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Mastering ServiceNow Scripting

By : Andrew Kindred
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Mastering ServiceNow Scripting

By: Andrew Kindred

Overview of this book

Industry giants like RedHat and NetApp have adopted ServiceNow for their operational needs, and it is evolving as the number one platform choice for IT Service management. ServiceNow provides their clients with an add-on when it comes to baseline instances, where scripting can be used to customize and improve the performance of instances. It also provides inbuilt JavaScript API for scripting and improving your JavaScript instance. This book will initially cover the basics of ServiceNow scripting and the appropriate time to script in a ServiceNow environment. Then, we dig deeper into client-side and server-side scripting using JavaScipt API. We will also cover advance concepts like on-demand functions, script actions, and best practices. Mastering ServiceNow Scripting acts as an end-to-end guide for writing, testing, and debugging scripts of ServiceNow. We cover update sets for moving customizations between ServiceNow instances, jelly scripts for making custom pages, and best practices for all types of script in ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience in scripting ServiceNow using inbuilt JavaScript API.

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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Contributors
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started
Getting Started
Configuration versus customization
To script or not to script?
Types of script
Script execution
Introduction to scripting
Script editor
Summary
2
Exploring the ServiceNow Glide Class
Exploring the ServiceNow Glide Class
Using ServiceNow exposed JavaScript APIs
Server-side Glide classes
Client-side Glide classes
Script examples
Summary
3
Introduction to Client-Side Scripting
Introduction to Client-Side Scripting
Client scripts
UI policies
How and when to write client-side scripts
Testing client-side scripts
Script examples
Summary
4
Advanced Client-Side Scripting
Advanced Client-Side Scripting
UI actions
AJAX calls
Script examples
Summary
5
Introduction to Server-Side Scripting
Introduction to Server-Side Scripting
Business rules
UI actions
Access controls
How and when to write server-side scripts
Testing server-side scripts
Script examples
Summary
6
Advanced Server-Side Scripting
Advanced Server-Side Scripting
Script includes
Scheduled jobs
Background scripts
Workflow scripts
Event management
Script actions
Script examples
Summary
7
Introduction to Custom Pages
Introduction to Custom Pages
Introduction to Jelly
UI pages
Script examples
Summary
8
Scripting with Jelly
Scripting with Jelly
Jelly scripting
UI macros
Script examples
Summary
9
Debugging the Script
Debugging the Script
The script debugger
The session debugger
The Field Watcher
Debugging applications
The JavaScript Log and Debug window
Debugging REST
SOAP debugging
Summary
10
Best Practices
Best Practices
Coding best practices
Business rule best practices
Client script best practices
Debugging tools best practices
Logs and queues best practices
System performance best practices
Summary
11
Deployments with the Update Sets
Deployments with the Update Sets
When to use update sets
How to use scope with update sets
Transferring update sets between instances
Update set pitfalls
Update set best practices
Summary
12
Building a Custom Application Using ServiceNow Scripting
Building a Custom Application Using ServiceNow Scripting
Creating a custom application with ServiceNow scripting
End-to-end development
Testing
Deployment
Summary
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Index
Index

Using ServiceNow exposed JavaScript APIs

ServiceNow provides developers with some exposed JavaScript APIs to aid them with the scripts they write. This saves a lot of time in accessing records and fields in scripts in ServiceNow. There are a number of different classes and objects available to developers, some of which very helpful and others rarely used.

GlideRecord

One of the most common JavaScript APIs is the GlideRecord class, which is extremely handy and will fast become a staple of most scripting. GlideRecord is a way of finding and counting records in ServiceNow based on many different queries. It is quite similar to a SQL statement if that is something you are familiar with.

Let's have a look at how to use GlideRecord.

We'll take a look at how to query all the records in a particular table. The format of the GlideRecord script for this is shown in the following, with table_name being the only parameter. This needs to be the table name rather than the table label:

new GlideRecord('&lt...
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