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Mastering ServiceNow

You're reading from   Mastering ServiceNow Unleash the full potential of ServiceNow from foundations to advanced functions, with this hands-on expert guide fully revised for the Helsinki version

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465955
Length 656 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Martin Wood Martin Wood
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. ServiceNow Foundations 2. Developing Custom Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Server-Side Control 4. Client-Side Interaction 5. Getting Things Done with Tasks 6. Events, Notifications, and Reporting 7. Exchanging Data – Import Sets, Web Services, and other Integrations 8. Securing Applications and Data 9. Diagnosing ServiceNow – Knowing What Is Going On 10. Packaging with Applications, Update Sets, and Upgrades 11. Making ServiceNow Beautiful with Service Portal and Custom Interfaces

Business rules


The home of server-side scripting in ServiceNow is business rules. They are so called because they allow you to apply business or process logic to applications hosted on ServiceNow. Do you want to update a remote system through an integration? Perhaps check a date? Or populate some fields automatically? Business Rules are a great way to accomplish this.

Some like to think of business rules as database triggers since they perform a very similar function. business rules run whenever a record is inserted, updated, or deleted or when a query is run against the table. Since ServiceNow is a data-driven platform, this enables great flexibility in manipulating and working with the information in the system.

To create a Business Rule, navigate to System Definition > Business Rules, and click New.

Setting the table

One of the thoughts to have when creating a business rule is to set which table it will run on. Most of the time, it is obvious: if you want to affect the Check-in records...

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