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Reports allow users to:

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View and analyze ServiceNow data prepared on an ad-hoc basis

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Reports can be run:

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manually or scheduled to run automatically

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Where would you navigate in the platform to learn about Reports?

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All > Reports > Getting Started

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How many types of reports does the base instance come with?

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Over 25 including Pareto, Donut, Heatmap, Speedometer, Dial, Single Score, Pie, Semi Donut, Bubble, Multi-Level PivotTable, Line, Column, Area, Spline, Bar, Histogram, Horizontal Bar, List, Funnel, Calendar, Pyramid, Box, Trend, Control, Trendbox, Map, PivotTable and Text Analytics.

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How to access the Report Designer?

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All > Reports > View / Run

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What facilitates the Report Designer?

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The Report Designer allows users to easily create reports by following guided flows to configure, preview, edit and share reports.

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What are the 4 sections of an Report Designer?

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  1. Data
  2. Type
  3. Configure
  4. Style
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What tables are restricted from the reporting modules?

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System tables such as: syslog, syslog_transaction, sys_attachment and sys_email.

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Everytime you make an adjustment to your report remember to click:

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Run

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Update (in Reporting) means:

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Overwrite report and return to the report list

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Insert (in Reporting) means:

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Save a duplicate copy and return to the report list

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Insert and Stay (in Reporting) means:

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Save a duplicate copy of the report, remaining on the report

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Save as report source:

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Allows to create a pre-defined data set that can be used for created reports (need a role)

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How to make a report visible to a particular group or user?

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Use the Share option to select Groups and/or users

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Steps to publishing a report:

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  1. Click Share icon and choose Publish
  2. Copy report link to copy URL
  3. Open URL in a browser
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What needs to be enabled to publish reports?

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System property glide.report.published_reports.enabled

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How can you share reports?

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  1. Share to users/groups
  2. Schedule to run and be emailed as an attachment automatically
  3. Add to Dashboard
  4. Export to PDF
  5. Publish
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How can you report on Catalog Items?

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  1. Filter based on Variables
  2. Report based on Variables (configure section)
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Tags provide:

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An easy way to categorize, flag and locate records

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How can tags be created?

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From a list or for view against any record

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How in the List view can you create Tags?

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Righ-click Record Context Menu > Assign Tag

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How can you assign a tag in a form view?

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Click More Options > Add Tag

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What are the 3 ways to add tags?

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  1. List view > right-click > Assign Tag
  2. Form view > More Options > Assign Tag
  3. Add Tag column to list view and add a tag directly into the record
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How to access personal tags most easily?

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  1. My Tags module
  2. My Tagged Documents
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What role do you need to have to set tags as Viewable to Everyone?
admin or tags_admin
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What is the difference between Reports and Performance Analytics?
Reports capture the current state of platform data, Performance Analytics provides information about performance over time (iteratively)
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Performance Analytics (PA) allows users to:
Create Dashboard with widgets to visualize data over time to identify areas for improvement
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How is Performance Analytics architectured?
Widget, Tables, Data Collector and Dashboard
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What can PA do?
- Track performance against Targets - Alert when Threshold are met - Forecast future performance - Compare performance at different points in time
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Dashboard enables:
To display multiple Performance Analytics, reports, and widgets on a single screen
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Dashboards can be:
- responsive, and - nonresponsive
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Use Dashboards to:
Create a story with data
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Templates allow:
Form fields to be populated automatically simplifying the process of generating new records.
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Quick messages allow:
To create redefined content to add into the email client so your users can compose emails consistently and efficiently
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Notifications can:
- Be triggered by events on the platform, - and require no scripting knowledge.
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A notification can alert users through the following methods:
- Email - SMS - Meeting Invitation
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Notifications are received by:
1. Configured users 2. Voluntary recipients who subscribed
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To view sent notifications from your instance navigate to:
All> System Mailboxes > Outbound > Outbox
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Email layouts:
Are created to specify the HTML content you want to appear in the body of one or more email templates
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How to use Email Layouts and Templates with Notifications?
1. Create Email Layout (banner/header/footer) 2. Apply Layout to Email Template (content) 3. Apply Template to Notification (what it will contain)
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What you need to specify to create a Notification?
1. When to send 2. Who will receive 3. What it will contain
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When to send dropdown options are:
- record inserted or upated, - event is fired - Triggered - Script
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To how many users should you consider limiting your recipients list?
1000 users
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If a notifications has more than 100 intended recipients:
The system creates multiple messages to up to 100 recipients
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What will be used from an Email Template?
- Subject and message unless overwritten
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Dot-walking:
Gathers information from a series of tables through reference fields
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Dot-walking can be used:
Across the Platform
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Watermarks are:
By default system-generated watermark labels at the bottom of each notification email to allow matching incoming email to existing records
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If watermarks are omitted from email notifications,
Inbound Actions might not work properly.
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A watermark includes:
a random 20-character string after "Ref" that makes it unique and can be customized.
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What does a watermark consist of?
1. Customizable prefix 2. Auto-numbered identifier 3. An underscore character followed by a random 20 character string
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Subscriptions:
Allow users to be informed of various activity occuring in the platform, whether it directly related to them or not
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Which fields can be used to ensure certain notifications cannot be unsubscribed?
- Force Delivery - Mandatory
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Annotations:
Appear on various forms and contain useful information; can we toggled off in a form via More Options
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What does the placeholder ${URI_REF} do in a notification?
Displays value of the record as link text and renders as a direct link to the incident record.
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Sidebar allows:
Users to have a real-time collaboration with others based around a workspace task-based or interaction-based record
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How many discussions can be created via Sidebar per record?
Only one discussion per record
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What can you do with the Sidebar:
1. Sidebar discussions 2. Search within discussions 3. Pin 4. All, Unread, Favorites (select preferred options to view discussions)
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Docked Chat Windows (for Fulfillers) can be accessed:
Fulfillers can access multiple Sidebar discussions at the same time using the docked windows feature.
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When a Sidebar discussion is created,
the record card is automatically added at the start of the chat window.
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Docked chat windows include these features:
1. Favorites 2. Information 3. Collapse 4. Close
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Activity Stream in Sidebar
The sidebar is integrated with activity stream - when you start a Sidebar discussion, a tile corresponding to the discussion is automatically added to the activity stream.
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Sidebar and discussions are available only with:
Next Experience UI
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Integration Hub:
Offers several pre-built sets of integration actions to interact with common 3rd party applications. These sets of actions are referred as spokes.
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Automation Center application:
Allows to discover, prioritize and manager automation requests in your instance, all in one place.
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Predictive Intelligence:
Uses machine-learning algorithms to set field values during record creation. You need admin or ml_admin role to initiate set up.
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What should you consider when exporting a report to PDF?
1. Information may be obsolete 2. Access control is not enforced on exported data
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What are the 4 tabs used to create a report in Report Designer?
Data, Type, Configure, Style
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What can trigger a notification?
- Record inserted or updated - Event is fired - A script
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Name three ways of sharing a report with other people in the organization?
1. Schedule email 2. Export to PDF 3. Publish
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Which 3 tabs are used to configure a notification?
1. When to send? 2. Who will receive? 3. What it will contain?
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Where can users define notification channels and manage subscriptions?
all > Self-Service> My Notification Preferences OR User Profile Menu> Preferences > Notifications > Core UI