I am researching ServiceNow, I know next to nothing about it. Funny how the most obvious questions seem to be the hardest to Google. My specific question is about applications.
ServiceNow runs as SaaS, correct? So, if I build a ServiceNow application, for a user to access that application, they would open the ServiceNow platform in their browser, then they would have a menu of applications they could launch, correct?
Is it possible to host a ServiceNow application on a specific page, or on a website, or embed it in a SharePoint page, so I can give out a URL for a user to run the application? Or do they always have to navigate through the ServiceNow portal to run my application?
I know this sounds like a dumb question. But everything I have read assumes you already know this information, so a dumb, obvious question it has to be.
ServiceNow assumes that it is managing the entire window (or tab). You might be able to get something to work using HTML frames, but there is a good chance it would break with a future ServiceNow upgrade.
On the other hand, it possible to redirect a user into a specific ServiceNow page by constructing the appropriate URL. If the user does not already have an active session cookie then ServiceNow will prompt them to authenticate. You can redirect to a specific Service Portal page, or a specific catalog item or a specific record. You can redirect to a ServiceNow Dashboard. If you want to show a list of records, you can dynamically build a query. You can redirect into Agent Workspace or the classic platform UI. If directing into the classic platform UI you can show or hide the ServiceNow navigation menu based on whether or not your URL contains nav_to.do?.
There is a bit of an introduction on this page, although it really only scratches the surface:
https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/sandiego-platform-user-interface/page/use/navigation/reference/r_NavigatingByURLExamples.html
If you want to drive ServiceNow from a web site or from SharePoint, then you just need to construct the right URL which will open ServiceNow in a new browser tab.
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Dynamics CRM (relative) newbie here.
I have an activity feed set up on a users dashboard (I used the Personal Wall web resource). If I look at the default posts for the Account view, everything is cool.
However, if I go and "follow" an Account when I look at my activity feed I can see other posts that relate to records that Account is involved with that are outside of my security role. For example, that Account has several Case records. My role has no permissions to Cases whatsoever, but there is the post in my activity feed. If I click on the case I get a prvReadPriviledge error which is correct, but I don't want users to do this - I don't want these posts to show up in their feeds at all, even if the are following the account.
These posts do need to show up in the feeds for people working Cases, however (and their roles will have read/write to the Case entity).
I'm not sure what do here.. can you help?
I believe that this is what you're looking for it's from Microsoft's site.
"The activity feeds walls are web resources that can be embedded in dashboards in context with relevant grids and visualizations. For example, you can embed the msdyn_/PersonalWall.htm web resource into a dashboard with specifying the HideUserProfile parameter. The default is value 1 (or, true), to hide the user profile, to unhide, use the value 0 (or, false). For more information about how to use web resources in dashboards, see Analyze data with dashboards."
I'm assisting another developer with adding a link to a page in a product called Lawson that we use in-house. I need to pass the authenticated user's employee ID to an HTML page we're bolting on. I'm still looking at existing pages on the server, but thought I'd ask: does anyone know how the Javascript object that represents the authenticated user works? It looks like something server-side must be dynamically creating a Javascript object that has useful properties. It is usually called 'AuthUser'. I want to add the necessary JS references to my new page to support this object and access its properties. Does anyone have any experience with that? Thanks!
If you are in a portal session, you can access this in javascript through attributes of portalWnd.oUserProfile:
alert(portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("id"))
This will give you the logged in user's short username. Many other attributes are available. To see a complete list, log into a portal session and then replace the URL with:
http://YOURPORTALSERVER/servlet/Profile
I'm not sure what you mean by "bolting on", but if you want to pass an attribute to an external page launched from a Portal session, you could create a user shortcut via Portal preferences using something like:
javascript:window.open("http://yourserver/yourpage.html?user=" + portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("id"))
as the target and process in yourpage.html like a normal GET method form.
If you are still puzzling over this all these months later, provide some specifics if you need more guidance.
I want to implement Single signon between Spring application and Netsuite using cas. Seached many things on net but nothing was fruitful. kindly help me on this with some links or documents.
Thanks in advance.
I just completed two SSO's in NetSuite for our firm. (You will find this under Setup>Integration>SSO) We ended up having NetSuite send a specifically crafted URL to our internal PHP intranet. The web app' there receives the incoming URL and does stuff on it, and the user gets what they need.
Forgive me for not knowing anything about Spring, but if you can run your web app' to receive an incoming URL (post), then you will create a new SSO object inside of your ERP instance, and pass the values that you need to pass to your web app' from there. Those can be built-in values that come right out the system (ie: "{entityid}") or these can be values that you create with a script, pass them to the SSO, then the SSO passes those to your web app'. You can "place" an SSO "object" on to a "custom Tab" on your "custom Form". Or you can create an entirely new Form. Or you can place your SSO in some other location. I chose to place ours on a custom Tab, as that was effective for our use case.
The only other two places you can "place" your SSO is on to a "Portlet" (say, like a custom panel on your Dashboard or similar) or a "SuiteLet" (which I havent done yet but am working on right now).
If you have any "bundles" installed in your instance, some of them have SSO inside of them, and some of them are "protected" and some of them are not, and the unprotected ones can be downloaded as JavaScript to your machine for examination, consideration, & emulation.
The help in SuiteAnswers is decent but doesnt give many working examples for your to adapt. The PHP Tool Kit has a working sample of an SSO inside of it & I highly recommend getting that, unzipping it, and reading all of those files, even if it has no table of contents, you can easily follow all the includes and references amongst those files.
If you have a specific follow-up question about something in there, please post, and while I'm an intermediate at it, I'll give it the ole college try to answer. And if you need anything past that, ping me.
Cheers.
I am developing my first application using the Composite C1 CMS as the core system. I am currently working my way through the documentation and learning about data structuring, etc. I see that there is a paid Extranet package which can be purchased but I would prefer to develop my own Membership system within the site.
What would be the best way for me to allow users to register on the front end of my Composite C1 website and then to allow them access to a password protected area once they have registered and logged in?
I am a fairly experienced .net developer but Composite C1 is very new to me (at first impressions I like it a lot!)
Thanks
Like the commercial Extranet package you can write a RenderingResponseHandler plugin and register it it the ~/App_Data/Composite/Composite.config file.
Check the guide "How can I validate users before a page or media file is being served?"
RenderingResponseHandler plugins are tasked with approving page and media requests and they can either let the request pass or redirect the request to a new URL.
You would need to take care of the user data base and login page yourself. Also some mechanism that would allow a user of the cms to mark pages as protected/public might make sense.
There is relevant pointers on the CodePlex thread "Restricting access to MediaArchive files"
Hey everyone, I am sorry if this question has already been asked/answered
But I have a Cocoa program that has different arrays of models. Each model hold just Strings and one Image. Archiving and Loading works great.
Each model represents a web account, that is, it holds the username and password, and some other information related to the website. Moving forward I would like to be able to update information in each model by accessing the information from the website. For example updating a balance ($). I am wondering if there is a way to do that programatically that is:
Automatically log into web account using the entered username, pass, and website url
Update the balance based on the information following log in.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Tamara
There is no single approach to log into any arbitrary website. You will need to know what the API for the given website is. If the website provides a web service to query things like balance, then you would connect using that web service (REST-based if at all possible; SOAP is more of a pain in Cocoa), and update your model based on the results. If the website provides no web service, then you would have to scrape through the HTML responses looking for what you want, and this is generally very complex and fragile. There is no general answer to this question; you'd have to know what form the website is in.
On another note, make sure that you are not storing user passwords in unencrypted files. User passwords on Mac should always be stored in Keychain. There are many posts on SO about how to best use Keychain.
Rob, isn't it possible to just look through the login page's html source and see what are the names of the fields for user and pass, and then just send a POST request to that page from code ?