Enable Productivity Flashcards
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Reports allow users to:
View and analyze ServiceNow data prepared on an ad-hoc basis
Reports can be run:
manually or scheduled to run automatically
Where would you navigate in the platform to learn about Reports?
All > Reports > Getting Started
How many types of reports does the base instance come with?
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.
How to access the Report Designer?
All > Reports > View / Run
What facilitates the Report Designer?
The Report Designer allows users to easily create reports by following guided flows to configure, preview, edit and share reports.
What are the 4 sections of an Report Designer?
- Data
- Type
- Configure
- Style
What tables are restricted from the reporting modules?
System tables such as: syslog, syslog_transaction, sys_attachment and sys_email.
Everytime you make an adjustment to your report remember to click:
Run
Update (in Reporting) means:
Overwrite report and return to the report list
Insert (in Reporting) means:
Save a duplicate copy and return to the report list
Insert and Stay (in Reporting) means:
Save a duplicate copy of the report, remaining on the report
Save as report source:
Allows to create a pre-defined data set that can be used for created reports (need a role)
How to make a report visible to a particular group or user?
Use the Share option to select Groups and/or users
Steps to publishing a report:
- Click Share icon and choose Publish
- Copy report link to copy URL
- Open URL in a browser
What needs to be enabled to publish reports?
System property glide.report.published_reports.enabled
How can you share reports?
- Share to users/groups
- Schedule to run and be emailed as an attachment automatically
- Add to Dashboard
- Export to PDF
- Publish
How can you report on Catalog Items?
- Filter based on Variables
- Report based on Variables (configure section)
Tags provide:
An easy way to categorize, flag and locate records
How can tags be created?
From a list or for view against any record
How in the List view can you create Tags?
Righ-click Record Context Menu > Assign Tag
How can you assign a tag in a form view?
Click More Options > Add Tag
What are the 3 ways to add tags?
- List view > right-click > Assign Tag
- Form view > More Options > Assign Tag
- Add Tag column to list view and add a tag directly into the record
How to access personal tags most easily?
- My Tags module
- My Tagged Documents