For new administrators, it can be difficult to know when to script. For coders, it can be easy to look to script before you need to, with so many opportunities to write script in ServiceNow. However, it is much better to not write script wherever possible.
If you can configure instead of scripting, it should be your first thought. This allows the tool to be used in the way it was intended and will leave you much more prepared when upgrading your instance. Not only that; one of the main reasons for using configurations over customizing is for maintenance. Configurations are easily maintained by different admins, while customization's require some basic knowledge of scripts and the logic behind them, so they tend ...
