{"revision":"c10276e953456835cdbb1f3a60d58ae1980be353","document":{"id":40030,"path":"platform-administration/time-configuration/r_EventRegistry.md","title":"Event registry","bundle":null,"doc_type":null,"release":"australia","body":"\n# Event registry\n\nYou can use events to schedule actions or tasks to occur when conditions are fulfilled.\n\nFor example:\n\n-   **kb.view**\n\n    An event triggered when a user views a Knowledge Base article. You use it to trigger the script action Knowledge View that create a Knowledge Use record every time an article is viewed.\n\n-   **incident.commented**\n\n    An event triggered when a user comments on an article, used by two incidents commented email notifications.\n\n-   **Inactivity Monitors**\n\n    If a record has not been updated for a defined length of time, an inactivity monitor triggers an event.\n\n-   **Script Actions**\n\n    Scripts that trigger when an event is recorded in the log. You can set scripts to execute whenever a particular activity occurs in the platform, rather than at a particular time, such as scheduled jobs, or in response to particular conditions, such as [Business rules](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/api-reference/c_BusinessRules.md).\n\n-   **Notifications**\n\n    You can also use events to trigger Email Notifications when an event is recorded in the log.\n\n\n**Parent Topic:**[Event scheduling](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/time-configuration/c_ScheduleEvents.md)\n\n**Related topics**  \n\n\n[Set an inactivity monitor]()\n\n"}}