type Course

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788628730

Length 1330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

ServiceNow

Concepts

IT Service Management

Authors (3):

Tim Woodruff

Martin Wood

Ashish Rudra Srivastava

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Table of Contents (39) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

Preface

1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER

Learning ServiceNow

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

ServiceNow Cookbook

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

Mastering ServiceNow

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

GlideUser

The GlideUser API class in ServiceNow provides methods that allow you to get information about the current user, their roles and permissions, and their preferences; all without needing to rely on much slower GlideRecord queries.

The GlideUser class has no constructor method, and instead it is generally declared by calling the GlideSystem method: gs.getUser(), which returns the GlideUser object.

getPreference() and savePreference()

The getPreference() method of the GlideUser class allows you to retrieve the value of one of the user's user preferences. User preferences are stored within the sys_user_preference table, and consist of things like how many records to display per page in a given list, or what update set is currently selected.

This method accepts one argument: a string containing the name of the preference to retrieve.

The getPreference() method returns a string containing the value of the preference requested, or null if no such preference is defined.

savePreference() on the...