Calculated value, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

Calculated value, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

G?ran Lundqvist - ServiceNow Witch Doctor G?ran Lundqvist - ServiceNow Witch Doctor

G?ran Lundqvist - ServiceNow Witch Doctor

Expert Training Programs - Principal Delivery Manager | ServiceNow MVP[2017 - 2021] | Author

发布日期: 2016年6月23日
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Sometimes you want a field to be the result of a calculation of another field. Before I found about the "calculated value" function, I did this in for example a business rule. But after finding out how this works, I try to do it in here first, and if that somehow doesn't work, I'll go for the other options.

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Kalaiarasan Pushpanathan

Ex-ServiceNow MVP and Architect, Associate Director

8 年

This topic is very close to me as I am currently trying to fix a mess created by this :D It's a cool feature but it will always remain by last resort :)

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Kalaiarasan Pushpanathan

Ex-ServiceNow MVP and Architect, Associate Director

8 年

Calculated fields are a potential pitfall and can/will cause performance issue as the instance becomes mature and the number of records grows. I almost, always avoid using it ...

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