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Best Practices

How To Get a ServiceNow Personal Developer Instance (PDI)

The ability to create your own ServiceNow Personal Developer Instance (PDI), on any recent software family version, completely for free – is available to everyone. … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: August 18, 2022

servicenow gr.getRowCount()

Best Practices

How To Get The Number Of Records/Rows In A GlideRecord Query With getRowCount()

There are many times in a ServiceNow Developer’s life where they simply need to know how many records are being returned in a GlideRecord query. … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: August 15, 2022

servicenow user object gs.getUser()

Scripting

How To Get The Username Of Current User – User Object gs.getUser()

When you are scripting around the current user, you’ll find that the user object comes in handy. There are often times you’ll need to perform … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: August 10, 2022

Rest API Explorer

REST API

ServiceNow Table API – Integrate using cURL, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl or Powershell

Below, I’ll show you how you can use 7 different scripting languages to authenticate to ServiceNow and retrieve/consume data. You can integrate with ServiceNow with … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: July 12, 2022

Platform Management

JavaScript & Glide API in ServiceNow

Many people who work with ServiceNow don’t full understand how the platform is modified and managed by admins and developers. Many recruiters, managers and people … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: July 11, 2022

Best Practices, Scripting, ServiceNow Admin

How To Clear The Cache in ServiceNow

Clearing the instance cache is a crucial component of being a ServiceNow Admin/Developer. If you don’t understand how and when to clear the cache, you … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: July 8, 2022

ServiceNow Tables (sys_db_object)

Best Practices

ServiceNow – The List of All Tables (sys_db_object)

I have attempted to post all 3,954 tables that are out of box in every ServiceNow environment in this post, but it significantly decreases this … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: June 27, 2022

creating a servicenow table

Best Practices

How To Create A Table In ServiceNow

In ServiceNow, tables are the cornerstone of every application. At the end of the day, everything is a record in a table. All business rules, … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: June 23, 2022

RITM in ServiceNow Task

Best Practices

How Do Requests, Request Items and Catalog Tasks work?

The request engine in ServiceNow is often misunderstood. What is a request? What is a requested item? How are they different from incidents? These common … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: June 17, 2022

servicenow hi customer support portal

Best Practices

What Does HI Stand For in ServiceNow?

What is HI in ServiceNow? HI stands for Hosted ITIL. Many people have highly contested this question, with a lot of people supporting the idea … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: June 17, 2022

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