Category: WNTD
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Admin Analytics – Custom monitoring/report tool to make life easier
Admins are often tasked with monitoring certain things such as health of the platform, licenses, integrations, ad-hoc stuff, etc. As a result, you might end up with dozens of bookmarks, favorites, dashboards, reports, etc. Reports, performance analytics, dashboards, and favorites work OK, but have several downsides that I won’t list out. I built this very…
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UI Action to Automatically Import XML into Other Instances
Rather than manually exporting and importing XMLs, I created this UI action as a proof of concept to make it easier to automate this. This is just a rough draft and can be tweaked as needed. It involves creating a scripted rest api, auth profile, and UI action. Script REST API * make sure to…
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Report on Custom Tables – Get Table Name, Record Count, Date of Latest Record
Creative way to generate a csv/excel report for all custom tables (ua_custom_table_inventory). This can be very useful to help identify things that can be cleaned up, such as unused custom tables. For this solution, I kept it simple and created a fix script to generate a csv file, but obviously there are other ways to…
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Find Customized Records for Any Table
Nice little script to find all customized records for any table. Create a Script Include – Name: getAllCustomRecords Client Callable: True (*remember to secure your client callable script includes with an ACL*) Script: Now go to any table you want to query for customizations, such as business rules, script includes, client scripts, etc. Add this…
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Report to view Record Count for all tables
To view your database footprint in GBs, you can either use Instance Observer or submit a “Database Footprint” request through the Now Support Portal (aka the HI portal). These reports will tell you the the size of the tables in GB. However, as of the time of this article, these reports do not tell you…
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NBA Scoreboard – Built on ServiceNow
Will post the code here eventually. But combining two of my favorite things – ServiceNow and NBA. Built a portal page to display NBA scores real time and also an ESPN like bottom line news ticker. How this was done: Custom Table to store the scores. Flow designer/integration hub to import the score via REST…
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Custom Fonts for Next Experience Theme
Cool way to add a custom font to your next experience theme. And that it! For this example, I downloaded a “Game Boy” font from the web and used this. The results are pretty cool!
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Add Color Picker to field – UI Macro
Just want to start off by saying that UI Macros do not work in Workspaces, so proceed with caution. Anyhow, I’ve been searching the community for a color picker UI Macro and couldn’t find anything so I created my own. This can be added to any string field and will populate the field based on…
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Script to automatically create UX Banner Announcement
If you’re not familiar with Next Experience Banner Annoucements, I highly suggest checking out the docs. Basically, it’s an easy way to display a banner for logged in users. I like to use this for our subprod environments, so users/admins/developers can easily distinguish between dev and prod. To configure these annoucenments automatically after a clone…
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Create a Calendar Using UI Builder
In this guide, we will walk through the process of creating a calendar using UI Builder. Setup Start by adding a new “Calendar Report” component to the page. Configure the report with the following settings This will create the basic report, however, none of the records will be clickable. Here are the steps to configure…