Contribute

First of all, thanks for thinking of contributing to this project. You’re Awesome! 😍

We welcome contributions to DevToolbox by everyone.

How to report a problem

Please search issue tracker before creating a new issue (problem or an improvement request). Feel Free to add issues related to the project.

If you feel that you can fix or implement it yourself, please read a few paragraphs below to learn how to submit your changes.

Submitting Changes

• Comment on the issue so others know you are working on the issue.
• Fork the project
• Install your fork on your Personal Developer Instance (PDI) with credientials (so you have write access)
• Create Branch something-descriptive
• Install necessary plugins for the test (e.g. CSM tests would require CSM to be installed)
• Ensure you are in the DevToolbox scope
• Create the test for this issue
• Associate the test to the logical test suite
• Test your test in your PDI
• Commit your changes
• Create a Pull Request

What is this?

This is a scoped app in ServiceNow to give administrators and Developers a some utililities that I found useful based on Jim Coyne’s Developer Toolbox.

Why?

• Easy install, Easy uninstall
• Why not?

What are the features?

Open Source Activity Formatter

If you want a better level of programmable control of the activity formatter in UI16.

Variable Parser

This is to give admins/developers a way to not depend on GlideappVariablePoolQuestionSet.

It’s really just a script include to do what I did way, way back when.

This is contained within the variableHelper Script include and here’s a sample of what it does;

// Run this
var vh = new x_8821_dev_toolbox.variableHelper();

var current = new GlideRecord('change_request');
current.get('c286d61347c12200e0ef563dbb9a71df');
var vars = vh.getVariables(current);
var printable = JSON.stringify(vars, '', ' ');
gs.info(printable);

var current = new GlideRecord('sc_req_item');
//current.get('257c82740f4b1300fc69cdbce1050ea2');
current.setLimit(1);
current.orderByDesc('sys_created_on');
current.query();
if (current.next()) {
    var vars = vh.getVariables(current);
    var printable = JSON.stringify(vars, '', ' ');
    gs.info(printable);
}

x_8821_dev_toolbox: [
 {
  "label": "Server to reboot",
  "value": "AS400",
  "order": "100"
 },
 {
  "label": "Desired date and time of reboot",
  "value": "2016-08-10 21:42:16",
  "order": "200"
 },
 {
  "label": "Reason for reboot",
  "value": "broken",
  "order": "400"
 }
]
x_8821_dev_toolbox: [
 {
  "label": "Item name",
  "value": "Make a new Tweet!  Yea this is silly",
  "order": "1"
 },
 {
  "label": "What group owns this item?",
  "value": "US Presidents Group 1",
  "order": "3"
 },
 {
  "label": "Search terms",
  "value": "twitter, tweet, tweeting, social",
  "order": "4"
 },
 {
  "label": "What process does this follow?",
  "value": "One approval and one task",
  "order": "12"
 },
 {
  "label": "Task 1 Group",
  "value": "Service Desk",
  "order": "14"
 },
 {
  "label": "Task 1 Short Description",
  "value": "Service Desk gets all the ... hard work",
  "order": "15"
 },
 {
  "label": "Task 1 Description",
  "value": "Tweet this message out at this time :(",
  "order": "16"
 },
 {
  "label": "Approval 1 Group",
  "value": "Change Management",
  "order": "22"
 },
 {
  "208934368172635": [
   {
    "label": "Question",
    "value": "What would you like to tweet?",
    "order": "5"
   },
   {
    "label": "Type",
    "value": "6",
    "order": "6"
   },
   {
    "label": "Default Value",
    "value": "",
    "order": "7"
   },
   {
    "label": "Table",
    "value": "",
    "order": "8"
   },
   {
    "label": "Reference Qualifer",
    "value": "",
    "order": "9"
   },
   {
    "label": "Choices",
    "value": "",
    "order": "10"
   }
  ],
  "208934372249576": [
   {
    "label": "Question",
    "value": "When would you like it tweeted?",
    "order": "5"
   },
   {
    "label": "Type",
    "value": "10",
    "order": "6"
   },
   {
    "label": "Default Value",
    "value": "",
    "order": "7"
   },
   {
    "label": "Table",
    "value": "",
    "order": "8"
   },
   {
    "label": "Reference Qualifer",
    "value": "",
    "order": "9"
   },
   {
    "label": "Choices",
    "value": "",
    "order": "10"
   }
  ],
  "208934375008859": [
   {
    "label": "Question",
    "value": "How much did you enjoy this item?",
    "order": "5"
   },
   {
    "label": "Type",
    "value": "5",
    "order": "6"
   },
   {
    "label": "Default Value",
    "value": "",
    "order": "7"
   },
   {
    "label": "Table",
    "value": "",
    "order": "8"
   },
   {
    "label": "Reference Qualifer",
    "value": "",
    "order": "9"
   },
   {
    "label": "Choices",
    "value": "Meh, It is okay, It is great, I am writing about it in my family tree, It is terrible, It is mediocre",
    "order": "10"
   }
  ]
 }
]

Item maker

Utility UI Actions and Context Menus;

Context Menus

UI Actions

• “Replace Text” requires a change on
  /sys_db_object_list.do?sysparm_query=nameINsys_journal_field%2Csys_audit%2Csys_history_set
  To allow for create, update, read and deletes.

Install

You only need to take two steps to install this.

1. In Studio, import application from Github.
   https://github.com/jacebenson/devtoolbox.git

Using this requires setting the properties of the application. This application should be not noticable unless you “opt-in” on the properties.

The best way to see what properties exist is just to look in Studio at the System Properties.