Building Stand Alone Applications

[Dylan Mann1]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to ServiceNow, and I want to learn how to create sexy, custom UI's for scoped applications through ServiceNow. Creating apps with the standard forms, lists, workflows, etc. is easy enough and very well documented, but I want to make applications like the My First Day onboarding app or the Outage app which are both featured in the App Developer training module. I'm looking for guidance from some of the SNOW veterans out there on how you learned or what steps I should take to accomplish this. How can I build these eye pleasing apps?

My team and I have been researching how to connect a stand alone application to ServiceNow and are considering using Angular2 as our framework using our own personal IDEs. Is this the best way to do it? Can we connect this to a ServiceNow portal (in a way similar to the Studio app) or publish the app onto the ServiceNow store? Or is it best to build the app through ServiceNow using UI Pages and Scripts, customizing the application exclusively through my developer instance? What is standard practice in creating custom applications?

If anyone could respond with some guidance or resources I would greatly appreciate it.

Dylan

[Rushit Patel2]

if you are into preety and custom UI + combining with servicenow Server script Apis...go for service portal(available from helskinki)

Service Portal

this provides nice page designer with bootstrap grid layout already built in.

it also handles routing for you. we just need to create widgets(basically an angular directive) using widget editor and drag n drop them into page using page designer.

i would say configuring Angular2 is too much effort also it doesnt give native integration with servicenow server script like serivceportal widget.

lets see what others have to say

(please mark helpful/like/correct if it helps)

[MuyiwaSaka]

Hi Dylan. Just curious to know what your eventual solution was. Regards.