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sendThreadEntryToServiceNowIncident

A Workflow Engine function that sends an incident work note to ServiceNow when a collaboration entry is posted in a Moogsoft Situation with related incidents.

This function is available as a feature of the Add-ons v2.3 download and later.

This function is available for Situation workflows only.

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Arguments

Workflow Engine function sendThreadEntryToServiceNowIncident takes the following arguments:

Name

Required

Type

Description

instance

yes

string

Same as in UI

Example

The following example demonstrates typical use of Workflow Engine function sendThreadEntryToServiceNowIncident. In this case, the the workflow adds a work note to related ServiceNow incidents using the collaboration post text entered in the Situation.

Sample Workflow - Add note to ServiceNow Incident (Situation Integration WFE)

Action

Description

Entry filter

Empty (can be added) as initiated from Client Tool or other WFE

DELAY

0 seconds (set as needed)

Check/get for correlation info

(getCorrelationInfo)

Check for related ServiceNow incidents and if any exist set the correlation info workflow context item

serviceName: ServiceNowMgmt

contextName (Optional):

Add work note to Incident

(sendThreadEntryToServiceNowIncident)

Send the note add request to ServiceNow

instance : $(workflowContext.passedInstance)

The workflow takes input values from workflowContext (set in the corresponding workflow in the Situation Delta WFE which initiates this request) and, in this case, issues a request to ServiceNow to add a work note to the incident.