One problem I’ve seen a few times is the need to create a new record on the fly in order to populate it into a reference field. This problem recently came up for me with a client I’m working with so I decided to come up with a good solution. An example scenario would be a [...]
While this customization may still be necessary in certain situations, ServiceNow handles this issue in Aspen builds or later without any customization. I’ve written before on SNCGuru about how ‘before query’ business rules can (and should) be used to secure row-level read access to records in Service-now. While this usually works perfectly, there is one issue [...]
A while ago I wrote about some of the different ways to customize the autocomplete search behavior for a reference field. I saw a forum post the other day where the poster asked if it was possible to create aliases for records so that they could be searched on. For example, what if you had a [...]
When working with reference fields, it is really important to understand how the display value for the reference field works. The display value for a reference field is what the end user actually sees when they search in a reference field to produce an autocomplete drop down and what they can see when a reference field [...]
