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Calculate Distance Between Two Locations in ServiceNow (without an API call!)
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> “_I have some records in ...
How to Identify Duplicate Records by Multiple Fields in ServiceNow
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> _All my certifications are linked with a ServiceNow / NOW Learning account with my old business email, but I’m no longer with that company and can’t access that account anymore. Deltas are coming...
How to Merge Personal & Company ServiceNow Accounts
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I believe that Richard Feynman can teach ServiceNow developers (and any software developers) a great deal - about physics, sure; but also about our own discipline.
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While watching [this video](https://youtu.be/mcjTRR3L2R0) by the venerable Jace Benson, I was inspired by an idea presented around the 4-minute mark, which he picked up from Maik Skoddow's article,...
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Managing Instance-Specific System Properties for Dev/Test/Prod in ServiceNow
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Your ServiceNow instance DEFINITELY has DANGEROUS CODE executing in it _RIGHT NOW_, causing performance issues, unexpected behavior, and hiding records from people who should be able to see them (i...
5 Ways to Check your ServiceNow Instance for DANGEROUS CODE in Less Than 5 minutes
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> _“My ACL requires a given role. A user has that role, but is still failing the access check. The ACL debugger says that the ACL script is what’s failing, but my ACL is not “Advanced” and there’s ...
Your ACLs and Business Rules are Broken (Here's How to Fix Them)
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Every ServiceNow developer, administrator, and architect has at one time or another, got a requirement from their client that they _know_ is bad-practice, silly, or sub-optimal.
I often come acro...
ServiceNow Developers: BE THE GUIDE!
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_EfficientGlideRecord_ is a client-side API class from which you can perform asynchronous client-side GlideRecord-style queries while maximizing performance (eliminating the negative performance im...
A Faster, More Efficient Client-side GlideRecord (Free tool!) →
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I recently found myself in a bit of a sticky pickle in ServiceNow. I was building a client-side UI Action which needed to call a Script Include via [GlideAjax](https://ajax.snc.guru).
The server...
Animated Loading Message & Collapsible Details on ServiceNow Form or Field (Client-side)
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Here’s a common question:
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Using .addJoinQuery() & How to Query Records with Attachments in ServiceNow
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🛠️That’s right folks, it's yet another FREE ServiceNow tool on SN Pro Tips!🔧
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Free, Simple URL Shortener for ServiceNow Nerds (snc.guru)
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I come across this question all the time in the ServiceNow community forums, and in the ServiceNow developer community [Discord](https://discord.snc.guru), [Slack](https://slack.snc.guru), and [Tel...
How to Get and Parse ServiceNow Journal Entries as Strings/HTML
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Imagine you’re searching for an issue you’re researching in ServiceNow, and the first result you find on Google is a ServiceNow documentation page… from the _Jakarta_ version of ServiceNow. It’s to...
New tool: Get Latest Version of ServiceNow Docs Page
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[RANT](https://www.linkedin.com/signup/cold-join?session%5Fredirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Ffeed%2Fhashtag%2Frant&trk=public%5Fpost-text): I've heard from some folks on the unofficial [Ser...
Tim Woodruff on LinkedIn: Will ServiceNow charge per custom table/column? | 17 comments
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Whether you’ve been getting the dreaded “Repository authentication failed” error message in ServiceNow, or you just want to change which Git repository your ServiceNow application is associated wit...
How to Set or Change ServiceNow Application's Repository URL, Credentials, or SSH Key
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I recently dealt with a requirement whereby I needed to export only certain columns from records on a given table that match a given query, to a CSV file.
“_No problem_”, I said; “_that’s easy. Y...
How to return a CSV file from a Scripted REST API (SRAPI) in ServiceNow
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Very often, we’ll find ourselves writing a custom application (whether scoped or global) that requires some “setup” by the admin who installs it. Maybe we’re writing the app to be di...
Adding a Guided Setup to Your ServiceNow Application
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Here's a Quick Pro-Tip:
If you have an application which requires some setup or initial configuration, write ATF tests specifically to validate that the application is set up properly. Add executi...
Use Automated Tests to Validate "Guided Setup" Completion & Functionality.
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Processors in ServiceNow are (_were_) actually extremely useful things, though they’re surprisingly not very well-known. They give you a URL you can hit (like _my\_processor.do_) and allow you to r...
"Processors", SRAPIs, and How to Run a Script and Redirect a User From a URL in ServiceNow
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You’ve just implemented a new instance, process, catalog item, or workflow.
You put all that time and thought, and effort into making sure that _everything_ that _anyone_ could _possibly_ want t...
Better ServiceNow Notifications (& Another FREE Tool!)
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When dealing with server-side scripts, the ServiceNow Debugger makes debugging relatively easy (most of the time), as you can actually see into the call stack, and the contents of your server-side ...
Every once in a while, I look into the top search terms people have entered into Google or Bing (lol, who uses Bing?) that take them to this site. I do this to see if there are any common questions...
Can ServiceNow Script Includes Use the "current" Variable?
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> _Update, Jan 15, 2020__: Added a section at the bottom to cover how to handle the_ _application/x-www-form-urlencoded_ _Content-type._
If you’ve ever tried to set up an AWS/SNS integration, you ...
Handling 'text/plain' and Other Unsupported Content Types in ServiceNow Scripted REST APIs
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