Is it possible to dynamically create catalog items through flow designer or through scheduled jobs?

[John Clyde Ap_a]

Would it be possible to dynamically create catalog items through flow designer or through scheduled jobs? How should I approach it?

[Mark Manders · Accepted solution]

You can create any kind of record with scheduled jobs or flow designer, so catalog items too. Question is: why. What are you trying to accomplish? And what did not work when you tried?

If my answer helped you in any way, please then mark it as helpful.

Mark

[John Clyde Ap_a]

Hello Mark,

Thank you for the for the reply. As for your questions:

Why and What: I am trying to dynamically create catalog items based on records from a table. I wanted to dynamically create something like these

and replace the name, image, description based from this table just for showcasing in the catalogs.

As for I tried so far:

I do not yet have in-depth knowledge about SNow so I am a bit confused to where to start and how to properly implement this but it is one of my requirements for an internship and I am eager to learn. From what I've gathered from searching from the forums. Others have suggested to use flow designer or scheduled jobs in which I have a bit of trouble knowing where to start and what are the things needed for it to be accomplished. Others have also said to use Order Guides. There's also not much threads I have found talking about similar problems with me so I am wondering if I am doing something wrong. I am really confused on how to approach and solve the problem.

[Mark Manders]

Sorry, you lost me completely. I really have no idea what you are trying to accomplish and the why question has not been answered. What is the issue you have that needs to be resolved, because either this makes no sense, or I am fully misunderstanding you.

[DrewW]

As long as the workflow is standardized, or you have a way to say these get this and those get that.  After that you are also going to need to use the same variable sets for all of them.  This is something like how the Hardware Catalog works.

You can look at the UI Action "Publish to Hardware Catalog", UI Page "publish_to_product_catalog" and Script include "ProductCatalogUtils" work.

But like Mark was asking, why do you want to do this?  What issue are you trying to solve?  There maybe a better way.