Undocumented Scripts

This page is to document scripts that are undocumented in ServiceNow.

• Server-Side APIs (gathered using
  Xplore
  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/248771

  • GlideappCatalogItem

  • GlideappQuestion -- Memory Leak issues
    (PRB697208)

  • GlideappVariablePoolQuestionSet

    • generally used to print out variables and answers in email. I recommend: /printing-out-variables/
    • https://community.servicenow.com/thread/284468 -- not working in scoped application
    • 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
    • exclusiveWithSpin
    • get()
    • getExclusiveWithSpin()
    • getNonExclusive()
    • getWithSpin()
    • invalidate()
    • nonExclusive
    • withSpin

• Client-Side APIs

  • UINotification aka NotificationMessage

  • Event

  • service.dateUtils.js

    • getDateFromFormat

  • g_form (desktop)

  • g_form (mobile/service portal)

    • setVariablesReadOnly

  • Client-Side Properties

    • 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