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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

Using additional comments and work notes

The central purpose of a Task record in ServiceNow is to record and communicate. There are two main ways to enter information in the Task table: Additional comments and Work notes. They provide a space to enter free-text information that will be presented in the activity formatter or in a Journal Output field, as an ongoing commentary on how the task is progressing.

In UI16, the two fields are typically combined into one to save space. There is a check-box to toggle between the two. A button lets you control this behavior.

You may wonder why there are two:

Additional comments is provided for communication with the requester. Often, they are progress updates, giving the requester insight into how the work is going. They are made available to everyone.
Work notes is targeted at notes for fulfillers. These are likely to be technical or sensitive in nature and should not be shared with the requester.

Work notes are highlighted with yellow, as per the screenshot...