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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 actions

UI actions are generally considered to be a server-side script, but they can also run as client-side script, too. We will cover an introduction to UI actions and their basic usage in the server-side basics in the next chapter. Here, though, we will look at the more advanced techniques of running UI actions on the client side.

Client-side UI actions

To change a UI action to run client-side script, we first need to check the client field tick box. This brings up some additional fields, including the checkboxes to select which list versions the UI actions will be compatible with, but the main new field we are interested in is called onClick. 

The onClick field runs the client code contained inside it when the...

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