ServiceNow adds a ton of great functionality to each new product release. Often times, the most helpful and useful features (at least to a long-time user of the system) are enhancements to simplify or improve on existing functionality. Unfortunately, these are often some of the most under-appreciated and end up getting lost in the marketing hype [...]
Record producers are a great piece of ServiceNow functionality that allows for the creation of records in any table via the standard Service Catalog interface. This capability has been around for quite a while and odds are that you’re already using it in your system to allow end-users to create new incidents…among other things. Over the [...]
A co-worker asked me for some help yesterday fulfilling an interesting requirement. He needed to set up a configuration item reference field or catalog variable that would display a calendar macro that, when clicked, would open a popup window containing a change calendar report for that configuration item. I figured this idea might be of use [...]
Update: ServiceNow has introduced new ACL functionality that allows you to do basically the same thing as described in this article. They’re also taking a drastically new direction with reporting starting with the Fuji release, but being introduced in the back-end code in the Eureka release. As such, the solution described here is obsolete and no [...]
I just figured out a cool little reporting feature today that might end up helping somebody. On the reports homepage (‘report_home.do’) in Service-now.com, users have the ability to type filter text to restrict the types of reports that they see. So, if I wanted to see just those reports on the ‘Change request’ table, I could [...]
