Key questions about this property
The answers below summarize the purpose, scope, default effect, and review scenarios for this property.
| What does it do? |
Provides a comma-separated list of dictionary attributes for the maintenance protection rule to check; a blank value provides an empty list. |
| What area does it affect? |
Dictionary maintenance protection |
| What does the default mean? |
No out of the box record exists and the scripts that read it pass no fallback value. |
| When should you review it? |
When changing which dictionary attributes the maintenance protection rule checks |
Property record
No out of the box record exists. ServiceNow scripts read this property; create it to change the behavior.
| Property name |
glide.maint.dictionary_attributes |
| Type |
Not stated |
| Application |
Not stated |
| Default value |
Not set |
| Description |
Not stated |
Sources
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Business rule: Maint Attribute Protection
The rule reads this setting and removes surrounding whitespace; if no value is set, it uses an empty string. The code provided does not show how the setting affects users or admins.
/sys_script.do?sys_id=11c47463bf3221000ba9dc2ecf0739bb
Business rule: Maint Attribute Protection
It supplies a comma-separated list of dictionary attributes for the rule to check; the default passed is blank, which means the list is empty. The shown code detects when a listed attribute is newly added, but does not show what happens next or any difference between users and admins.
/sys_script.do?sys_id=e6304113bf3221000ba9dc2ecf0739f9
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