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ServiceNow Application Development

You're reading from   ServiceNow Application Development Transform the way you build apps for enterprises

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128712
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Gupta Sagar Gupta
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to ServiceNow FREE CHAPTER 2. User Administration 3. Data Management 4. Application Scopes 5. Modules, Forms, and Views 6. Introduction to ServiceNow Scripting 7. Client-Side Scripting 8. Server-Side Scripting 9. Jelly Scripting 10. Events and Notifications 11. Workflow Development 12. Debugging in ServiceNow 13. Advanced Database Features 14. Job Scheduling and Data Export-Import

Script actions

Script actions are server-side JavaScript code that is executed when an event it is listening to is triggered on the specified table. Just like any other server-side script, script actions have access to all the server-side glide APIs, script includes, and other server-side resources.

The following steps show you how to create a script action:

  1. Open the Create New Application File wizard in Studio, select Server Development | Script Action, and click on the Create button.
  2. Fill in the new script action record form with the following values:
    • Name: Update Reassignment Count
    • Event: x_8940_travel_book.assigned_to_changed
    • Active: Checked
    • Script: (Use the following mentioned code)
  1. Write the following code in the script field:
        current.reassignment_count += 1; 
        current.update(); 

In the preceding code, we are incrementing the reassignment_count field...

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