Andrew Barnes
Insipration So, you want to contribute something back to the community. You have come to the right place. Share is a great way to get handy utilities, inspiration, and help others. A little over a week ago I featured a the Add to Update Set Utility share item by Ben Hollifield. It is a very handy tool and has lots of features that I believe are not well known.
The ServiceNow Developer Program recently went on the road to visit London. NowForum: London edition featured one full day of content just for developers with 800 attendees. The second day which was for all things ServiceNow had 2,500 attendees. Dave Slusher, Chuck Tomasi, Jason Mckee, and Andrew Barnes were all teaching workshops on day 1 of the event. You are welcome to jump down to the event proper if you don’t want to read about my travels!
Share Spotlight Welcome to the second share spotlight! Every Friday we will be spotlighting a project from the Share site on the Developer Portal.
UI16 Developer Patch For the next installment, we are featuring a project called UI16 Developer Patch authored by friend of the Developer Program and London Meetup organizer James Neale. This project adds two Global UI Scripts to add some quality of life adjustments for ServiceNow Developers specifically.
Share Spotlight Welcome to the second share spotlight! Every Friday we will be spotlighting a project from the Share site on the Developer Portal.
Add to Update Set For the second installment, we are featuring a project called Add to Update Set Utility authored by friend of the Developer Program Ben Hollifield. This project adds a Global UI Action to place items into your current update set that might not normally be saved to an update set.
Release Process Properly managing your development work and how it is stored and released is often as important as the development work itself. None of us want to have the management of our update sets jeopardize successful releases. I will share some of the tips and methods for making the ServiceNow release process easier from my experience managing the release process at multiple companies.
Batching With the Jakarta release, and improvement to update set management was introduced.
Joining Developer Program Greetings this is Andrew Barnes!
The developer advocacy arm of the developer program has helped grow and empower the ServiceNow developer community. Dave Slusher and formerly Josh Nerius have done an amazing job with this program. The developer community would not be the same without them and their efforts.
A short while ago I joined ServiceNow and specifically the developer advocate team.
I have been developing on the ServiceNow platform since being inspired at Knowledge 14.
Developer Days From now until the end of the year ServiceNow and the developer program will be hosting events at several locations around the world. Dave Slusher and Andrew Barnes will be at several of these events. We hope you are able to attend and meet in person while learning more about ServiceNow!
The one day events are typically focused on the new developer. The 2nd of a two day event is targeted towards moderately experienced developers.
Reviewing Skipped Items The London release introduces a new tool for debugging upgrades and we will look at an overlooked but time-saving Jakarta release item as well.
As a customer and partner, I have done quite a few ServiceNow upgrades. Helping others in the community with their upgrades has been a long-running theme. There are some newer platform features which I think are worth sharing with the community. There are several reference documents for the full upgrade process here.
