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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

You're reading from   ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows Automating IT Service Management

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Product type Course
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788628730
Length 1330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tim Woodruff Tim Woodruff
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Martin Wood Martin Wood
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Ashish Rudra Srivastava Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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Table of Contents (39) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
Preface
1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER 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 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 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

Building hierarchical tables


Chapter 1ServiceNow Foundations,  introduced the foundations of ServiceNow. One of the most fundamental parts of an application is how it stores its data, and we saw how virtually everything you see and do in the platform is stored in the database.

Specifically, ServiceNow is built on a relational database. Instances hosted by ServiceNow use MySQL, a popular open source database that is robust, well featured, and scalable. These kinds of relational databases are relatively simple to understand, which is one of the reasons they are most commonly used: data is held in tables and columns, and relationships may exist between rows.

Note

The ServiceNow platform can run on almost any relational database, such as Oracle or SQL Server. But supporting different architectures is difficult, so it is not a standard offering.

Benefiting from an object-oriented design

The simplicity of a relational database means that, on its own, it does not easily represent the data structures...

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