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Bookmark Administration

The ServiceNow bookmark functionality allows users to keep track of commonly used lists and important records.

Bookmarks are often maintenance-free, however there are a couple improvements that can help add additional value to bookmarks.

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Find Groups without Group Members

Companies can get quite ambitious creating groups.  As time progresses however, some groups become less important and group members leave the company.  Eventually you end up with groups with no members in the group.  

If you have many groups, finding those "empty" groups is a process.  This report helps you find those groups.

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ServiceNow Global Text Search

Global text search is the search box in the top right corner of most ServiceNow instances.

Global Text Search uses text indexes to search multiple ServiceNow tables in a single search.  This global search is a great feature and you can configure it for even more additional functionality.

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Managing Child Tasks in ServiceNow

If you close a parent record in ServiceNow, what is done with the child tasks?  There are multiple ways to deal with these child tasks in ServiceNow.  Depending on your business requirements, you can choose one of these methods to meet your needs.

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Extend an existing table

If you created a new table, added a lot fields, and then realized it wasn't extended off a table you need like the task or cmdb_ci table, it can be a big process to delete the table and start over.

Here is a script to extend an existing table. 

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