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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

Where scripting is supported


Some records are defined as scripts, such that running a script is their primary function. Other records, such as business rules, will support scripting if you enable the Advanced view, but which have more basic functionality even without scripting. What might be less intuitive, is that certain fields such as the condition builder, can also support scripting if the script is invoked using the javascript: keyword.

Later, we'll go over most of the scenarios in which scripting is supported in one fashion or another, and we'll learn what these scripts do, as well as the context in which they execute (whether on the client, or the server).

Access controls-executes on: server

In a previous chapter, we learned about how access controls (AKA security rules/ACLs) control whether a user can access a record, or perform a certain operation upon it (read, write, delete, and so on). Access controls have a great deal of functionality without scripting, but do have the capability...

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