Make a copy of an existing playbook with the same trigger, stages, activities, and experience configurations as the original. Edit the duplicated playbook to quickly create a working variation.

Before you begin

  • Activate playbooks for your appropriate application.
  • Familiarize yourself with the tables and relationships that your application uses for the playbook that you want to create.
  • Make sure to familiarize yourself with any features that your business uses to automate operations on the ServiceNow AI Platform, such as flows, subflows, and actions.
  • Learn how to get started with ServiceNow® Process Automation.
  • Role required: admin or playbook.admin

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Process Automation > Workflow Studio > Playbooks.
    The Playbooks builder appears.
  2. Select the playbook you want to duplicate.
  3. Check the box next to the playbook that you want to duplicate.
    Only one playbook can be duplicated at a time.
    The Duplicate button displays.
  4. Select Duplicate.
    The system makes a copy of the selected playbook and opens Duplicate playbook modal for the new playbook.
  5. Fill in the playbook properties.
    OptionDescription
    Label Enter a unique, user-facing name for your playbook. This name appears during playbook runtime.
    Application Choose an application scope that you want your playbook to run in. Selecting Global lets your playbook run in any application scope. For more information, see Application scope.
    Description Optionally, enter some descriptive details about your playbook.
    Trigger type Specify what causes your trigger to fire.
    Table The table with the record operations that you want to trigger your playbook. This field cannot be edited.
  6. Edit the playbook stages and activities to fit the new playbook.
  7. Select Save.