Hardware, Software, HW end of life disposal, or Lease Contract) Import Type is a choice list of options that describe the kind of asset data being imported (e.g.Vendor references records in the Company (core_company) table where the Vendor field is set to true.That’s because the record producer’s script queries the Wizard Configuration table for values to use when it inserts a new record in the Data Source table. This table has many fields that are similar to those on a Data Source record. This table allowed us to build a flexible framework for defining different types of file imports from any vendor. The variable gets its list of options from a custom table called Import Wizard Configurations. We added a single variable to the record producer, a lookup select box to allow the ITAM team member to specify the type of import they were performing. We configured the record producer as follows: And the record producer’s Script field enables powerful data processing. Files attached to the record producer are automatically attached to the record that is created.
Their visibility can be limited to only interested parties. Specifically, we created a Record Producer to provide a simple front-end for importing vendors’ data files. To make it easy for the client’s ITAM team to import their data in to ServiceNow, we leveraged the power of the Service Catalog.
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They were already aware of the Load Data wizard that ServiceNow provides on the System Import Sets application menu, but that solution isn’t very user-friendly, and it requires a lot of manual input each time new data are imported. What the client needed was a simple way to perform a data import via a Data Source with a file attachment. Finally, it isn’t very scalable, since a new inbound email action must be created for every additional vendor and/or data source. Inbound email processing also leaves the client at the mercy of the vendor for the timing of the imports. The most serious was that there’s no way to validate the accuracy or completeness of data being sent by the vendor. But we discovered some big downsides with that approach.
We started to create custom inbound email actions to process emails with attached data files as they were sent from each vendor.
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But to control their hardware and software assets today, they needed a solution to work with multiple vendors and data formats. The client’s desired future state is to enforce a single format for use by all vendors. The company, a global manufacturer of household appliances, has dozens of vendors around the world, which supply data (CSV and Excel files) using proprietary formats and column names. Recently along with my Crossfuze colleagues Josh McMullen and Scott Cornthwaite, I performed work for a client that needed to import asset data from several third party vendors.
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