Remote Tables

If you have the admin role, you can activate the Remote Tables plugin (com.glide.script.vtable). This plugin includes demo data and activates related plugins if they aren’t already active.

Build and create a flow for a remote table so that you can retrieve data from an external source with it.

Define scripts for a remote table to retrieve data from an external data source or edit data in the external source.

Create a remote table using data retrieved from an external source.

You can enable session debugging for remote table script definitions. To enable script definition logging in a session debug log, set the glide.script.vtable.log.debug property to true.

Set the triggers and actions to define a remote table flow logic.

Domain separation is unsupported in remote tables. Domain separation enables you to separate data, processes, and administrative tasks into logical groupings called domains. You can control several aspects of this separation, including which users can see and access data.

These are examples of script definitions you might create for retrieval and caching of data from sources external to your current instance. In this first example, we create a script to load all incident records from an external source.

In this example, we create a script to retrieve specific types of incident records from a third-party source.

In this example, we create a script to insert an incident record into the external source.

In this example, we create a script to update an incident record in the external source.

In this example, we create a script to delete an incident record from the external source.

Connect the ServiceNow AI Platform to third-party sources, or to another instance, so that you can retrieve external data and optionally cache it in memory.