Tim Deniston

UI Policies and the Negative Case

by Tim Deniston
A UI Policy is one of the easiest to build and understand artifacts in the ServiceNow universe. At its most basic level, it takes no condition and does up to three actions: makes a field shown or hidden, editable or read-only, and/or mandatory or optional. That’s it! This is obviously an over-simplified scenario. Let’s take ... Read More

Organizing UI16 and Next UI Favorites

by Tim Deniston
Credit for this really needs to go to one of my peers. I spoke confidently via Teams in a group chat that there was no way to group favorites in UI16 and Next UI’s application navigator, but I was kindly corrected! I am terrible about keeping a tidy list of favorites in any instance I ... Read More

Working with Workday SOAP APIs

by Tim Deniston
As a consultant who spends a significant amount of time working on HRSD projects, I often find myself face-to-face with a Workday integration. I cut my teeth with the old HR Integrations application, which included a Workday integration (among others). ServiceNow has since released a new version of the Workday integration that might be easier/better/faster/whatever, ... Read More

Custom Fields in HR Case

by Tim Deniston
There’s really nothing quite like HR Case Management. It’s kinda like Incident, but not really. It’s kinda like service catalog, but not really. Thanks to HR Service, we have many different types of tasks being handled in small set of tables within the HR scope. This works pretty well, but can become complicated when you ... Read More

CatalogUtil – A GlideAjax Multi-tool

by Tim Deniston
Customers of mine who use the service catalog tend to really use the service catalog. Many of them have big ambitions when it comes to what their catalog items, order guides, and record producers can do. This often results in leveraging GlideAjax in catalog client script, which means writing a corresponding script include to do ... Read More