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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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14
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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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16
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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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18
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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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19
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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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21
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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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22
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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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23
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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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24
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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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25
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What role do you need to have to set tags as Viewable to Everyone?

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admin or tags_admin

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26
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What is the difference between Reports and Performance Analytics?

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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:

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Create Dashboard with widgets to visualize data over time to identify areas for improvement

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28
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How is Performance Analytics architectured?

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Widget, Tables, Data Collector and Dashboard

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What can PA do?

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  • Track performance against Targets
  • Alert when Threshold are met
  • Forecast future performance
  • Compare performance at different points in time
30
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Dashboard enables:

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To display multiple Performance Analytics, reports, and widgets on a single screen

31
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Dashboards can be:

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  • responsive, and
  • nonresponsive
32
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Use Dashboards to:

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Create a story with data

33
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Templates allow:

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Form fields to be populated automatically simplifying the process of generating new records.

34
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Quick messages allow:

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To create redefined content to add into the email client so your users can compose emails consistently and efficiently

35
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Notifications can:

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  • Be triggered by events on the platform,
  • and require no scripting knowledge.
36
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A notification can alert users through the following methods:

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  • Email
  • SMS
  • Meeting Invitation
37
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Notifications are received by:

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  1. Configured users
  2. Voluntary recipients who subscribed
38
Q

To view sent notifications from your instance navigate to:

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All> System Mailboxes > Outbound > Outbox

39
Q

Email layouts:

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Are created to specify the HTML content you want to appear in the body of one or more email templates

40
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How to use Email Layouts and Templates with Notifications?

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  1. Create Email Layout (banner/header/footer)
  2. Apply Layout to Email Template (content)
  3. Apply Template to Notification (what it will contain)
41
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What you need to specify to create a Notification?

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  1. When to send
  2. Who will receive
  3. What it will contain
42
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When to send dropdown options are:

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  • record inserted or upated,
  • event is fired
  • Triggered
  • Script
43
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To how many users should you consider limiting your recipients list?

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1000 users

44
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If a notifications has more than 100 intended recipients:

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The system creates multiple messages to up to 100 recipients

45
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What will be used from an Email Template?

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  • Subject and message unless overwritten
46
Q

Dot-walking:

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Gathers information from a series of tables through reference fields

47
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Dot-walking can be used:

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Across the Platform

48
Q

Watermarks are:

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By default system-generated watermark labels at the bottom of each notification email to allow matching incoming email to existing records

49
Q

If watermarks are omitted from email notifications,

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Inbound Actions might not work properly.

50
Q

A watermark includes:

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a random 20-character string after “Ref” that makes it unique and can be customized.

51
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What does a watermark consist of?

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  1. Customizable prefix
  2. Auto-numbered identifier
  3. An underscore character followed by a random 20 character string
52
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Subscriptions:

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Allow users to be informed of various activity occuring in the platform, whether it directly related to them or not

53
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Which fields can be used to ensure certain notifications cannot be unsubscribed?

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  • Force Delivery
  • Mandatory
54
Q

Annotations:

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Appear on various forms and contain useful information; can we toggled off in a form via More Options

55
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What does the placeholder ${URI_REF} do in a notification?

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Displays value of the record as link text and renders as a direct link to the incident record.

56
Q

Sidebar allows:

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Users to have a real-time collaboration with others based around a workspace task-based or interaction-based record

57
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How many discussions can be created via Sidebar per record?

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Only one discussion per record

58
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What can you do with the Sidebar:

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  1. Sidebar discussions
  2. Search within discussions
  3. Pin
  4. All, Unread, Favorites (select preferred options to view discussions)
59
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Docked Chat Windows (for Fulfillers) can be accessed:

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Fulfillers can access multiple Sidebar discussions at the same time using the docked windows feature.

60
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When a Sidebar discussion is created,

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the record card is automatically added at the start of the chat window.

61
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Docked chat windows include these features:

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  1. Favorites
  2. Information
  3. Collapse
  4. Close
62
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Activity Stream in Sidebar

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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.

63
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Sidebar and discussions are available only with:

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Next Experience UI

64
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Integration Hub:

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Offers several pre-built sets of integration actions to interact with common 3rd party applications. These sets of actions are referred as spokes.

65
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Automation Center application:

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Allows to discover, prioritize and manager automation requests in your instance, all in one place.

66
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Predictive Intelligence:

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Uses machine-learning algorithms to set field values during record creation. You need admin or ml_admin role to initiate set up.

67
Q

What should you consider when exporting a report to PDF?

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  1. Information may be obsolete
  2. Access control is not enforced on exported data
68
Q

What are the 4 tabs used to create a report in Report Designer?

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Data, Type, Configure, Style

69
Q

What can trigger a notification?

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  • Record inserted or updated
  • Event is fired
  • A script
70
Q

Name three ways of sharing a report with other people in the organization?

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  1. Schedule email
  2. Export to PDF
  3. Publish
71
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Which 3 tabs are used to configure a notification?

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  1. When to send?
  2. Who will receive?
  3. What it will contain?
72
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Where can users define notification channels and manage subscriptions?

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all > Self-Service> My Notification Preferences OR User Profile Menu> Preferences > Notifications > Core UI