Time Configuration / reference
Global date and time field format
You define default date and time formats globally using system properties.
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Time Configuration / reference
You define default date and time formats globally using system properties.
MetricBase / task
Experiment with MetricBase APIs using Data Explorer that is part of the MetricBase Demo application. Data Explorer uses the data installed with the MetricBase Demo application.
Service Graph Connectors / concept
The SG-GCP Execute Patch Job and SG-GCP Get Patch Job scheduled import jobs enable deep discovery by running patch jobs at the GCP project level.
Customer service management / reference
The form provides information about the generator type and generator inputs.
Field Service Integrations / reference
Various plugins, script includes, and business rules are installed with the Incident Management for Field Service application.
Application development / concept
Autonomous Engineer tools support application development tasks such as semantic search, schema inspection, code search, planning, UI validation, database querying, app navigation, and script execution. Each tool extends what Autonomous Engineer can do during a build session.
Localization Workspace / task
Give Localization Workspace access to your content by setting Restricted Caller Access privileges. Setting these privileges is required only when target tables or scripts are restricted.
Software Asset Management / concept
Automated license reconciliation keeps license positions accurate and up-to-date without manual calculations. Reconciliation runs weekly or on demand.
Impact / reference
Refer to the Proactive Code Check (PCC) scan suite matrix for details on the checks performed during a PCC scan.
Server API Reference / concept
The IPAddressFixup script include provides methods that ensure that no other device has the same IP address, after a device has been successfully discovered.
Security Incident Response / reference
The Setup Assistant walks you through the steps you need to perform to set up the Security Incident Response base system.
HR Service Delivery / concept
You can create and use methods to reclassify or transfer an opened HR case from one HR service to another. Oftentimes an HR case opens as a General Benefits Inquiry.
Resource Management / task
Configure the resource profiling score to adjust how the AI Resource Finder ranks candidates by modifying attribute weights in the CandidateProfileScoringConfigSNC script include.
Server API Reference / concept
The WorkflowScheduler script include provides a method to start a workflow.Starts the workflow specified in current, which is a record in the Workflow Schedule [wf_workflow_schedule] table.
CMDB Integration Commons / reference
The Robust Transform Engine (RTE) transforms are templated operations included within the Integration Commons for CMDB (sn_cmdb_int_util) store app.
Platform security / task
Execute a script to run the cryptographic module policy for a cryptographic purpose. Specific read (decrypt/unwrap) or write (encrypt, wrap) access can be defined based on the module access policy operation granularity.
Virtual Agent / concept
Use ServiceNow Virtual Agent script methods and variables to write chat scripts, such as response, trigger, and flow scripts. Variables can also provide context for your live support topics and conversations.
Server API Reference / concept
The VMUtils script include provides methods for discovery and provisioning of virtual machines.Converts a correlation ID into a UUID for a virtual machine in the ServiceNow system.Converts a WMware universal unique identifier (UUID) to a format that matches the original format…
Scripts / concept
Control when to track and indicate that code is AI-generated.Show that the code was generated by AI in script editors for a specified duration after accepting code suggestions.Turn off tracking and indicating which code is AI-generated.
Orchestration / task
Create an activity that extracts data from a target host that uses the SSH network protocol.Use execution parameters to create the input process script in the Pre Processing form of the activity designer.Use these parameters to create a post-processing script, payload parsing,…
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