Configuring user and workspace settings in the ServiceNow IDE
Configure your experience in the ServiceNow IDE with user and workspace settings.
The ServiceNow IDE includes settings unique to development in the ServiceNow IDE and settings from Visual Studio Code. The following settings are unique to the ServiceNow IDE.
You can configure settings specific to your user or a workspace. To open the settings, select Manage (
) > Settings from the Activity Bar or use the Preferences: Open Settings (UI) command from the command palette.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Fluent: Build Button Behavior | Controls whether the Build button only builds the application (build) or builds and installs the application on the instance (buildAndDeploy). For more information, see Build and install an application in the ServiceNow IDE. |
| Fluent: Disable SDK Load From Disk | Uses the version of the ServiceNow SDK that's bundled with a version of the ServiceNow IDE. If unselected, the version of the ServiceNow SDK installed in an application's node_modules directory is used. For more information, see Update the ServiceNow SDK version for an application in the ServiceNow IDE. |
| Fluent: Exclude Author Elective App Delete | Excludes the Author Elective Updates file, which can contain a delete record for your application, to avoid uninstalling the application while building. |
| Fluent: Incremental Sync | Synchronizes only the changes made to the application metadata since the last time that the application was synced. If unselected, all metadata in the application is synced. For more information, see Synchronizing applications in the ServiceNow IDE. |
| Fluent: Sync Ignored Tables | Lists tables to ignore when syncing. For more information, see Synchronizing applications in the ServiceNow IDE. |
| Metadata Explorer: Suggestions | Enables displaying links in the editor to open the Metadata Explorer view for metadata defined with a dedicated ServiceNow Fluent API. For more information, see ServiceNow IDE user interface. |