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Best Practices

Explore our comprehensive guide on best practices for ServiceNow administration and development, featuring expert insights and proven techniques to optimize your platform experience.

Dive into essential topics such as application development, scripting, workflow automation, and configuration management.

Learn how to leverage ServiceNow’s powerful features, including IT Service Management (ITSM), IT Operations Management (ITOM), and IT Business Management (ITBM), to drive business efficiency and enhance user satisfaction.

Stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends, security measures, and integration methodologies to maximize your ServiceNow investment and ensure seamless, scalable performance across your organization.

how to use glideaggregate in a query

Best Practices

How To Use GlideAggregate In ServiceNow – A Complete Guide

Many developers, even seasoned ones, don’t have a truly solid grasp on using GlideAggregate. Most developers will get something like gr.getRowCount(), to find a tables … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: December 9, 2022

get the data type of an object

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How To Convert An Object To A String In ServiceNow – .toString()

There are different data types in ServiceNow, when using JavaScript. JavaScript is a “weakly” typed scripting language. Which means that when you declare a variable, … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: August 31, 2022

gs.log() creates a log record gs.print() does not

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The Difference Between gs.log() and gs.print()

ServiceNow Admins and Developers use logging statements all the time. When you’re in the development environment, you’re constantly throwing logs, to see what value is … Read more

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Written by: Team Snowball

Published on: August 19, 2022

servicnow personal developer instance pdi

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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()

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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

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)

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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

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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

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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

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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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