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ServiceNow Cookbook

You're reading from   ServiceNow Cookbook Acquire key capabilities for the ServiceNow platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880520
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
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Dustin Turner Dustin Turner
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Ashish Rudra Srivastava Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Service-Now FREE CHAPTER 2. Performing Core Configuration and Management Tasks 3. Building Data-Driven Application 4. Configuring Alerts and Notifications 5. Building and Configuring Reports 6. Creating and Configuring Workflow Activities 7. Auditing and Diagnosing Service-Now

Viewing and running reports


Service-Now can provide reports in Excel, PDF, and image formats, but regarding business reporting, where business heads, managers, or executives ask for reports, Service-Now reporting seems to be weak. It is worth including a few scenarios here: Every company has their own format or reporting template, which may include a logo, styles, color combination, or reports on different report sheets in the same Excel workbook; this kind of reporting is not feasible from Service-Now. In this recipe, you will see how to view and run already existing reports in the Service-Now environment.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need an active Service-Now instance and valid credentials or a valid role. If you have a role as an admin, ITIL, report group, or group admin, then you can access Service-Now reports.

How to do it...

  1. Open the standard browser and type web address of Service-Now.

  2. Log in to service-now using your credentials.

  3. In the search box, type reports, and Service-Now...

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