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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

General debugging

In addition to what we've discussed in the preceding sections, some general debugging tips and principals should be applied in order to preserve the performance of your instance, and to make your debugging as efficient as possible.

One important principal of debugging, is of course to check whether your script even ran. If you have access to the script debugger, this is a simple matter of adding a breakpoint to the script and seeing if execution halts before or after the line with the breakpoint, then stepping through each line until you find the issue. If not, however, you may need to add an infoMessage or log statement to the script or code block which you want to know about. There is, however, another way, if you're checking the execution of a business rule. The System Diagnostics | Session Debug | Debug Business Rule module can be used. This will tell you when a given business rule loads, by preceding it with an arrow ==>, and when it completes execution...

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