Mastering ServiceNow Scripting

Logging in scoped applications

As we discovered when we looked at gs.log, it does not work in scoped applications. For logging in scoped applications, we need to use a different method. In fact, there are four methods that can be used.

The four levels of logging in a scoped application are:

• Error
• Warn
• Info
• Debug

This type of logging works in a very similar way to gs.log, but with the different levels of log replacing the word log after gs. 

Let's have a look at how to write a basic script for each:

gs.error('Error log');gs.warn('Warn log');gs.info('Info log');gs.debug('Debug log');

These logs are visible in the application logs table, which can be viewed by going to System Logs | System Log | Application Logs. 

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