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  ## [Service Catalog: Auto ordering variables](/blog/service-catalog-auto-ordering-variables/)

  September 7, 2018servicenow
  Today I learned a trick that would have saved me hours had I known about it years ago.

From time to time you find yourself working on a catalog item with ...

  

  
  ## [Difference between ${URI} and ${URI_REF}](/blog/difference-between-dollaruri-and-dollaruri_ref/)

  September 6, 2018email servicenow
  All this talk about notifications had me poking around and I learned about using ${URI_REF} instead of ${URI}. It's magical.

${URI_REF} creates a link to...

  

  
  ## [ServiceNow: How to harden your instance](/blog/servicenow-how-to-harden-your-instance/)

  September 5, 2018servicenow
  I had to prepare an instance for some penetration testing. Turns out this is pretty easy.

To start with you need to know what ServiceNow requires of you. ...

  

  
  ## [Service Portal: Validating Date Format](/blog/service-portal-validating-date-format/)

  August 16, 2018servicenow service-portal
  Someone had asked how to do some "How to verify a date format in service portal?"

This came up in a chat I was having this week.

To use the g_user_date...

  

  
  ## [Service Portal: Viewing what is loaded on the page](/blog/service-portal-viewing-what-is-loaded-on-the-page/)

  August 16, 2018servicenow service-portal
  This is blatantly taken from HI as this I think is useful enough to re-post nearly verbatim.

If you've ever needed to know which Client Scripts, UI Polici...

  

  
  ## [ServiceNow features I avoid, and you should too](/blog/servicenow-features-i-avoid-and-you-should-too/)

  August 15, 2018servicenow
  From time to time I get thinking about what I avoid in this system. Below are my notes.

## Controlling variables state with fields

For example, setting...

  

  
  ## [London Feature: Multi-Row Variable Sets](/blog/london-feature-multi-row-variable-sets/)

  August 1, 2018servicenow
  I had to try this out and since the docs doesn't show how it works here's screenshot and video.

!

It's pretty neat the content if you do a g_form.g...

  

  
  ## [Service Portal: Add to cart is a PITA](/blog/service-portal-add-to-cart-is-a-pita/)

  July 15, 2018servicenow service-portal
  So it seems the first thing a lot of places have to do when setting up
the service portal is to re-setup two-step-checkout.

I don't like looking it up. ...

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