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Learning ServiceNow

You're reading from   Learning ServiceNow Get started with ServiceNow administration and development to manage and automate your IT Service Management processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883323
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sylvain Hauser Sylvain Hauser
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Tim Woodruff Tim Woodruff
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

1. The Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Lists and Forms 3. UI Customization 4. Understanding Data and Relationships 5. Tasks and Workflows 6. UI and Data Policies 7. User Administration and Security 8. Introduction to Scripting 9. The Server-side Glide API 10. The Client-side Glide API 11. Server-side Scripting 12. Client-side Scripting 13. Debugging 14. Pro Tips

Server-side debugging

Server-side debugging can consist of debugging server-side scripts and other behavior, as well as performance and security issues. Debugging server-side scripts can often be slightly more difficult, as the exact source of the undesired behavior is not necessarily logged or thrown as an error message visible on the client. Instead, you must search through the logs for thrown errors and sometimes use trial-and-error and custom log messages to determine the exact source of the issue. For this reason, using try/catch() blocks in your server-side code can be a good idea. This is also true of client-side code in fact, but it is especially important with server-side code.

While try/catch() blocks are a great way to build in error-handling behavior, it should not be relied upon to control the flow of your code. They should only be used when the catch block can handle the error in some sensible...
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