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How to do reminders in ServiceNow

Jace's Blog · Jun 07, 2018 · article

This has come up often enough that it merits a post. Reminders of sorts can be set up a four ways in ServiceNow. This is the pros and cons of each.

There's a four ways I know of doing this;

  • Scheduled Report
  • SLA Notifications
  • Scheduled Job (much like incident auto close)
  • Scheduled Events

Each of these have their pro's and con's, lets get into it.

Scheduled Report

Probably the easiest to set up as it requires a report, and a scheduled report.

Pro Con
A Report, and Scheduled Report Occurs at the frequency it scheduled
No coding required Less configurable
No email template to set up Email is set based on report sharing

SLA Notifications

Pro Con
No coding required Occurs at the frequency it scheduled
Specific to tasks

Scheduled Job

Pro Con
Requires Scheduled Job, Event, Notification Occurs at the frequency it scheduled
Configurable due to coding Requires coding

Scheduled Events

Pro Con
Triggers when it's supposed to Requires Event, Notification, Business Rules, and possibly it's own event queue
Configurable Requires coding
Requires managing the scheduled events if the date/time changes

Scheduled Flow Trigger

Pro Con
Access be delegated using Scoped App and Flow Designer content filtering Delegates can reak havoc, shouldn't create them directly in prod.

Thansks @milligna!

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