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While the below technical tip has been provided with care and consideration, it’s important to acknowledge that individual circumstances may vary. Always ensure compatibility and feasibility within your specific ServiceNow environment before implementing any suggestions. Additionally, back up your data and proceed with caution when making any changes to your instance or workflows.
As with any change in ServiceNow, make sure you test any changes prior to moving to production.
Configuring a concurrent import set in ServiceNow
Importing large data sets into ServiceNow and transforming them can be a time-consuming process. Starting with the Madrid release, ServiceNow introduced the Concurrent Import Set feature, which presents a way to essentially “multi-thread” data imports. This functionality is available as a baseline feature and is fairly simple to leverage. Setup:
Configuring and using Interactive Filters on homepages and dashboards
For many organizations, ServiceNow homepages (and their evolved counterpart, dashboards) offer indispensable insights into platform data and operational health. In fact, ServiceNow’s reporting and Performance Analytics (PA) tools are among its greatest strengths. That said, some advanced reporting and PA tools are often under-utilized, likely due to a lack of
Easily identifying duplicate records in ServiceNow
A common need within ServiceNow is to identify duplicate records, according to a set of arbitrary criteria. Though the “list view” of a given table offers some advanced search and filtering capabilities, it does not give you the ability to natively identify records that share the same values across
Accessing Multi-row variables set client side in ServiceNow
Multi-row variable sets (MRVS) are a fairly recent addition to the Service Catalog in ServiceNow, having been introduced in the London release. Unlike a traditional variable set, which is a collection of singular variables, a MRVS allows the population of an arbitrary* number of rows of data, displayed in a
Avoiding the Pass-by-Reference JavaScript Pitfall in ServiceNow
A commonly encountered and potentially difficult to debug issue associated with writing scripts in ServiceNow is the case of unintentionally working with a reference to a javascript object property instead of the property’s value. This is most commonly encountered in instances where you are iterating through the results of a GlideRecord query.
Configuring code linting in ServiceNow
Recently, Pathways has been working to update our coding standards and establish a new code review process internally. In the search for tools to aid us, we came across a great new feature in the New York release of ServiceNow: customizable linting for the script editor. A more detailed explanation
