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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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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

Starting with Service Portal

A Service Portal page is a collection of widgets. Each widget performs a function, such as listing active Maintenance requests or details about a single task, providing a way to add or remove attachments, or even displaying your location on a map.

In many cases, there is already a widget that does what you want. There are around 100 widgets provided by the base configuration, most of which have ways to make them work for you. And the Service Portal designer provides a very easy-to-use interface to let you add, remove and configure these widgets to whatever page you choose. Of course, you can build your own, too!

Getting the assets

Creating a visually attractive portal usually means that logos and graphics will be required. We asked the design team at Gardiner Hotels for the company logo as well as some icons for the menus. They provided us with a ZIP file that contained these items and also informed us that their corporate font is Lucida Grande. Orange and blue...

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