Creator Toolbox

Catch the episode Enhanced Security and Streamlined Management: What’s New in the ServiceNow Vancouver Release The latest ServiceNow Vancouver release provides significant upgrades to the platform’s security capabilities. With enhanced products like Zero Trust Access, an improved Vault suite, and more granular adaptive authentication, ServiceNow customers now have robust protection and simplified administration at their fingertips. The new Access Analyzer tool ensures users have appropriate access while the upgraded Column-Level interface provides an efficient overview of all access policies.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

In this episode, Brad and Chuck look at IntegrationHub Dynamic Inputs. Reduce maintenance and extend the life of your actions by using data from the target system to drive the choices available on the action inputs. Topics 00:00 Start 02:04 Welcome and introductions 03:26 Topic overview 06:49 Screen share & use case description 09:10 Creating the Dynamic Choice action 20:50 Using the dynamic choice action 24:53 Creating a Dynamic Template action 31:01 Using the dynamic template action 35:40 Summary and Q&A 40:26 One more thing… 44:47 Announcements Info TechNow Rome Features registration Table name: sys_hub_action_input_action_instance Error message: Cannot find data object.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

On this episode, join Brad. Chuck, and guest Daniel Draes as they dive in to ATF and create some custom test steps. Topics 00:00 Start 01:50 Welcome and introductions 07:07 Screenshare started 08:30 Review the spoke to test 12:00 Creating a custom test configuration 22:44 Adding the new step 23:45 Adding input/output variables 28:40 Testing the new inputs/outputs 30:45 Creating a ‘Get field value’ custom configuration 37:14 Adding the Get field value step 41:06 More tips and best practices 42:10 Q & A 45:15 Announcements 48:13 More Q & A Links Platform Academy Series Community Live Stream: Document IDs Developer Links About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

On this episode, join Chuck as he explores a commonly overlooked method for retrieving data on reference fields that can save you loads of time! Topics 00:00 Start (w/audio probs) 03:11 Audio problems resolved - introduction 04:11 Use case scenario 06:00 Dot-walk example to get one field value 09:10 Getting a reference record manually 11:46 getRefRecord docs 13:32 Using getRefRecord in a script 15:05 Protecting against empty reference values 20:36 Summary & announcements Links Blog: TechNow June 29, 2021 - ServiceNow DevOps Register: TechNow June 29, 2021 - ServiceNow DevOps Break Point Podcast About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

On this episode, join Brad and Chuck as they demonstrate how easy it is to create reusable blocks of logic with Flow Designer actions. Topics 00:00 Start 01:49 Welcome and introductions 03:54 Objective 05:38 Creating a scope and new action 19:25 Fixing a bug 22:23 Categories 23:23 Adding the action to a subflow 28:15 Calling the subflow in a UI action 30:48 Discussion and attempt to update in the subflow and data type sidebar 37:32 Organizing multiple actions in your spoke 40:57 Looking at an action example details 44:56 Spoke naming in lists 45:50 Summary and announcements Links TechNow Ep 87 - DevOps in ServiceNow Apps Break Point Podcast GitHub: Chuck’s Basic Flow Designer Actions About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

On this episode, join Brad and Chuck as they build a front-end for a Notes app using out-of-the-box functionality in UI Builder. They’ll attempt to replicate the functionality from the Creating Custom Widgets Service Portal training on the developer site. Topics 00:00 Start 02:13 Intros and announcements 04:12 Topic overview 06:42 Screenshare start - laying out the components 15:24 Client state parameters 16:48 Getting data from the server 19:42 Clicking a row 22:05 More client state parameters 24:54 Sidebar - Javascript double-bars 27:16 Updating the record 28:00 Adding a refresh list client script 29:21 Adding an Update button 35:00 Adding a New button 40:56 Debugging 43:42 Getting a default note 51:42 Sidebar - Helpers 53:23 Summary and Signoff Links Component docs UI Builder Bytes About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

On this episode, join Brad and Chuck as they discover the low-code capabilities of Flow Designer. Watch and explore some examples how you can use light scripting in Flow Designer actions to get the results you need. Topics 00:00 Start 01:40 Welcome and introductions 03:40 Topic/problem introduction 06:05 Screenshare and app overview 08:02 Calculating the line item amount with a new flow 12:54 Scripting on a field value 16:28 Making fields read-only 20:28 Creating a custom action 29:48 Implementing the custom action 34:49 Q & A 37:35 Code snippet 39:10 Recap 40:20 Announcements 42:27 Send off Links Docs: Execution order of scripts and engines (Q) About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

2 minute read

On this episode, join Andrew, Brad, and Chuck as they take a look at how to manage your development on the Now Platform and deploy code changes. Part 2 will explore source control and the application repository capabilities and when and how to leverage them. Topics 00:00 Video start 01:38 Welcome, introductions, and announcements 07:03 Screenshare started and topic introduced 08:22 Importing an app from source control 11:00 Getting an app into source control 11:35 Branches and stashes 24:21 Creating a new app and linking to source control 29:40 Introducing the application repository 37:53 Reviewing the upgrade history 39:45 Exploring protection policies 42:42 Recommendations on source control vs app repo use 46:34 Exploring the CI/CD APIs 55:00 Extra special tip to avoid issues with cloning 57:30 Summary Links TechNow 86: Debugging your ServiceNow Code Docs: Source control integration (Q) Docs: ServiceNow application repository (Q) Developer Blog Creator Toolbox - Managing Dev on ServiceNow Part 1 About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

On this episode, join Andrew, Brad, and Chuck as they take a look at how to manage your development on the Now Platform and deploy code changes. Part 1 will focus on the older methods of using Update Sets. Part 2 will explore how to raise the maturity level with source control and the application repository. Topics 00:00 Start 01:36 Welcome, introductions, announcements 05:30 Topic introduction - update sets 08:47 Screen share started 09:44 Example stories and releases 11:08 Basic update set operations 15:07 Managing update sets 18:57 Introducing batching 22:20 What batching looks like in practice 32:08 Fixing bugs with update sets 35:40 Batching in test for release to prod 40:55 Bonus: Cloning and update sets 48:15 Q & A Links Docs: System update sets (Q) Docs: Update set batching (Q) Docs: System clone (Q) Blog: Update Set Development Management Blog: Managing Update Sets About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.

Chuck Tomasi

1 minute read

On this episode, join Chuck Tomasi and Brad Tilton as they explore the reporting calculation feature introduced in Quebec to help reduce the need to create specific fields and scripted logic. Join us Tuesday April 13 8AM PT. Topics 00:00 Start 01:20 Introductions 02:32 Topic introductions 05:15 Screenshare and requirements 06:13 Create a new pledge report 06:55 Introducing Configure Function Field 12:55 Creating a second function 14:33 Deactivating function fields and caution 18:59 Creating another function field on another report 24:08 Attempting multiple operations & dot-walking 32:05 Reviewing other functions 33:13 Required roles 33:55 Another look at true/false 36:43 Wrap up Links Docs: Report on function fields (Q) About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program.