This is one of those secrets I wish I would have discovered years ago because it really opens a world of possibilities within the CMS. This method was revealed to me by Brian Alson. There's a few other ways of creating custom blocks types like this, but this one is by far the easiest. If you're creating a block that will contain "child" records, such as a slideshow, then I would suggest extending the child table from "content_link" table and either create a M2M table or a parent reference field back to the content block. I would love to hear your comments or feedback if you guys find this useful.
Custom Navigation Menu Content Blocks with Twitter Bootstrap
This is Part 2 of my ServiceNow CMS + Twitter Bootstrap series. Below are the code examples you will need as explained in the video: cms_menu: [crayon-6a9fee8e23a5c393261971/] cms_menu_bootstrap_nav [crayon-6a9fee8e23a62925317936/] Layout Includes: [crayon-6a9fee8e23a65113685968/] jQueryFix: [crayon-6a9fee8e23a68301346950/]
Enhancing CMS for Modern ServiceNow Powered Websites
Having built over a dozen ServiceNow ESS portals, I finally had enough of the issues and limitations and decided to do something about it. What resulted was a month long effort of enhancing the CMS framework to function more like WordPress or other content management systems. I set out with some basic goals: Follow best practices Use semantic HTML & CSS Responsive layouts for mobile & tablet Avoid using iFrames Don't touch OOB Macros & UI pages To accomplish these goals I ended up having to add on quite a bit of functionality such as: Custom content types Header & footer templates Live search Event driven notifications Bring UI pages into CMS Form content blocks In this video I do a quick demonstration of these enhancements and our latest theme: "Orebro".
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