I have often a problem analyzing unfamiliar implementation that I don't know, where a function call or a log trace is placed. Because there may be a "couple" of scripts in ServiceNow you can spend hours studying the source code. Unfortunately, there are no global search function for script code. I would like to share a background script allow you to get all possible scripts implemented in ServiceNow, custom as well, and than look for a {searchstring}.It is possible to extend the function with Regular Expression search to searchh more complicated search terms.

Global code search

// Please write here what are you looking for:var searchstring = 'test';(function(searchstring) { // just used for printing results later var log = new Array(); log.push('Search for character string ' + searchstring + ''); // get all dictionary elements defined with any of script types var grdict = new GlideRecord('sys_dictionary'); grdict.addQuery('internal_type', 'CONTAINS', 'script'); grdict.addORQuery('internal_type', 'CONTAINS', 'condition'); grdict.addORQuery('internal_type', 'CONTAINS', 'XML'); grdict.addEncodedQuery('nameNOT LIKEvar_m'); // exclude variable tables grdict.query(); while(grdict.next()) { var table = grdict.getValue('name'); var field = grdict.getValue('element'); log.push('Search in ' + table + '.' + field + ' (' + grdict.sys_id + '): '); // get the records containing the search term in the script field var gr = new GlideRecord(table); gr.addQuery(field, 'CONTAINS', searchstring); gr.query(); while(gr.next()) { log.push('\tFound in ' + gr.name + ''); } } // ... print out gs.log(log.join('\n'));

})(searchstring);