Application Portfolio Management (APM) assessment challenges
Like children, I don't think we are supposed to pick our favorite product/application on the ServiceNow platform, so I will simply say Application Portfolio Management (APM) is one of my favorites. The reason for this praise is because APM in my opinion is one of the best products to show the power of the ServiceNow platform. Commercial break over, but [...]
Knowledge Translation using Localization Framework and Azure
When tasked with the requirement to translate knowledge articles into other languages this can be intimidating especially for those of us that are still working on mastering our first language. Thankfully there is significant help in a new offering in the Tokyo release. What I want to shine a light on is the expanded capabilities of the Localization Framework. Specifically [...]
Localization framework fulfillment (LP, LRITM, LFTASK)
Recently I dove into the Localization Framework, noticed some new tables, made some incorrect initial assumptions, and came out with an understanding of the table structure that I could not find consolidated on the documentation site. Number Prefix Label Name Extends LP Localization Project sn_lf_project Task LRITM Localization Requested Item sn_lf_requested_item LFTASK Localization Task sn_lf_task Task You might think [...]
GlideDialogWindow: Advanced Popups Using UI Pages
This article is the 3rd in a series of posts explaining the use of ‘GlideDialog’ in ServiceNow. If you want to see all of the articles I’ve written about GlideDialogWindow and popups in ServiceNow just use the tags at the bottom of this article. In this article I’ll show you how you can use GlideDialogWindow to pop open a dialog [...]
User Object Cheat Sheet
N o matter what system you’re working in, it is always critical to be able to identify information about the user who is accessing that system. Being able to identify who the user is, what their groups and/or roles are, and what other attributes their user record has are all important pieces of information that allow you to provide that [...]
GlideRecord Query Cheat Sheet
Idoubt if there’s a single concept in Service-now that is more valuable to understand than how to use GlideRecord methods to query, insert, update, and delete records in your system. These methods have a wide variety of uses and are found at the heart of many of the business rules, UI actions, and scheduled job scripts that are essential to [...]