If you’ve worked with ServiceNow much at all, you’re probably familiar with the capability provided to search knowledge from the incident form, and then attach the knowledge article back to the originating incident. This behavior is extremely useful and can be customized if needed. One complaint I’ve heard about this behavior before is that it posts [...]
Please note that with the introduction of the Service Portal, many client-side scripting methods have been deprecated. The solution described in this article can now be accomplished using the ‘setLabel()’ method. To ensure that you are compliant with the latest functionality in ServiceNow such as the Service Portal, be sure to use the methods described in [...]
Reference qualifiers are a powerful tool that every ServiceNow administrator and consultant should have in their tool belt. They allow you to dynamically filter the available options from a reference field. The ServiceNow wiki has some good documentation on this topic so I won’t re-hash that here. What I do want to address is the topic [...]
Almost any database will have situations where a record in a table can relate back to other records in that same table. This happens in ServiceNow in several places and it’s common enough that you may find yourself building additional functionality that works this way. The classic case is the ‘Parent’ field. A good example is [...]
If you’ve taken a look at the ‘My Groups Work’ module (or maybe a particular security rule or report) you may have noticed that the condition or filter for that record makes a function call to return a list of values to compare against the value in the given field. In the case of the ‘My [...]
