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Handling Assignment Rules in ServiceNow
In ServiceNow, if one is looking for automatic assignments then he can rely on the instance’s ability to assign the tasks automatically to different users and groups depending on the specified conditions. In order to achieve this, ServiceNow has the following modules:
- Assignment Lookup Rules
- Assignment Rules
Assignment Lookup Rules:
This module appears under the ‘System Policy application’ menu. This table is basically generated out of the box as its definition is provided in the ‘Data Lookup Definition’ table in the instance, specifically for field assignments in the incident table. Assignment lookup rules mainly provide the functionality of changing any field value and not just the assignment fields.
Assignment Rules:
This module appears under the ‘System Policy application’ menu. It helps to automatically assign the tasks to a particular user or a particular group using the assigned_to and assignment_group fields respectively, depending on the specified set of conditions. One can define these assignment rules readily for their desired table.
Following are the steps for defining the assignment rule:
- Navigate to System Policy -> Assignment -> New
- From the above figure, one can see that the dot-walking can also be done in the condition builder field. Just select the ‘Show Related Fields’ option in the condition and then select the appropriate attribute.
- Further, in the ‘Assign To’ tab, select the appropriate user and group to whom the task is to be assigned.
If two assignment rules conflict, then the assignment rule with the lowest execution order runs first. The lower the execution order, the higher is the precedence.
Distinguishing Factors between the Data Lookup Rules and Assignment Rules:
Precedence among the assignment rule and business rule:.
In certain circumstances, the business rules gain precedence over the assignment rules.
The business rules and assignments rules run in the following order:
- All the ‘before record insert’ business rules having order less than 1000.
- First and foremost, assignment rule with lowest execution order and matching condition.
- All the ‘before record insert’ business rules having order more than 1000.
- All the ‘after record insert’ business rules.
We are pretty sure that this blog must have given an overview of dealing with Assignment Rules in ServiceNow.
Any comments\suggestions are most welcome. We have posted further blogs as well on other topics and will frequently come back with something innovative.
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Lookup rules run onChange when the lookup values match the rule, it sets (ie) the assignment group. Assignment rules run at insert/update. Assignment rules can use a script to set the assignment group, where lookup rules require an exact match. Priority is another example of lookup rules, where priority is combination of Impact & urgency.
Lookup rules run onChange when the lookup values match the rule, it sets (ie) the assignment group. Assignment rules run at insert/update. Assignment rules can use a script to set the assignment group, where lookup rules require an exact match. For more details refer following document links. Define assignment rules for incidents. Data lookup ...
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Judging by the table name that looks like a data lookup table. Is there any reason why you are not trying to implement this requirement using the Data Lookup Definitions rather than Assignment Rules? If you are insistent on taking this route, then the last line should read. current.task_fulfillment_group.setValue(assignment_group);
Why do we use assignment rule, data lookup, etc. Atul: Assignment rules are like OOTB and direct way, We use the Assignment rule when we have a set of values like cat/ sub cat and 2 more fields and then directly add the group. Data lookup: As the name indicates, when we need to set some value based on some other values, by look up.
In certain circumstances, the business rules gain precedence over the assignment rules. The business rules and assignments rules run in the following order: All the 'before record insert' business rules having order less than 1000. First and foremost, assignment rule with lowest execution order and matching condition.
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CSM Customer Portal created cases are not assigned evenly to the expected group members. The assignment rule script and matching rules are getting executed with the user session ID instead of the system