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For ServiceNow beginners:

It's very important to understand how c.data, data, input, and other objects are related to each other, its the DNA of Service Portals. If you are interested in learning the basic flow of a widget in Service Portals, please check out the below Miro board. Click the below link to open the Miro Boar in a new Tab.

Inner workings of a Service Portal Widget

I tried to make it as simple as possible with a Diagram, explanation, and a simple example. The diagram focuses on explaining how HTML, Client Script, Server Script communicate internally.

Thank you,

Aman Gurram

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