Application Navigator
Use the Application Navigator to quickly locate your scripts
- Select the star icon to the right of an Application or Module to identify it as a Favorite
- Browse Your history to locate recently opened scripts
The Application Navigator provides links to all applications and modules in the ServiceNow platform.
- All applications — all applications and modules are displayed. Double-click the All applications icon for expand/collapse all functionality.
- Favorites — only items identified as favorites are displayed. Favorites are configured on a per user basis. When the star icon to the right of an Application is selected, all the modules under the application are listed as favorites.
- Your history — list of most recently accessed items. System Administrators can increase/decrease the number of records pulled by setting the value of the glide.ui.nav.history_length system property. Baseline, the initial number of records is 30.
Select the Minimize/Maximize Navigator button to collapse or expand the Application Navigator. Hover over the icons to display an item's full name when the Navigator is minimized.
Select Edit Favorites to customize items in the Favorites list.
TIPS FROM THE FIELD
Save a record as a Favorite by select Create Favorite on the record's Context menu or by drag the record from a list to your list of favorites
Save a list as a Favorite by selecting Create Favorite on the list's Context menu or by dragging a breadcrumb condition to your list of favorites
If you forget to create a favorite, check Your history for recently accessed items.
Add the Updated column to a list to sort the list by the most recently edited scripts.
Add the Updated by column to a list to easily find scripts updated by a specific person.
Search for the element by 'Name' using the Go to search field at the top of a list.
- mySearchString (no leading or trailing characters) — does a search (like "starts with" but includes everything after the search string alphabetically also
- *mySearchString — does a "contains" search
- mySearchString% — does a "starts with" search.
- %mySearchString — does an "ends with" search.