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Custom PDF Files in ServiceNow through PDFCrowd
PDFCrowd is a cloud-based PDF generation utility that leverages a basic web service API to receive HTML data and produce a PDF rendering of the page. PDFCrowd gives you a handful of free credits to...
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Quick tip for ignoring namespaces with XPath
I often have to parse an XML Document to pull out element text when doing an integration with a third party system. I have used XPATH for these types of queries for years, but have always cringed when...
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Integration Best Practices – Application Menus
A few months ago I worked with my good friend, David Gatley, in San Diego to come up with a series of integration best practice videos. This first video discusses the importance of designing an...
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Integration Best Practices – Import Sets
David Gatley and I continue with our series of integration best practice videos with session two: Import Sets. This second video discusses the importance of creating import sets to pull data from...
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Integration Best Practices – Inbound Web Services
David Gatley and I continue with our series of integration best practice videos with session three: Inbound Web Services. Every table in ServiceNow has both SOAP and REST based web service access. You...
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Integration Best Practices – Outbound Web Services
The illustrious David Gatley and I continue with our series of integration best practice videos with session four: Outbound Web Services. This video gives a quick introduction to the outbound SOAP and...
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ServiceNow Integrations Overview Video
This video explains the generally available integration interfaces built into the ServiceNow platform. It covers Direct Table access through SOAP and REST based web services. It also mentions email...
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Easy Base64 Encoding in ServiceNow
Base 64 encoding is a method used to convert binary data into ASCII strings. This is especially helpful if you want to convert a file, picture, or other object into a string in order to distribute...
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Flexible Styling with ServiceNow UI Pages and Macros
No, I am not a UI Master, nor am I a genius at style. I do my best to at least make interfaces functional, and that is about it. So, for me providing styling guidance is a bit of a joke, but here is...
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How to use SFTP tools with EC2 images
I always shuddered when I had to do some SFTP or SSH work with a linux box hosted on Amazon EC2. Instead of giving me the familiar username/password mechanism for authentication, they have required...
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Adding AngularJS to your ServiceNow instance
Loading the AngularJS library on a ServiceNow instance may appear to be impossible at first, but with the following handy trick, you have can AngularJS capabilities within just a few short minutes....
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Using the SublimeEditor to write ServiceNow code
I was recently introduced to an awesome ServiceNow plug-in for the SublimeText editor. The plugin was developed by Paul Senatillaka and possibly others at Fruition Partners. The plugin allows you to...
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Angular in ServiceNow: Tutorial #1 – Model Basics
Sample Angular App using a basic Model I am hoping to find time to take a journey learning AngularJS as it pertains to the ServiceNow platform. As I do so, I hope to create a handful of tutorials or...
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Angular in ServiceNow: Tutorial #2 – The Controller
Sample AngularJS App in ServiceNow that demonstrates a Controller In this particular tutorial, we are going to cover AngularJS controllers and how you can set them up in ServiceNow. Please note, as a...
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Angular in ServiceNow: Tutorial #3 – REST Calls
Sample AngularJS App in ServiceNow that demonstrates the use of a REST based $http call In this particular tutorial, we are going to cover the AngularJS ability to make REST web service calls against a...
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Angular in ServiceNow: Tutorial #4 – Promises
Sample AngularJS App in ServiceNow that demonstrates the use of REST based calls with one that uses a Promise In this particular tutorial, we are going to build upon the use cases in our previous...
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Post a picture to an image field through REST
This blog post is dedicated to a brilliant young inventor who is looking to solve a existing problem by building a mobile app that integrates into a ServiceNow instance. The problem that he ran into...
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ServiceNow User Preferences – Server and Client Access
ServiceNow can serve up a user’s personal preferences either with server-side API access or client-side function calls. Get it your way. You may already be aware of this, but ServiceNow has the...
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Referencing Multiple Styles with ServiceNow UI pages
Easily handle all sorts of styles in your UI or CMS work in ServiceNow. A few months ago I posted an article about how to include ServiceNow stylesheet records in your UI page or UI macro (Flexible...
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Linking Several Javascript Libraries into ServiceNow UI pages
Several days ago I posted an article about how to include Multiple ServiceNow stylesheet records in your UI page or UI macro in a way that you could easily tell which stylesheets you were using and...
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