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Require Worknotes when Resolving an Incident with a Business Rule

Why Require Work Notes, When Resolving/Closing an Incident? This requirement should be default in all ServiceNow instances. Especially for P1/P2 incidents. You’ll see this request … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 20, 2022

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ServiceNow Admin

How Do I Setup A User As A Delegate In ServiceNow?

What Is A Delegate? Why Would I Set One Up? This sort of request happens all the time. Someone either goes on a long vacation, … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 20, 2022

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ServiceNow Admin

3 Ways To Make A Field Read Only In ServiceNow

There are multiple different ways to accomplish the same functionality in ServiceNow. So our jobs as admins in the platform is to figure out what … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 19, 2022

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Scripting

How To Save A Record Using g_form.save() On The Client

What Is g_form.save() There are so many use cases for this to be implemented. The scenario is that you’re working with a form, in some … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 19, 2022

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ServiceNow Admin

How To Add A Custom Field To An Application/Form

How To Add A New Field To A Form ServiceNow Admins get this request all the time. There are out of box fields, and then … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 18, 2022

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Scripting

Prevent Submission Of A Form With an onSubmit() Client Script

Why Would You Want To Prevent A Form From Being Submitted In ServiceNow? This is a fairly common request that comes in from our end … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 18, 2022

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ServiceNow Admin

How To Migrate Data via XML Files, From One Environment To Another in ServiceNow

Understanding XML in ServiceNow XML is just a data structure. Your data in ServiceNow, can be easily moved around, using this data structure. If you … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 14, 2022

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Scripting

Require A Minimum Length For A Field

Why Create A Minimum Field Length Requirement Say your end users aren’t filling out certain forms, as well as you’d like them to. As admins … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 14, 2022

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Best Practices

Auto Close Incidents Last Updated More Than 5 Days Ago

How Long Should ServiceNow Incidents Be Open For? There is no “one-size-fits-all” answer here. It depends on a) the type of incident b) it’s impact … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 13, 2022

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Best Practices

How To Make An API Call To ServiceNow With Python

Using Python With ServiceNow You can use Python to integrate directly with ServiceNow. So you can do things like create incidents, delete change requests, get … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 12, 2022

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