— title: Example 5: Delete a record in an external source description: In this example, we create a script to delete an incident record from the external source. locale: en-US canonical_url: www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/servicenow-platform/remote-tables/remote-table-script-def-example5.html release: australia product: Remote Tables classification: remote-tables topic_type: reference last_updated: “2026-03-12” reading_time_minutes: 1

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Example 5: Delete a record in an external source

In this example, we create a script to delete an incident record from the external source.

For Remote Table API information, refer to:

• v_query – Scoped, Global

• v_record - Scoped, Global

• v_table – Scoped, Global

(function executeDelete(v_record) {

     var gr = new GlideRecord('incident');
     if (gr.get(v_record.sys_id)) {
         gr.deleteRecord();
     } else {
         v_record.setLastErrorMessage("Record not found");
     }
 })(v_record);

Parent Topic:Create script definitions for a remote table