Creating the table

Now that we've created an update set and marked it as current, we're ready to begin development. As is the case with many (though not all!) ServiceNow applications, we begin our application by creating a new table to house our data. In this case, we're creating a virtual war room application, so we'll create a table to hold virtual war room tickets.

First, in the application navigator, navigate to System Definition | Tables, and you'll be presented with the list view for the sys_db_object table; or you might say, the Tables table.

Click on the blue New button at the top-left of this list to get started. On the New record form, enter Virtual War Room for the label, and press Tab. Once you've done that, the Name field should ...

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