Copy text to clipboard Recently, I had to create a Context Menu to copy some elements from a list to the clipboard. Servicenow does that OOTB in a few places, so no need to reinvent the wheel! Let’s have a look at the UI Action “Copy sys_id”: runContextAction(); function runContextAction() { copyToClipboard(g_sysId); } …
Quality of Life Items available on ServiceNow Share I’m still trying to catch up with the content from Servicenow Knowledge ’20. A lot of interesting stuff still to be watched. Kudos to Earl Duque for his “Quality of Life items available on ServiceNow Share” talk. I was already familiar with half of the items (can anybody complete …
Sometimes you need to share values between variables in the main form and a Multi Row Variable Set. Each Multi Row Variable Set has its own instance of g_form that cannot access the data in the main form. This restriction can be solved by making the main g_form instance available to the MRVS. The code …
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Do you often find yourself looking for a piece of code in a Servicenow instance? A couple of options were discussed in the post Code Search using Studio IDE without Applications. On this occasion, I’m going to share an even better approach based on this wonderful tutorial by SN Pro Tips. Find your code faster with …
Now that we know about the existence of some Hidden Field Types in Servicenow, it is time to inspect some of them. In this post, we will see how to create a new Days of Week field, how it looks in a form and some of its properties. Creating a Days of Week field The quickest way …
Now that we know about the existence of some Hidden Field Types in Servicenow, it is time to inspect some of them. In this post, we will see how to create a new Day of Week field, how it looks in a form and some of its properties. Creating a Day of Week field The quickest way …
Note: When you create a custom field, use one of these supported field types. Other field types, such as User Input, are for internal use only and are not supported for custom fields. Where can we find these other hidden field types? And how can they be used (yes… we know that we shouldn’t… )? …
Once upon a time, I wanted to set up an integration between Servicenow and Google using OAuth 2.0. I went straight ahead to the Servicenow documentation. Everything was there, so I started following the steps provided. It worked! I could test the connection and get some data from one of the services provided by Google. …
Servicenow Geneva provided us with a great tool for developers: Studio IDE. It includes some nice features, such as the ability to search the instance and find some code. However, Studio IDE is not very friendly when you don’t want to work with applications. Opening Studio IDE A modal panel forces you to create or …
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Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system. Andrew Hunt and David Thomas The Pragmatic Programmer One of the first questions I asked when I started working with the Service Catalog in Servicenow was how to share some common functionality among Catalog Client Scripts in order to …
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