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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

Service Portal: Own your own form

Sometimes, you have to control your form. You can use the out of box variable types ServiceNow gives you and the messages they give you. But, sometimes, that won't due. In these times you have own the form. You might asking, "Jace, how do you do that? DOM ...

Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

New York Feature: Remote Tables

Making a remote table could be less work but as it is, it's better than what was before. If you are okay with _read only_ data from another system then this is actually pretty ...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

Why use a Service Account

On Slack someone asked me to post about service accounts. > Could anyone define some advantages of using a service account rather than a user account when it comes to integrati...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

Quick Guide: New York

Here's my take of whats new with New York Deprecated things [Processors-Listed under changes](https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/newyork-application-development/page/script/p...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

What is GlideOverlay

I was on twitter and this came up; > Try GlideOverlay instead. I can send you a DM with some sample code. > Or ping on SNDevs. > > \--- Jonathan Jacob (@TheBurgerlution) [Ju...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

Blog - Simplified layout

Hey everyone, I just updated the layout of the home page for my blog. I also did some... standardizing of the format's of the markdown files. I did a pretty good look over, but...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

Licensing... Again (Mid 2019)[redacted]

CONTENT REDACTED PER SERVICENOWS COUNCIL I'm sad that I can't share the content I have seen in public spaces. I don't want to cause more problems for anyone so I'm removing th...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

New side project: Dev Toolbox

Dev Toolbox is a scoped app to capture tests for all the Out of Box ServiceNow applications. This is a scoped application for Service-now to allow some utilities to be easily ad...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

How to build reports via URL

Building reports via the URL can be really useful when you don't want to ensure a report exists or hasn't been modified, but documentation is pretty lacking on it. Thankful...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

Madrid

Here's my take of whats new with Madrid Madrid I was told these are things I should look at; ![](https://jace.pro/static/img/madrid-review.png) | Thing ...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

How to activate plugins via script

Sometimes you have a whole bunch of plugins to install. No reason to keep your screen busy, you can script it, here's how. Some smart person named Ashby posted about this. I ha...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

Using Processors to download files

I was talking to Nthumma about a problem. It was the need for a custom XML file for each incident. I knew of a way to do this, but it's old. Enter Processors. If you ever have ...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

Silly Tech Videos

A while ago some people shared with me some great videos that were just silly. These are just, well in my opinion worth at least a cursory glance. If you're like me you'll p...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

Dawn Jurek's great list of Best Practices

Dawn Jurek has a great list of best practices that she keeps up to date. As much as I'd like to think that list will always exist, I've been burnt before, so this is my co...

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Jace's Blog · about 7 years ago

How to revert a bunch of records

Today I was tasked with reverting \~2k stories states to the past value. This is a daunting task as it requires someone to look at the sys_audit or sys_history_line tables. The ...

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Jace's Blog · over 7 years ago

Now there's a newsletter

I added a proper newsletter for folks who might want other notifications on a \~ monthly basis about this blog and things I want to share. It's on every page at the bottom. I p...

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Jace's Blog · over 7 years ago

Knowledge 19's Hackthon, a personal look

In my last post I said, "The hackathon is a great place to learn a new feature but it's not a hackathon. They expect you to have the app prebuilt before you get there." I just w...

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Jace's Blog · over 7 years ago

Notes from Knowledge 19

I was very lucky to get to go to Knowledge19\. Now that it's over, before I leave I want to jot down my thoughts. Of the labs, I attended I had no technical difficulty with the ...

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Jace's Blog · over 7 years ago

Winning ServiceNow Hackathon Ideas

This year I'm fortunate enough to go to knowledge, and one of my favorite SN people, Robert Fedoruk, posted a [YouTube video about winning hackathons](https://www.youtube.com/wa...

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Jace's Blog · over 7 years ago

How to restart a workflow

Restarting a workflow is sometimes needed. I found myself looking at how to to do this today. I'm posting this so I don't have to re-do this again. There are 2 ways to resta...

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