---
title: Examples of navigating by URL
description: A list of example URLs that demonstrate ways to open pages in the ServiceNow application.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/platform-user-interface/r\_NavigatingByURLExamples.html
release: australia
topic_type: reference
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Navigate to a record or module using a URL, Forms in the classic environment, Working in the classic environment, Working in Core UI, Configure UIs and portals, Configure user experiences]
---

# Examples of navigating by URL

A list of example URLs that demonstrate ways to open pages in the ServiceNow application.

## Open a form with preset values

Schema: `https://<baseURL>/nav_to.do?uri=<table name>.do?sys_id=-1&sysparm_query=<field=value>`

|Description|Example|
|-----------|-------|
|Opens a new Incident form in the standard interface with a priority of **1** and an incident state of **Awaiting Problem**.|`https://<instance name>.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=incident.do?sys_id=-1&sysparm_query=priority=1^incident_state=3`|
|You can also use JavaScript to access GlideSystem methods. The following example creates the same type of incident as above, and also populates the caller ID with the current user ID.|`https://<instance name>.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=incident.do?sys_id=-1&sysparm_query=priority=1^incident_state=3^caller_id=javascript:gs.getUserID()`|

## Open an existing record with preset values

Schema: `https://<baseURL>/nav_to.do?uri=<table name>.do?sys_id=<sys_id>`

|Description|Example|
|-----------|-------|
|Opens the incident record with the sys\_id `966c9a414f5593001f6eac118110c75c`|`https://<instance name>.service-now.com/incident.do?sys_id=966c9a414f5593001f6eac118110c75c`|
|Opens the incident record with the number `INC0010001`|`https://<instance name>.service-now.com/incident.do?sysparm_query=number=INC0010001`|

## View a list of incidents

Schemas for the following examples:

-   `https://<baseURL>/nav_to.do?uri=<table name>_list.do`
-   `https://<baseURL>/<table name>_list.do`

|Description|Example|
|-----------|-------|
|Opens a list of all incidents with \(example 1\) the navigation frame.|`https://<instance name>.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=incident_list.do`|
|Opens a list of all incidents without the navigation frame.|`https://<instance name>.service-now.com/incident_list.do`|

## View a list of attachments

Schema: `https://<baseURL>/nav_to.do?uri=<table name>_list.do`

|Description|Example|
|-----------|-------|
|Opens the Attachments table in list view.|`https://<instance name>.service-now.com/sys_attachment_list.do`|

## View a filtered list

Schema: `https://<baseURL>/nav_to.do?uri=<table name>_list.do?sysparm_query=<field=value>`

|Description|Example|
|-----------|-------|
|Returns a list of active incidents with high escalation in the standard interface.|`https://<instance name>.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=incident_list.do?sysparm_query=active=true^escalation=2`|

## Return a file

Schema: `https://<baseURL>/nav_to.do?uri=<table name>_list.do?sysparm_<sysparmTypeOrField=value>&CSV`

|Description|Example|
|-----------|-------|
|Returns a comma-separated value file of records in the Incident table that meet the query conditions.|`https://<instance name>.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=incident_list.do?sysparm_query=active=false&CSV`|

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