question g_scratchpad in flow designer in ServiceNow Studio forum

g_scratchpad in flow designer

sidharthaa — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:41:26 GMT

what we can use in flow designer instead of g_scratchpad object?

Re: g_scratchpad in flow designer

Fabian Kunzke — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:43:32 GMT

Hey,

This is more or less a question on if you should. The flow designer offers the use of variables instead. Feel free to look into that:

https://www.servicenow.com/community/servicenow-ai-platform-forum/flow-designer-scratchpad-equivalent/m-p/1113297

Regards

Fabian

ps.: Technically it is probably doable, but i would rather hand-over the proper variables as flow-inputs and use variables within the flow-designer. [Correction: technically it is not possible]

Re: g_scratchpad in flow designer

Tanushree Maiti — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:19:49 GMT

Hi @sidharthaa

There is no g_scratchpad feature in Flow Designer, and it’s generally unnecessary anyway since you can access data from every step directly in Flow.

Refer: https://www.servicenow.com/community/servicenow-ai-platform-forum/flow-designer-scratchpad-equivalent/td-p/1113297#:~:text=Hi%20James%2C,Does%20that%20make%20sense?&text=Hi%20James%20%2D%20ServiceNow%20released%20the,Enjoy!

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-forum/can-you-have-a-quot-scratchpad-quot-similar-variable-in-the-flow/m-p/1655113#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20direct%20scratchpad,as%20helpful%20if%20it%20helps.&text=Asifnoor%2C,functionality%20for%20down%20the%20road.&text=Okay%2C%20great.,moved%20to%20the%20solved%20list.&text=I%20don't%20think%20this,I'm%20getting%20an%20error.

Re: g_scratchpad in flow designer

Ankur Bawiskar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:24:33 GMT

@sidharthaa

what's your actual question?

g_scratchpad is used in display business rule to pass value to client side scripts etc

But in terms of flow there is nothing as such as flow runs in background

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