Creating Task fields
One thing that's important to understand about tasks in ServiceNow, is that all task records (whether they're changes, problems, incidents, requests, request items, catalog tasks, or tasks in any other table that extends the base system Task [task] table) are technically all stored in a single database table. Although in ServiceNow, you see them as separate tables, that isn't actually the case. This is due to the flattening of the task table.
Each task-extending table has a field called Task type [sys_class_name], which defines what type of task it is (problem, change, incident, and so on.) by containing the name (not label) of the table that it's in (incident, problem, change_request, sc_req_item, and so on.). ServiceNow groups ...
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