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ServiceNow Application Development

You're reading from   ServiceNow Application Development Transform the way you build apps for enterprises

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128712
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Gupta Sagar Gupta
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to ServiceNow FREE CHAPTER 2. User Administration 3. Data Management 4. Application Scopes 5. Modules, Forms, and Views 6. Introduction to ServiceNow Scripting 7. Client-Side Scripting 8. Server-Side Scripting 9. Jelly Scripting 10. Events and Notifications 11. Workflow Development 12. Debugging in ServiceNow 13. Advanced Database Features 14. Job Scheduling and Data Export-Import

Field Watcher

The Field Watcher window, which is available as a tab in the JavaScript Log and Field Watcher window, is useful to monitor changes to values of a particular field when server-side or client-side scripts perform any action. To watch a field, as shown in the following screenshot, we can right-click on the field label in the form and select Watch Field:

The Field Watcher window will automatically show up, if it is not already active, when we watch a field:

The Field Watcher window can help monitor changes to the field from the following artifacts:

  • ACL
  • Business rule
  • Client script
  • Data lookup
  • Data policy
  • UI action
  • UI policy
  • Workflow activity
  • Reference qualifier

When we submit the form, if an ACL or business rule will act on the field or modify its value, we can see those details in the Field Watcher window as shown in the following screenshot:

In the preceding screenshot...

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