Video: NOWCommunity Live Stream - Topical Deep Dive - Custom Flow actions

[Chuck Tomasi]

Watch this video to discover how you can extend the functionality of Flow Designer beyond the baseline actions to create reusable components for your Flow authors. I cover creating a basic action, inputs, outputs, best practices, and some lessons learned.

Episode topics include:

• Flow Designer overview
• Creating an action
• Creating a spoke/scope

Code snippets can be found in the GitHub repository.

References:

• Knowledge 2020
• Learn JavaScript on the Now Platform
• ServiceNow Developer Site
• ServiceNow Developer meetups
• Book: No-Code Apps For Dummies
• Docs: Flow Designer
• Docs: Create an action

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