Relating Business Services to Service Offerings?

Johannes
Kilo Sage

Our users want to use the Dependency View to visualize what Service Offerings their Business Services consists of.

Following the CSDM model, these are only referenced to each other, and will thus not show. 

Is there any reason not "remediate" this by e.g. create a business rule automatically creating/maintaining relations based on the Service Offerings "Parent" field?

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CMDB Whisperer
Mega Sage
Mega Sage

You don't need to do that.  In ServiceNow you can define custom references that will be included in the Dependency view.  Just go to Dependency Views --> Map Related Items and create a new record as shown below.

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Note that depending on what node is the home node in your Dependency Map, you might have to click on the "Load More" option from the popup menu to get them to display.

Please mark as Correct Answer once you have verified this works for you.  Thanks!


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@Barry Kant  Not sure I follow that logic.  If you create a relationship from the Service to the Service Offering then this won't create a loop, if by "loop" you mean circular dependency.  The Service depends on the Offering.  I think by "both directions" Johannes meant "viewing the relationships between the Services and Offerings in the dependency map, regardless of which side of that relationships is selected as the primary node."  There is no CI relationship going in the other direction, from the Offering to the Service, so there is no "loop" potential that I can see.  And I agree with Johannes's comment about the problem in the dependency map that the references are not visible if you are coming from one side.  There is probably a change that could be made to the actual diagramming logic to fix this so that, at the very least, the relations are shown when selecting "Load More", but in lieu of that I'm not seeing a danger in creating a relationship from the Service to the Offering.  Can you elaborate on this further?


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I got confused by the both direction part indeed. 
If the intend is purely visualization then yes the relation willl facilitate that indeed. 
and indeed while going in reverse direction it needs a load more action. 
will come back to this soon. 

Community Alums
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Hi @Barry Kant was there any action planned? To me it's a gap in the dependency view, you should be able to see the services (and potentially the taxonomy node and portfolio as well)

Current situation (what is shown):
Application service>>Service offering

Expected (to be able to configure at least if not by default):
Application service>>Service offering>>Service>>Taxonomy node>>Service Portfolio