I'm Forrest Falk, a ServiceNow Certified Master Architect (CMA). In this post, I'll share practical insights from a CMA’s perspective and show how to use build agent to create, edit and deploy full stack ServiceNow applications that encompass front and backend components. This post is part of a series, and I will be posting updates as I go along. Each post I will be sharing my experience with build agent and add more features. I will cover starting from scratch to how to edit our application.
View part 1 here: Creating an application with Now Assist Build Agent - Part 1
View part 2 here: Creating an application with Now Assist Build Agent - Part 2
View part 3 here: Creating an application with Now Assist Build Agent - Part 3
Welcome back everyone! Previously we got our storeroom application built with demo data, but it is looking a little dull. Yes, it is functional, but it does not pop. Let’s see if we can add a little, “BAM!” to our dashboard. What I am thinking is Apple just redesigned their theme to liquid glass, why can’t we? Let’s go ahead and now prompt the Build Agent to generate a liquid glass theme. Again, in this series, I want to test the abilities of the Build Agent and LLM to see if it can identify what liquid glass means.
It took several minutes to update the theme, and we got the images below. All I can say is, “WOW!” It nailed the interruption that I asked for. What is hard to show in screenshots is that the background is this gradient that changes between purple, red and pink to really show the transparency of the liquid glass theme. I can’t get over enough how well the Claude 4 Sonnet model preform this task and picked a background to demonstrate that the transparency actively works.
Now, as much as I like the fancy interpretation on all the time. I am sure it is not practical for everyone. For example, asset management teams may want to display the dashboard on a TV and it is a bit too distracting to have the colors constantly change back and forth. Let’s see if we can prompt it to create a floating toggle switch so we can turn it off and on by preference. This will give teams the flexibility they need.
After running a few minutes, it added a floating button on the bottom right. When you are on the liquid glass theme, it shows a “Basic” button you can click to switch it to the basic view. When on the basic theme, you get a “Glass” floating button to select.
We can see that the floating button has been added to all the different pages of the UI so we can change it back and forth between the liquid glass and basic themes.
Screenshot of a specific storeroom’s inventory:
Screenshot of the low stock alerts:
Join me for part 5 where I update the tables to use the out-of-the-box Hardware Asset Management (HAM) tables.
Part 5:Creating an application with Now Assist Build Agent - Part 5
