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Learning ServiceNow
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Learning ServiceNow

by Sylvain Hauser
March 2017
Beginner
358 pages
9h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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changes(), changesFrom() and changesTo()

The changes(), changesFrom(), and changesTo() methods of the GlideElement class are generally called from within business rules that run before or after a given database update is made. These methods return a boolean value indicating whether a field has changed at all, whether it's changed from a specified value, or whether it's changed to a specified value, respectively.

The changes() method does not accept any arguments. It doesn't need to, because it's being called from the GlideElement corresponding to the field, so it already knows which field is being checked.

changesFrom() and changesTo() however, both take one argument - a value to compare the old or new value of the field to, respectively. ...

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