CreateNow Developers,
As promised, we wanted to get out a monthly update as to what has been released and what we are working on with the Developers Site and Program. Expect this blog to go out on a monthly basis, or if we have something incredible to talk about, bi-monthly.
Last update was directly to the early access folks just before Knowledge. We have come out of our deep freeze to provide some content updates and great feature enhancements.
Content Updates:
Based on the incredible feedback you have provided us we have made considerable updates to the training courses. We have received so much feedback on the Building an Example ServiceNow Application that we have removed it from the navigation to restructure it. We appreciate those that provided feedback taking the time to help us get things right. You can still access it here.
New Features:
- My Instance page
- Last status time — Upper right of the frame tells you the last time the status was updated.
- Activity description — Hovering over the last activity date provides a description of what activity is being measured.
- Link to FAQ — Quick link at the bottom of the page takes you to common questions about the instances.
- New instance support link — Instead of taking you to the thread creation form for the instance help section, the link now takes you to the Instance Help space on the Developer Community. We did this since there were so many repeat questions.
- Plugin Activation — Also on the My Instance page under the action menu, activates plugins that traditionally only ServiceNow Support has access. All of these were requested through feedback and permission granted by the plugin owner. We have added several new plugins that you can activate through self-service:
- Domain Support - Domain Extensions Installer
- ECC Queue Retry Policy
- Event Management
- Many to many task relations
- Orchestration - Examples
- Orchestration Activities - EC2
- Orchestration Activities - Puppet
- Orchestration Virtualization
- Orchestration - Amazon EC2
- Orchestration Activities - Chef
- Orchestration - VMware Support
- Orchestration Activities - VMware
- Orchestration Virtualization Core Components
- Performance Analytics - Premium and all content packs
- Password Reset - Orchestration Add-on
- Domain Support - Domain Extensions Installer
- Course Navigation — First tested on the API reference, by popular demand, courses now have a sticky left navigation pane that scrolls independently of the content. We will be extending this to documentation next.
Stay tuned: (What's on the horizon)
- Upgrades to new patch versions both automated and self-service through the My Instance page, Action menu
- New courses — Advanced UI and Native Platform Features are in the design stages and getting resourced by the documentation team
- More APIs — Docs team working hard at making the site the one stop reference to all platform APIs
- And many more cool features …
Please use the feedback forms on the developer site to tell us what you think, or comment below. We are trying to make this site an indispensable part of your daily routine and we need your direct input to help us do that. We are listening.
Regards,
CreateNow Team
