Lists view

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  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Lists view

    The Lists view in the Network Inventory Workspace offers ServiceNow customers a centralized interface to access and manage telecommunications network inventory classes and functions. Located on the left side of the workspace, it enables quick navigation to essential inventory tasks and classes, streamlining network asset management and operational activities.

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    Key Features

    • Access to Network Inventory Classes: Easily browse and work with core inventory components such as Sites, Inventory, Inventory Number Allocation, Services, Inventory Models, Inventory Templates, Inventory Capacity, Import, Administration, Changes, and Procurement.
    • My Lists Tab: Allows creation of customized or variant lists tailored to specific operational needs for quicker access and organization.
    • Filtered Lists: Categories within the lists pane enable efficient filtering and selection of network inventory classes and tasks.
    • Role-Based Access: All users can view selections in the Lists view; however, administrative functions require assigned admin roles for write or delete privileges, ensuring secure management of sensitive configurations.

    Key Outcomes

    • Efficient Network Inventory Management: Users can manually create and update network asset instances, define relationships, and manage network sites and data centers to maintain accurate and comprehensive network records.
    • Capacity and Procurement Integration: Calculate physical entity capacities and integrate procurement processes through bill of materials creation linked to Hardware Asset Management.
    • Modeling and Template Use: Define and import inventory models and templates to standardize network asset instantiation and maintain consistency across the inventory.
    • Configuration and Change Management: Configure the Telecommunications Network Inventory application and instantiate network inventory designs, supporting controlled updates and lifecycle management.

    You use the Lists view to access the inventory classes and functions to perform the Network Inventory tasks.

    From the Lists view, on the left side of the Network Inventory Workspace, you can access most of the Telecommunications Network Inventory classes and functions. To access the Lists view, select the list icon (List icon).

    From the My Lists tab, you can create a separate list or a different version of the existing list.

    Figure 1. List view
    List view in Telecommunications Network Inventory Workspace.

    In the lists pane, you can quickly access classes and tasks by using the filtered lists under different categories.

    You can access the following classes:
    Table 1. Network Inventory classes
    Class Details
    Sites View listings of network sites and data centers. Update or create site details. To learn more about network site, see 7447e942391b4f60c1be8f590255f7d82484edbc.dita. To learn more about data centers, see Define the datacenter details.
    Inventory Manually create the individual instances of your network assets and define their relationships to each other. To learn more, see Manually create and review your network asset instances.
    Inventory Number Allocation Manage your virtual local area networks (VLANs) or link aggregation groups (LAG) by using the inventory number allocation feature in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application. To learn more, see Inventory number allocation.
    Services Manage and model your networks using services in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application. To learn more, see
    Inventory Models Create the metadata for the inventory models and then define their relationships to each other for network asset instantiation. To learn more, see:
    Network Inventory Templates Create the inventory and default templates and then define their relationships to each other for network asset instantiation. To learn more, see:
    Inventory Capacity Calculate the capacity of physical entities in your network. To learn more, see Capacity management.
    Import Import your models an templates using Import in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application. To learn more, see Import models and templates.
    Administration Configure the Telecommunications Network Inventory application. To learn more, see Configuring Telecommunications Network Inventory.
    Note:
    All selections in the Lists view are accessible to all user roles, including the following selections under the Administration node. However, only those users with an assigned admin role have write or delete access privileges in the administration functions.
    Changes Instantiate your network inventory using design and assign. To learn more, seeDesign and assign.
    Procurement Create the bill of materials to procure the network assets. To learn more, see Telecommunications Network Inventory integration with Hardware Asset Management.