Undocumented Scripts

A simple place I can toss stuff that isn't documented

A simple place I can toss stuff that isn't documented

I am starting to make a page I can easily reference with things that ServiceNow just omits about their code.

  • 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 is still valid to use in a script.
      • https://community.servicenow.com/thread/264780#1153792
      • https://community.servicenow.com/thread/192359
      • Clearing this out on tasks when "restarting" workflow will reuse tasks, if you clear this out, it will make new.
      • I had a requirement 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 previously 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
  • 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