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ServiceNow Application Development

You're reading from   ServiceNow Application Development Transform the way you build apps for enterprises

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128712
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Gupta Sagar Gupta
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Preface 1. Introduction to ServiceNow FREE CHAPTER 2. User Administration 3. Data Management 4. Application Scopes 5. Modules, Forms, and Views 6. Introduction to ServiceNow Scripting 7. Client-Side Scripting 8. Server-Side Scripting 9. Jelly Scripting 10. Events and Notifications 11. Workflow Development 12. Debugging in ServiceNow 13. Advanced Database Features 14. Job Scheduling and Data Export-Import

Scheduled script execution

Using the scheduled script execution feature, we can execute a server-side code on a recurring schedule. This is useful for many scenarios, such as updating multiple records, purging old records based on criteria, or parsing or validating large datasets.

As a part of our Travel Booking Application, we will create a scheduled script to automatically close booking requests, where the state is pending (-5) and the travel start date is past the current date. In essence, we will mark the state field as Closed Incomplete, which corresponds to the value of 4.

You can view, add, or remove choices for any drop-down field using Dictionary entry, Form Designer, or Update Choice List.

To define a new script that executes on a recurring schedule, use the following steps:

  1. Open Studio, select Server Development | Scheduled Script Execution as shown in the following...
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