Administrators can share applications that are complete and are ready for use on other
instances.
Application developers can share applications using one of the following methods.
Table 1. Application sharing methods
| Sharing method |
Makes available to |
Typical use case |
| Publish to the application repository |
All instances assigned to the same company |
Transfer an application to a test or production environment. |
| Publish to the ServiceNow Store |
All ServiceNow
customers |
Share or sell applications to other companies. |
| Publish to an Update Set |
Any instance with access to the Update Set file |
Save a version of an application for compliance or backup reasons. |
| Push to team development instances |
Other instances in the team development environment |
Push developer changes to the parent instance. |
Note:
“Tracking schema”: Deleting a table or a column in a scoped application is enabled by default
for freshly zbooted instances. This is done by having the system property
“com.glide.apps.include_my_schema” set to “true”.
For upgraded instances, if you have no custom applications installed or in development,
“tracking schema deletes” is enabled by default. Otherwise the property is set to “false” so
that customers get the same experience for schema deletes in their applications as in previous
releases.
