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Mastering ServiceNow Scripting

You're reading from   Mastering ServiceNow Scripting Leverage JavaScript APIs to perform client-side and server-side scripting on ServiceNow instances

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627092
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Kindred Andrew Kindred
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring the ServiceNow Glide Class 3. Introduction to Client-Side Scripting 4. Advanced Client-Side Scripting 5. Introduction to Server-Side Scripting 6. Advanced Server-Side Scripting 7. Introduction to Custom Pages 8. Scripting with Jelly 9. Debugging the Script 10. Best Practices 11. Deployments with the Update Sets 12. Building a Custom Application Using ServiceNow Scripting 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Debugging applications


When debugging applications, we are often interested in the scope at given times while our code is running. Some of the tools given to debug applications are actually session debugging modules. We saw the modules, ServiceNow classes as application debugging, along with others, in the session debugging section. These are:

  • Debug business rules
  • Debug business rules (details)
  • Debug security
  • Debug scopes

Business rules and security can be useful whether we are in an application or not, but the scope is very important for application coding. To show how debugging the scope works, we can create a test application, and a business rule for that application, in the application scope.

Once the application and the business rule have been created, we need to click the debug scopes and debug business rules modules in the session debugging. As an example, we can see this when updating an incident in the session debug logging.

We can see this in Figure 9.11:

Figure 9.11: Session debugging...

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