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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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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

The script debugger

The script debugger allows developers to debug server-side script to discover errors or issues with their code. We had a brief look at the script debugger in Chapter 5, Introduction to Server-Side Scripting.

To recap, we can set breakpoints in the server-side script we have written to debug the script when it is run by using the script debugger. This is the only way we can use breakpoints in ServiceNow to step through and into our script.

To use the script debugger, we first need to set a breakpoint in one of our server-side scripts. This can be any script you want to step through, either a system script or one you have built yourself. A good example is the incident_events business rule, as we can also see how different events are triggered from the incident form, too.

To start, we add a breakpoint in the incident_events business rule, as seen in Figure...

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