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Undocumented Scripts- # Undocumented Scripts

October 1, 2017 [servicenow](/tags/servicenow/)

  Enable AI AnimationThis page is to document scripts that are undocumented in ServiceNow.

Server-Side APIs (gathered using
[Xplore](https://developer.servicenow.com/connect.do#!/share/contents/9650888_xplore_developer_toolkit?v=4.9&t=PRODUCT_DETAILS)
manually and via posts on community)

Glide

get()
- checkInitiated()

- GlideAbstractBucketCollector – Expects Object

- GlideSysAttachmentInputStream

- GlideChecksum

calculateMD5CheckSum.

- GlideSecurityManager

setUser

- GlideTableCreator

[https://community.servicenow.com/thread/247897](https://community.servicenow.com/thread/247897)
- [https://community.servicenow.com/thread/248771](https://community.servicenow.com/thread/248771)

- GlideappCatalogItem

- GlideappQuestion – [Memory Leak issues
(PRB697208)](https://hi.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0596785)

- GlideappVariablePoolQuestionSet

generally used to print out variables and answers in email. I recommend: /printing-out-variables/
- [https://community.servicenow.com/thread/284468](https://community.servicenow.com/thread/284468) – not working in scoped application
- [https://community.servicenow.com/thread/221479](https://community.servicenow.com/thread/221479) – controlling what variables show up

- GlideZipOutputStream aka Packages.java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream

- GlideZipEntry aka Packages.java.util.zip.ZipEntry

- GlideRecord.applyEncodedQuery – found in activity definitions

This applies an encoded query to a record and sets it’s values.

- task.wf_activity

Note: the wf_activity field is disabled in the dictionary, so is not visible in the form or list views. But it’s still valid to use in a script.
- Clearing this out on tasks when “restarting” workflow will reuse tasks, if you clear this out, it will make new.
- I had a ask where a customer wanted a “Revert to New” UI Action inside a Change record but wanted to keep the history of Closed Incomplete Change Tasks to show that a change failed and had to be restarted

Every time I’d restart the workflow it would re-use the last made change tasks and overwrite information that we wanted to keep for history’s sake. – Lee Hollister

- GlideTemplate

- GlideTemplate.get

- GlideMutex

[https://community.servicenow.com/message/953897](https://community.servicenow.com/message/953897)
- exclusiveWithSpin
- get()
- getExclusiveWithSpin()
- getNonExclusive()
- getWithSpin()
- invalidate()
- nonExclusive
- withSpin

- Client-Side APIs

[UINotification aka NotificationMessage](https://hi.service-now.com/scripts/classes/doctype/NotificationMessage.js)

- [Event](https://hi.service-now.com/scripts/consts/GlideEvent.js)

- [service.dateUtils.js](https://hi.service-now.com/scripts/sn/common/util/service.dateUtils.js)

getDateFromFormat

- [g_form (desktop)](https://hi.service-now.com/scripts/doctype/GlideForm14.js)

- [g_form (mobile/service portal)](https://hi.service-now.com/scripts/scoped_object_generators.js)

setVariablesReadOnly

- Client-Side Properties

[calendar.js](https://hi.service-now.com/scripts/calendar.js)

g_user_date_format
- g_user_date_time_format

- REST APIS

Search Endpoint:
`/now/globalsearch/search?sysparm_search=TERMGOESHERE&sysparm_groups=SYSIDOFSEARCHGROUP`
Header: `header: application/json`

Inspiration/Resources; [Undocumented Scripts by SN Pro Tips](https://snprotips.com/undocumented-servicenow-apis/)

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