Chuck Tomasi

Chuck Tomasi

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2021 Developer MVP Ashley Snyder joins Chuck to talk about how ServiceNow found her, what it has meant to her career, her favorite feature, and a few laughs along the way. Have a listen. Topics 00:00 Introductions 05:01 ServiceNow found Ashley 06:00 Where Ashley finds help 06:52 How ServiceNow impacted Ashley’s career 07:43 Becoming a specialist 09:40 Ashley’s Favorite feature 12:24 Ashley’s super hero story 14:50 Funnest thing ever built 16:28 First Knowledge 19:22 Looking forward to CreatorCon 21 22:07 One thing to change 23:36 Ashley’s dream job 24:24 Contact Ashley 24:49 Outro Links Ashley’s Blog LinkedIn Subscribe to Break Point Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Stitcher TuneIn RSS Check out the other ServiceNow podcasts.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

Take your mobile ServiceNow experience up a notch with mobile card actions. Join the team as they bring back David Murch and Rayan Bouajram from the mobile team to demonstrate the various features of mobile card actions and how they can save people time. Topics 00:00 Start 01:20 Introductions/announcements 04:09 Mobile card builder and actions overview 05:25 Accessing mobile card builder 06:43 Configuring templates 09:05 Adding/configuring a single action button 21:11 Adding/configuring a multi action button 26:33 Overriding buttons on the card 30:45 Beyond Quebec & final questions 34:25 Closing comments Links Creator Toolbox: Mobile Card Builder Docs: Mobile Card Builder (Q) About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

Check out one of the hottest new features in the Now PlatformB.! Join product manager Valerie Myers Christensen as she explains and demonstrates the features in App Engine Studio (AES). You’ll learn how low-coders and experienced developers can create apps faster than ever before with a beautiful user interface. Topics 00:00 Introductions 04:17 Break Point podcast 05:40 Poll question #1 06:20 Introduction to App Engine Studio (slides) 16:30 Poll question #2 w/Q&A 19:19 AES Demo - Overview 21:35 Creating app - data 26:10 Experiences & UI Builder 28:59 Automation 29:54 Creating an app from an app template 33:52 Governance 35:07 Mobile 37:10 Poll question #3 37:22 Q&A 40:05 Takeaways 40:49 Outro & events Links Docs: App Engine Studio (Quebec) About: TechNow is a monthly show for ServiceNow admins, developers, and builders on a wide variety of platform features.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

Chris Haas joins Break Point to discuss App Engine Studio, the all-new low-code way to build apps fast! Topics 00:00 Welcome/Introductions 04:28 Why did ServiceNow build AES? 08:20 Discovering the power of the platform 12:14 Licensing & release schedule 17:54 Templates 22:00 Creatures of habit 25:51 Where we are and where we’re going 35:36 More info 37:30 Contact info 37:47 Outro Links Docs: App Engine Studio (Quebec) LinkedIn Mail Subscribe to Break Point Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Stitcher TuneIn RSS Check out the other ServiceNow podcasts.

Chuck Tomasi

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Chuck takes us through a recent example of turning a scripted outbound REST API into an IntegrationHub spoke and subflow for easier maintenance and reuse. Topics 00:00 Introduction 05:00 Screen share and problem statement 08:30 How it works today 11:35 Let’s build an action 12:12 The action inputs 21:30 The REST call 27:53 The JSON Parser 34:39 The outputs 38:00 Debugging 40:45 Error checking, subflows, status and scripting tips 46:08 Next steps/summary 47:45 Announcements Links Docs: IntegrationHub REST step (Quebec) Break Point Podcast TechNow Ep 85 - App Engine Studio About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

4 minute read

Over the past few years, customers and analysts have been telling us two things: “We need more digital transformation of our workflows” and “We need more developers.” Introducing App Engine Studio (AES). AES is the fastest way to start building ServiceNow apps for creators of all skill levels. Let’s break this down into three main blocks: speed, experiences, and scale. Speed What makes AES so fast? First, a modern/consumer-based design allows you to move through the steps to create an app quickly.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

On this episode, join Chuck, Andrew, Mark, and Brad Cai as they explore Instance Scan in Quebec.Crack a beverage and come join us! Topics 02:36 Introductions/Beers 07:46 Instance Scan overview 14:35 Screenshare 15:45 Suites 22:09 Getting in to the checks 26:59 The advanced/script field 29:30 Building a new linter check 31:17 Sidebar: Types of checks 46:29 Getting devs info faster is cheaper 47:50 Point checks 52:43 Scanning other things 54:14 Dashboards 55:14 Muting a finding 58:19 Screenshare stopped/closing comments 1:01:09 Rating of the beers 1:03:07 On the roadmap Links Docs: Instance Scan (Quebec) About: Live Coding Happy Hour is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

Join Brad Tilton as he shows us preview upgrade feature introduced in Paris, and some of the new upgrade capabilities in the Quebec release. Topics 01:00 Introductions 03:20 Screenshare starts w/upgrade preview 06:44 Personalized docs 09:44 Skip list predictions 10:50 ATF preview 11:44 Preview details 14:17 The upgrade monitor 18:45 Logging 22:05 Further down the monitor page 25:06 The VTB 27:07 Properties 28:21 Announcements/news Links Docs: Upgrade Center TechNow Ep 85 | Create apps fast with App Engine Studio Break Point Podcast LCHH Developer Portal About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

On this episode, join Andrew, Brad, Chuck, and Jeremy to demonstrate how you can configure/customize out-of-the-box and store apps in Studio, then promote them to production without using update sets! Crack a beverage and come join us! Topics 02:50 Introductions/Beer 06:47 Screenshare starts - loading an app from the store 08:55 Opening the store app in Studio 10:21 Are all store/OOB apps editable? 13:25 Making a simple change and publishing/installing 19:33 Discovering conflicting changes 28:01 Try this with source control 34:59 Dealing with branches 40:10 Publishing a new app 42:29 Differences between store apps and custom apps 44:56 Why still use update sets?

Chuck Tomasi

3 minute read

One of the coolest developer tools in the Quebec release is the Script Tracer. Script tracer helps you identify scripts that perform the GlideRecord operations down to the exact line of code during execution. This reduces the number of scripts that may have issues and need to be debugged. This saves time and improves productivity. Note:b/Script Tracer requires the admin role. You can find the Script Tracer by navigating to System Diagnostics > Script Tracer.