Hidden Field Types: Month of Year

Now that we know about the existence of Hidden Field Types in Servicenow, it is time to inspect one of them: Month of Year

In this post, we will see how to create a new Month of Year field, how it looks in a form and some of its properties.

Creating a Month of Year field

The quickest way is to use the following URL (substitute <instance_name> by the name of the instance):

https://<instance_name>.service-now.com/sys_dictionary.do?sys_id=-1&sysparm_query=internal_type=month_of_year

It will open the form to create a new field with the Type already populated. You just need to select the Table and set the Column label and Column Name.

Month of Year in a form

The new field is displayed as a select box.

Values and Validation

Month of Year extends Integer.

It stores the number of the selected month.

These are the values for each of the options:

• 1 = January
• 2 = February
• 3 = March
• 4 = April
• 5 = May
• 6 = June
• 7 = July
• 8 = August
• 9 = September
• 10 = October
• 11 = November
• 12 = December

If we manipulate the value of the field, it will ignore all characters except for the digits between 1 and 12

Internationalisation

Month of Year field includes out of the box translations.

This is how it looks in Spanish:

Service Portal

Unfortunately, the field type Month of Year is not displayed properly in Service Portal.