Brad Tilton
The Paris release brought many new features and enhancements to our Mobile functionality on the Now Platform. This post will highlight the top features in Paris that ServiceNow developers should be aware of.
Mobile Filter Enhancement Before Paris, any filtering users did in the mobile application in lists and map applets happened on the client-side. That meant that they could only filter against the columns shown in a list and the data in the current pagination.
It’s Paris mobile week here on the developer blog, and my favorite new mobile feature in Paris is Actionable Push Notifications. These actionable push notifications allow the mobile app user to take an action by hitting a button on the notification itself without having to open the app or a browser. The most obvious use case for this is being able to approve or reject an approval directly from a push notification, similarly to how notification mailto templates have allowed you to approve directly from an email for a long time.
Flow Designer received many new features and enhancements in the Paris release, and I’m going to focus on the intersection of Flow Designer and Service Catalog for this post. Flow Designer is an important component in automating the process behind Service Catalog requests, and every release brings a tighter integration and additional support for the catalog in Flow Designer.
Submit Catalog Item Request action The first enhancement is a new action that ships with Paris called Submit Catalog Item Request.
The Automated Test Framework received some incremental updates in the Paris release aimed at increasing test coverage and making testing a little easier for custom UIs.
Add Attachments to Form (SP) Test Step The first of our Paris ATF enhancements is fairly straightforward, but really helpful if you need to write an automated test for attaching a file to a record through the form widget in the Service Portal. This would work on a record producer, catalog item, or record form using the form widget.
The Script Debugger enables users with the script_debugger role to debug server-side JavaScript and should be your primary strategy for debugging Business Rules and other synchronous server-side scripts.
If you’re not yet familiar with the script debugger or need a review, the Server-side Scripting Module on the Developer site has a section on the script debugger updated for Paris you can work through.
New in Paris - The Console In the Paris release, a console has been added to the script debugger that allows developers to evaluate script expressions in real-time.
Did you know that the ServiceNow Developer Program helps sponsor a community of 60+ Developer Meetups worldwide? Last quarter, organizers hosted 20+ Meetups with attendees from around the world. We are continuing our Virtual Meetups.
What are developer meetups? Developer meetups are events where you can meet up with colleagues in your area to learn and discuss ServiceNow Application Development. Get support from the community of developers, the Developer Program, and ServiceNow employees and partners.
If you are building Now Experience UI Framework Components, you will probably need your components to interact with the ServiceNow database. To do that from a component, you’ll need to use the Http Effect API. This post will walk through using the Http effect to consume the REST Table API to display the number and short description from the latest incident in a ServiceNow PDI. It may not be the most practical use case, but the goal is to show an easy way to interact with ServiceNow data from a component.
Here on the developer blog we try to regularly highlight the contributions from our 2020 Developer MVPs. They produce an abundance of great content aimed at ServiceNow developers that I’ve listed below grouped by the content creator.
I need to shout out to Jace Benson’s (one of our dev MVPs) ServiceNow news aggregator at https://jace.pro/news/, which I used extensively to put this post together.
Andrew Albury-Dor The ‘New Dev’ Experience Paris Predictions: CI/CD, Mon Ami Knowledge 2020 Digital Event & Hackathon - My Wrap Earl Duque Knowledge 2020 Hackathon Honorable Mention and tips for the future Using ServiceNow to locate the International Space Station Knowledge 2020 Speaker - Quality of Life items available on ServiceNow Share Jace Benson TechNow Ep76 Review of Flow Designer How to remove options from a select box Own Your Content Always Negotiate How do you refer to ServiceNow?
Things are different 2020 has made many things different. A big part of the developer program’s focus every year is helping ensure high-quality content is available for developers at the Knowledge conference. We create our talks and workshops and review others in service to that effort. Since the digital experience was so different this year, we thought each of us would share a little bit about how it was unusual.
We hope everyone has been enjoying the Knowledge Digital Experience this year. It has been a few weeks since we aired the CreatorCon 2020 Hackathon finals announcing the finalists and winner, and we wanted to recognize some of the teams that didn’t make the finals, but got close. You can find those in the Honorable Mentions section below and those teams will be receiving some ServiceNow swag. We have also included links to the five-minute pitch videos submitted by many of the teams that competed.
