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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Zing Search engine doesn't respect underscore

I opened a HI ticket about this and they communicated that the global text search does not respect more non-alphanumeric characters. It turns out that the keyword search doesn't respect _ characters. Meaning if you search for "this_custom_word" and you...

Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

How to do reminders in ServiceNow

This has come up often enough that it merits a post. Reminders of sorts can be set up a four ways in ServiceNow. This is the pros and cons of each. There's a four ways I know o...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Search trick on table

During one the Let's code happy hours, Josh Nerius made a point to call out this tip while looking for a table. If you are used to typing sys_user or user and then scrolling an...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Slightlooney

A long time ago a man called "[SlightlyLooney](https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community%5Fuser%5Fprofile&user=6d5e8ae5dbd41fc09c9ffb651f96191a)" used to write pos...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Prepare for an interview - it'll be fun

This is a extensive list of questions for both interviewers and interviewees when ServiceNow Development is involved. Interview Preparation Interviewing is exciting. It's a w...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Debugging with fix scripts

Debugging for me always starts with isolating the parts of the failing code. The quickest way for me to find the issue varies but it almost always includes some variation of or...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Create Item from Script

I made this a while ago to save me some time of having to interact with the GUI. Works well enough, and will get updates to become a scoped app or script include... It's a start...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

What is g_ck

What is g_ck and why should I care? g_ck is the current sessions token for authentication. Why would you want to use this or know about this It's useful for making rest requ...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Knowledge 18 Notes

I was very lucky to get to go to Knowledge18 and before I leave I just want to write this down as to not forget it. Of the labs, I attended I had no technical difficulty with t...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Code Search Updated

After some back and forth between the creator of the sn_codesearch app [Cory Seering](https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community%5Fuser%5Fprofile&user=bf225e65dbd81...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

How to work with Out of Box things

This is something I've been told differently how to manage out of the box records. I go over the pros and cons of them here. Ways to work with Out of Box things in ServiceNow ...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Certifications SN Offers

After hearing about how certifications are changing I read up on it some. I found the site confusing, so I made this post to put the useful thoughts together. [Certifications]...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Discovery Patterns for AWS

Patterns are a new and interesting thing in ServiceNow. Discovery Patterns This is a work in progress, but wanted to share as I will otherwise never get this down on paper. ...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Instance options can change CSS

Turns out you can apply CSS to a instance record I had no idea you could do this. This may have saved me from cloning widgets had I known. If you ctrl+right-click a widget and...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Where are the logs?

A [post was made](https://community.servicenow.com/thread/292580) and I was working through some security tasks of my one. I felt inspired to make a post about it. Below is a li...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Versions of libraries

Sometimes you just want to know the versions of software you're using. xml <j:jelly trim="true" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:g2="null" xmlns:j2="null"> <g:inl...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

How to print out all the variables (OLD)

Let me preface this code with there is another way to do this but it's undocumented. That is using the GlideappVariablePoolQuestionSet class as [posted here by Chuck Tomasi](h...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Serice Portal Record Producer Redirects

I was asked to set up the redirect from a record producer on the Service Portal. This was no problem in the past CMS, and the normal GUI. The [docs](https://docs.servicenow.com/...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Pasting Images in the classic UI

Sometime ago I looked for the ability to paste images onto a form and have it attach in both the [portal](https://jace.pro/Service-Portal/Pasting-Images-on-the-Portal/), and the...

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Jace's Blog · over 8 years ago

Service Portal Pasting Images

In the past I've tried to set up image pasting before with [Lars Tange's solution](https://share.servicenow.com/app.do/detailV2/4fa0b76f137826001d2abbf18144b065/overview), but t...

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Jace's Blog · almost 9 years ago

RIP Wiki

With all the announcements that ServiceNow is ending their Wiki, it makes me a little sad. I had once contributed to the pages before it locked down. With that being said, I lea...

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Jace's Blog · almost 9 years ago

ServiceNow licensing (circa 2017)

This is out of date. This was written in 2017 and it's been years since then. Models have changed some but I am keeping this post up as it may be useful to some. If you have lic...

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