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Learning ServiceNow

You're reading from   Learning ServiceNow Get started with ServiceNow administration and development to manage and automate your IT Service Management processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883323
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sylvain Hauser Sylvain Hauser
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Tim Woodruff Tim Woodruff
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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. Debugging 14. Pro Tips

Many-to-many relationships in ServiceNow


Many-to-many (M2M) relationships are similar to one-to-many relationships, except that they aren't usually dependent on a foreign key column in a child table. Instead, many-to-many relationships in ServiceNow usually rely on an intermediary table called an M2M table. This table commonly has a PK (Sys ID) of its' own for each record, and otherwise primarily consists (other than the default System fields, like Updated and Created by) of two FK columns.

As it happens, we've already seen one example of a many-to-many table: the Lou's Shoes Order table we defined earlier! This table creates a many-to-many relationship between the Customer and Item tables. This structure makes sense, because any one customer might order multiple different items, and any one item might be purchased by multiple different customers.

Luckily, in ServiceNow, there is an easy and pre-defined way to create M2M tables. Follow the following the steps, to see how to define a new many...

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