It is ServiceNow’s new release season! With the Paris release in Early Access, we will show some enhancements targeted around being more effective and efficient as a developer. To get access to these new things, you have to upgrade! This article will be about the new features available to help scope the size of the effort and improve the Admin/Dev team’s upgrade experience.
Upgrade Center New in Paris is the Upgrade Center.
Join me as I sit down with Brad Tilton for a discussion about how to get started as a ServiceNow Developer. We cover a number of prerequisites and helpful resources that you can use to further your skills and career.
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Developer portal ServiceNow Community Now Learning SNDevs Slack
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.
It is ServiceNow’s new release season! With the Paris release in Early Access, we will show some enhancements targeted around being more effective and efficient as a developer. These tools are specifically for developers and scripting on the Now Platform.
Global Scoped Applications Support for Source Control You might be aware that scoped application development was enhanced in Orlando with the addition of:
Selective / Partial Commits Editing outside platform / Branching & Merging Automation for deployment from source control If you are unfamiliar with source control or wish to learn what ServiceNow resources are available, you can find them here.
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.
This post is being continually being updated with links to our Paris Release topic blog posts and Live Coding Happy Hour (LCHH) video content.
Paris is Released!! It is that time of the year, new release Early Availability(EA) time. Each EA period is a flurry of activity in the Developer Program. Blogs, Videos, Demos, Slide decks Oh MY! I am always delighted to share and highlight what is new for developers.
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.
Thank you to all who responded (over 20,000!) to the survey conducted from February to March earlier this year. We appreciate the time, feedback, and insights you provided. The survey results will play a vital role in continuing to shape the Developer Program and Site for not only your needs but the greater ecosystem as well.
Below is an infographic of the results, followed by a more detailed explanation of each graphic/area.
This is a guest post from one of our Developer MVPs, Robert Fedoruk, on how to be a better ServiceNow developer
“If I’m not a developer, how do I be a better ServiceNow Developer”? (I’ve placed a TL;DR section at the end) A subscriber asked me this today. I thought the answer might benefit everyone. There’s two options available to become a “better ServiceNow developer” if you don’t have a developer background.
