Mastering ServiceNow
Mastering ServiceNow

Author: Martin Wood

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 1786467429

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Unleash the full potential of ServiceNow from foundations to advanced functions, with this hands-on expert guide fully revised for the Helsinki version About This Book Give your ServiceNow Helsinki implementation a powerful kick-start by understanding the deep capabilities of the platform, Learn by doing with an extended, comprehensive example, creating a feature-rich, secure and automated application from the ground up Interact with your whole organization by integrating with REST web services and build a custom Service Portal interface Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at advanced ServiceNow System Administrators and developers who would like to gain greater control of ServiceNow and its architecture. The book expects you to be new to ServiceNow, but have a good grounding in internet and computing technologies, like HTML, JSON, REST and database systems. Readers should be especially familiar with JavaScript, and be keen to extend and alter the platform. With this book, they will be able to develop a new application for their company. What You Will Learn Build custom scoped applications that access the full ServiceNow API Build a modern, responsive self-service interface with Service Portal Design feature-rich, responsive, automated workflow systems Design powerful data-driven applications Control information flow and apply business logic with Business Rules Write efficient and effective client-side JavaScript Learn how to authenticate and secure Web Services Integrate and exchange data with people and systems Create and secure your systems with proper access control In Detail ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. The book steps through the main aspects of the ServiceNow platform, from the ground up. It starts by exploring the core architecture of ServiceNow, including building the right data structure. To add business logic and control data, and interactivity to user interaction, you will be shown how to code on both server and the client. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events and notifications. The book will then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Furthermore, you will learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. You will then be shown how to package your applications and changes, so they can be installed elsewhere and ways to maintain them easily. If you wish to create an alternative simple interface, then explore ways to make ServiceNow beautiful using Service Portal. By the end of the book, you will know the fundamentals of the ServiceNow platform, helping you be a better ServiceNow System Administrator or developer. Style and approach Explore how to implement business logic and automated workflows and write effective code by flexible choices for client-side scripting

Mastering ServiceNow Scripting
Mastering ServiceNow Scripting

Author: Andrew Kindred

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1788624203

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Understand the ServiceNow scripting and build an efficient customized ServiceNow instance Key Features Customize your ServiceNow instance according to your organization’s needs Learn to work with inbuilt JavaScript APIs in ServiceNow Take your ServiceNow experience to the next level by learning to script Book Description Industry giants like RedHat and NetApp have adopted ServiceNow for their operational needs, and it is evolving as the number one platform choice for IT Service management. ServiceNow provides their clients with an add-on when it comes to baseline instances, where scripting can be used to customize and improve the performance of instances. It also provides inbuilt JavaScript API for scripting and improving your JavaScript instance. This book will initially cover the basics of ServiceNow scripting and the appropriate time to script in a ServiceNow environment. Then, we dig deeper into client-side and server-side scripting using JavaScipt API. We will also cover advance concepts like on-demand functions, script actions, and best practices. Mastering ServiceNow Scripting acts as an end-to-end guide for writing, testing, and debugging scripts of ServiceNow. We cover update sets for moving customizations between ServiceNow instances, jelly scripts for making custom pages, and best practices for all types of script in ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience in scripting ServiceNow using inbuilt JavaScript API. What you will learn Customize your ServiceNow instance according to your organization's needs Explore the ServiceNow-exposed JavaScript APIs and libraries Discover the method for using ServiceNow scripting functions Take your ServiceNow experience to the next level by understanding advanced scripting Learn to build, test, and debug custom applications Use your customized instance efficiently with the help of best practices Who this book is for This book is targeted toward ServiceNow administrators or anyone willing to learn inbuilt JavaScript APIs used to script and customize ServiceNow instances. Prior experience with ServiceNow is required.

Learning ServiceNow
Learning ServiceNow

Author: Tim Woodruff

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-06-20

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1788837371

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IT service management automation at your fingertips Key Features Learn to leverage ServiceNow’s capabilities for improved IT automation by following step-by-step, practical instructions Build core administration, development, and maintenance skills with IT service management in ServiceNow Improve your workflow efficiency by designing and creating responsive and automated workflows, business logic, and front-end automation Book Description This book is an updated version of Learning ServiceNow, that will cover the new and updated features of the ServiceNow platform. It will show you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world, while introducing key concepts via examples of managing and automating IT services. It'll help you build a solid foundation of knowledge, and will demonstrate how to effectively implement and configure modules within ServiceNow. We'll show you how to configure and administer your instance, and then move on to building strong user interfaces and creating powerful workflows. We also cover other key elements of ServiceNow, such as notifications, security, reporting, and custom development. You will learn how to improve and automate your business' workflow and processes. By the end of this book, you will be able to successfully configure and manage ServiceNow like a pro. What you will learn Read and write clear, effective code for the ServiceNow platform Identify and avoid common pitfalls and missteps that could seriously impact future progress and upgradeability Use debugging tools to troubleshoot when things go wrong Discover tips and tricks from top ServiceNow developers, architects, and administrators. Find out what the pros wish they knew when they were starting out Who this book is for This book is for IT professionals and administrators who are planning to or are already trying to implement ServiceNow in their organization for Enterprise IT service management tasks. Some familiarity with web technologies (JavaScript) would be helpful. Prior ServiceNow experience is not necessary.

Learning ServiceNow
Learning ServiceNow

Author: Tim Woodruff

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-03-30

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 178588753X

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IT Service management at your fingertips About This Book Leverage ServiceNow's capabilities to achieve improved service management and excellent results in your IT operations by following step-by-step, practical instructions Build core administration, management, and maintenance skills with IT service management and IT operations management Improve your workflow efficiency by designing and creating responsive and automated workflows Who This Book Is For This book is for IT professionals and administrators who are planning to or are already trying to implement ServiceNow in their organization for Enterprise IT service management tasks. Some familiarity with web technologies (JavaScript) would be helpful. System administration experience is necessary. What You Will Learn Acquire and configure your own free personal developer instance of ServiceNow Read (and write!) clear, effective requirements for ServiceNow development Avoid common pitfalls and missteps that could seriously impact future progress and upgradeability Know how to troubleshoot when things go wrong using debugging tools Discover developer “tips and tricks” Pick up great tips from top ServiceNow development and administration professionals, and find out what they wish they knew when they were starting out In Detail This book shows you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world. We will introduce key concepts and examples on managing and automating IT services, and help you build a solid foundation towards this new approach. We'll demonstrate how to effectively implement various system configurations within ServiceNow. We'll show you how to configure and administer your instance, and then move on to building strong user interfaces and creating powerful workflows. We also cover other key elements of ServiceNow, such as alerts and notifications, security, reporting, and custom development. You will learn how to improve your business' workflow, processes, and operational efficiency. By the end of this book, you will be able to successfully configure and manage ServiceNow within your organization. Style and approach This book is a step-by-step practical tutorial to help you quickly deploy and configure ServiceNow in your organization.

ServiceNow IT Operations Management
ServiceNow IT Operations Management

Author: Ajaykumar Guggilla

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1785889818

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Align your business requirements with IT by implementing ServiceNow IT Operations with ease. About This Book Written to the latest specification, it will cover basic to advanced concepts and architecture. Take a service-centric approach to operations management and consolidate all your resource data into a single system IT record. Beat the key challenge of managing multiple business operations (even running globally) over a complex IT infrastructure and see immediate results. Who This Book Is For The book is aimed at System administrators, IT operations and IT managers who plan to implement ServiceNow IT Operations Management for their organization. They have no knowledge of ServiceNow ITOM. What You Will Learn Step by step guide in setting up each features with in ServiceNow ITOM Install and configure the required application or plugin Integrate with other provider services as deemed appropriate Explore Orchestration capabilities and how to analyze the data Learn about the ServiceNow graphical interface Integrate with other applications within ServiceNow Aims to cover the fundamentals concepts to advanced concepts Best practices and advanced features In Detail ServiceNow ITOM enables infrastructure and processes to be managed in a highly automated manner. It contains various segments that ensure its applications and enterprise infrastructures are optimized for high performance and helps in creating a lean and agile organization through service-level visibility and automation. This book will be a comprehensive guide that will be based on Geneva release and will help you discover how IT activities can be connected to your business needs, rather than just focusing on internal IT process. It will take a service-centric approach to operations management and consolidate all your resource data into a single system IT record. You will learn about discovery, orchestration, MID server and cloud management, helping you take full advantage of ServiceNow IT Operations Management to improve the quality of service & increasing the service availability. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve improved service availability, immediate visibility of vital business services and much more, all from the convenience of your single screen. Style and approach This will be a step by step learning guide helping readers to implement ServiceNow IT Operations Management for their organization.

ServiceNow Application Development
ServiceNow Application Development

Author: Sagar Gupta

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1787129780

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Develop and extend efficient cloud-native applications with ServiceNow About This Book Build and customize your apps and workflows to suit your organization's requirements Perform in-depth application development from designing forms to writing business rules, client-scripts, and workflows Comprehensive guide to the end-to-end implementation of designing and extending apps with ServiceNow Who This Book Is For If you are a ServiceNow administrator and developer and need to build and customize your service management solution (apps and workflows) with ServiceNow, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn Customize the ServiceNow dashboard to meet your business requirements Use Administration and Security Controls to add roles and ensure proper access Manage tables and columns using data dictionaries Learn how application scopes are defined within ServiceNow Configure different types of table to design your application Start using the different types of scripting options available in ServiceNow Design and create workflows for task tables Use debugging techniques available in ServiceNow to easily resolve script-related issues Run scripts at regular time intervals using the Scheduled Script Execution module In Detail ServiceNow provides service management for every department in the enterprise, including IT, Human Resources, Facilities, Field Service, and more. This book focuses on all the steps required to develop apps and workflows for any of your business requirements using ServiceNow. You will start with the first module, which covers the basics of ServiceNow and how applications are structured; how you can customize the dashboard as required; and also how to create users. After you get used to the dashboard, you will move on to the next module, Applications and Tables, where you will learn about working with different tables and how you can create a scope other than the global scope for your application. The next module is Scripting and APIs, where you will learn Scripting in ServiceNow and use powerful APIs to develop applications. The final module, Administration Essentials, covers debugging, advanced database features, and scheduled script creation. By the end of the book you will have mastered creating organized and customer-friendly applications Style and approach A step-by-step tutorial to designing applications and workflows with ServiceNow

ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows
ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

Author: Tim Woodruff

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-08-17

Total Pages: 1330

ISBN-13: 1788626907

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Master the management of IT Service using full potential of ServiceNow. About This Book Leverage ServiceNow's capabilities to achieve improved service management and excellent results in your IT operations by following step-by-step, practical instructions Build core administration, management, and maintenance skills with IT service management and IT operations management Improve your workflow efficiency by designing and creating responsive and automated workflows Who This Book Is For This course is for IT professionals, ServiceNow administrators, and developers who would like to gain greater control of ServiceNow and its architecture to design and create automated workflows. You should be familiar with JavaScript and basic computing technologies, but you can be new to ServiceNow. What You Will Learn Acquire and configure your own free personal developer instance of ServiceNow Read (and write!) clear, effective requirements for ServiceNow development Avoid common pitfalls and missteps that could seriously impact future progress and upgradeability Use the ServiceNow plugins to manage development Build and publish custom applications for service management Write efficient and effective client-side JavaScript Find out how to authenticate and secure Web Services Integrate and exchange data with people and systems Create and secure your systems with proper access control In Detail ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications, giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. This course will show you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world. We will introduce key concepts and examples on managing and automating IT services, and help you build a solid foundation towards this new approach. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events, and notifications. We'll then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Further on, you'll learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. At the end of this course, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining ServiceNow from the following Packt books: Learning ServiceNow ServiceNow Cookbook Mastering ServiceNow, Second Edition Style and approach This pragmatic guide follows problem-solution based approach to help you configure the ServiceNow and eliminate the challenges faced when implementing and using ServiceNow. It enables you to configure and manage ServiceNow, and learn the fundamentals of the ServiceNow platform.

ServiceNow Development Handbook - Third Edition
ServiceNow Development Handbook - Third Edition

Author: Tim Woodruff

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-08-11

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13:

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ServiceNow is a powerful ITSM (IT Service Management) software solution with a massively configurable back-end. One of the greatest benefits of ServiceNow is that it lets you do just about anything you could want to do, to suit the needs of your business. On that same note, one of the most dangerous things about ServiceNow, is that it lets you do just about anything! With such freedom and capacity for customization, comes risk, but that risk is not without great reward, which you can realize with a strong understanding of best-practice. Description The goal of this book is to explore the pitfalls, standards, and best-practices that most ServiceNow ITSM developers either learn the hard way, or never learn at all. These are the things that every developer wishes they knew from day one, and which - once learned - will make you a more effective and efficient developer. This book will teach you how to avoid pitfalls, and empower you with knowledge that will allow you to build much more robust, resilient, powerful, and efficient solutions within the platform. Having an understanding of why a given standard is what it is (and why it's important), will not only make you more likely to adhere to it, but will empower you to apply the logic and underlying concepts behind those standards to other areas of the platform and development. It'll make you a more effective administrator, developer, or architect. That's that spirit in which this compendium was written: Teaching and explaining, not simply listing out a series of arcane edicts under the heading of "best-practice". The ServiceNow Development handbook will serve to boost your knowledge, your confidence, and your career. What to expect The ServiceNow Development Handbook covers a wide range of topics including (but not limited to): Coding guidelines Writing DRY code Pass-by-reference Controlling fields in the client AJAX and asynchronicity When not to code Debugging Naming conventions List and form design Testing Execution paths Impersonation Handling Errors Code documentation Update sets Batching and merging What is (and isn't) tracked Tracking scoped records Performance Query efficiency Nested queries Service portal Widgets and option schema Portal coding best-practices Security Who this book is for Administrators and developers at any level of their ITSM development career would find the information in this handbook useful. However, this is a condensed "developer guide", and not a complete ServiceNow training course. If you are just starting out your ServiceNow development career, consider reading the more beginner-friendly "Learning ServiceNow, Second Edition" (ISBN-13: 978-1788837040) first. You can find Learning ServiceNow at http://lsn.snc.guru/ Note: This book's contents may be updated slightly over time, as new information becomes available. This is to prevent you from having to buy a new edition of this book, every time ServiceNow changes something about how their platform works, or for every minor addition to the contents. You can find details on the changes at http://changelog.snc.guru/. For this reason, we've made it so that if you buy the paperback version, you can get the Kindle version at a drastically reduced price, and can update your Kindle version for free whenever new content is available, by going to http://update.snc.guru/.

The Witch Doctor's Guide to Servicenow: Knowledge Is Around to Be Shared, Not to Be Forgotten
The Witch Doctor's Guide to Servicenow: Knowledge Is Around to Be Shared, Not to Be Forgotten

Author: Goran Witch Doctor Lundqvist

Publisher:

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781794626317

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ServiceNow has grown gigantic in the last years and have taken the leading role as the Enterprise Service Management system for the future. As the users have grown exponentially, the system has added a massive number of functionalities and only the imagination of its users sets the limit. The Witch Doctor's guide to ServiceNow is written to share the knowledge and best practices that the author Göran Lundqvist has collected over the years working with ServiceNow. Starting out as a customer and then moving over to work for a ServiceNow partner have given him insights and knowledge from both sides of the spectrum. It's knowledge from a vast number of hours in the community, learning and helping others together with creating videos and blog posts that make the foundation of this book. It might be a cliché, but the book is written in the theme of what he would say to himself if he could travel back in time to mentor himself when he started out with ServiceNow. All the small things and errors that you make on your journey in ServiceNow, both as a newbie and expert, this book contains knowledge for everyone.This book has been written and validated for the Madrid Release.Things you will learn: -Tables that you didn't know exist and the benefits from using them.-What to think about when you start creating your own tables and applications.-What is created first, the Request or the Request Items.-How to avoid performance issues in your Server-side code.-How to extend Baseline Script Includes and modify the functionality inside them.-How to use Flow Actions outside of a flow just like any Script Include.-How Agent Workspace works and what are the pros and cons.-How to setup mandatory notifications and how weight really works.

ServiceNow Cookbook
ServiceNow Cookbook

Author: Ashish Rudra Srivastava

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1785884131

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Over 50 practical and immediately applicable recipes to help you manage services in your enterprise environment efficiently About This Book Solve problems and challenges encountered while implementing or using ServiceNow in your organization Helps you build core administration, management, and maintenance skills to automate and orchestrate your IT environment Comes with recipes to improve the way you design and create automated workflows Who This Book Is For This book targets IT professionals and administrators who have some experience of working with ServiceNow already and are looking to solve regular or unique problems that surface when using ServiceNow. It's advisable to have a basic level of administration experience with ServiceNow. Familiarity with JavaScript is assumed. What You Will Learn Grasp the basics, such as entering and navigation, required to implement ServiceNow Perform core configuration and management tasks Use the ServiceNow plugins to manage development Build and publish custom applications for service management Design data-driven apps to connect with outside worlds by getting into Client and server scripting Configure alerts and notifications and understand e-mail troubleshooting and watermarking Build and configure reports to set up your dashboard as per the requirement Create and configure workflow activities In Detail ServiceNow is the ideal platform for you to create enterprise-level applications, giving borh requesters and fulfillers better visibility and access to a process. With this title we'll guide you through the world of ServiceNow, letting you take on the best the platform offers you with the least amount of hassle. Starting with the core configuration and management tasks, this book will help you build data-driven apps and it will also explore development best practices. You will learn to set up email notifications for users and work with the database view for reporting. Next, the book will guide you through creating various tasks from the workflow and show you how to make the most of the workflow utilities available in ServiceNow. Finally, the book will drive you through the auditing and diagnosing aspects of ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform. Style and approach This book follows a recipe-based problem-solution approach to address and dispel challenges faced when implementing and using ServiceNow on a regular basis.It will act as a quick solution when trying to solve specific problems without having to read an exhaustive tutorial.