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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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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

UI pages

UI pages are pages of script and XML that exist all across the ServiceNow platform. There are many UI pages that you will see as you navigate through ServiceNow, including the home pages for the service catalog and knowledge. UI pages are also a way to make custom pages where you can define everything that appears on the page.

Let's look at creating a new UI page. We start by giving our UI page a name; make sure you make a note of the name, as it will be needed to reference the page later on. The category field is mainly for reference and does not provide any additional functionality. It can be helpful for grouping your UI pages.

There are three fields that can contain code in a UI page; they are:

  • HTML
  • Client script
  • Processing script

The HTML field is where the Jelly script is held, and ServiceNow provides the tags for you to start your Jelly coding:

<?xml version...
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