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ServiceNow Application Development

You're reading from   ServiceNow Application Development Transform the way you build apps for enterprises

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128712
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Gupta Sagar Gupta
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to ServiceNow FREE CHAPTER 2. User Administration 3. Data Management 4. Application Scopes 5. Modules, Forms, and Views 6. Introduction to ServiceNow Scripting 7. Client-Side Scripting 8. Server-Side Scripting 9. Jelly Scripting 10. Events and Notifications 11. Workflow Development 12. Debugging in ServiceNow 13. Advanced Database Features 14. Job Scheduling and Data Export-Import

Impersonating a user

Users with an admin or impersonator role can impersonate as any other user in the instance. This feature is useful for testing when making changes to applications and modules and to ensure proper security access.

There are three important user accounts that come by default with every developer instance:

  • admin: The system administrator account with the admin role has access to all applications and modules
  • itil: The Service Desk user with access to ITIL applications, such as incident management, problem management, change management, configuration management, service catalog, and so on
  • employee: A normal user account with no role or group assigned and access to just the Self-service application

The user account serveradmin that we created is associated with the Server Administrators group and has a servers role granted. Let us try to impersonate as all of...

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