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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

You're reading from   ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows Automating IT Service Management

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Product type Course
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788628730
Length 1330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tim Woodruff Tim Woodruff
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Martin Wood Martin Wood
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Ashish Rudra Srivastava Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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Table of Contents (39) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
Preface
1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Interface 3. Lists and Forms 4. UI Customization 5. Understanding Data and Relationships 6. Tasks and Workflows 7. UI and Data Policies 8. User Administration and Security 9. Introduction to Scripting 10. The Server-side Glide API 11. The Client-side Glide API 12. Server-side Scripting 13. Client-side Scripting 14. Debugging 15. Pro Tips 16. Module 2 17. Getting Started with Service-Now 18. Performing Core Configuration and Management Tasks 19. Building Data-Driven Application 20. Configuring Alerts and Notifications 21. Building and Configuring Reports 22. Creating and Configuring Workflow Activities 23. Auditing and Diagnosing Service-Now 24. Module 3 25. ServiceNow Foundations 26. Developing Custom Applications 27. Server-Side Control 28. Client-Side Interaction 29. Getting Things Done with Tasks 30. Events, Notifications, and Reporting 31. Exchanging Data – Import Sets, Web Services, and other Integrations 32. Securing Applications and Data 33. Diagnosing ServiceNow – Knowing What Is Going On 34. Packaging with Applications, Update Sets, and Upgrades 35. Making ServiceNow Beautiful with Service Portal and Custom Interfaces 36. Bibliography

Working with condition activities


Conditions are very essential part of any workflow. You may come across a situation multiple times where you need to configure the conditions in a workflow. Let’s understand this by an example for an instance if you have catalog item for business software access and based on selection of business software you want to route the task to different support group as SAP business software to SAP support group, service-now business software to service-now support group and so on.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you should have an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and an admin role.

How to do it...

  1. Open any standard web browser and type the instance address.
  2. Log in to the Service-Now instance using the credentials.
  3. On the left-hand side, type workflow and under Workflow, click on Workflow Editor.
  4. Out of the box, Service-Now provides condition activities, as shown following so let’s understand the basics first:

Workflow conditions

  • If : On many occasions...
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