App generation

  • Release version: Washingtondc
  • Updated March 25, 2024
  • 1 minute to read

    • App generation enables developers to kickstart application building through conversation.

    Overview

    The app generation skill lets your developers begin creating applications through a natural conversation with generative AI. They can describe their business process and engage in a back-and-forth conversation with Now Assist to develop an application for your organization. With this feature, your organization can expedite the initial development of a basic app that can then be customized.

    Note:
    Your administrators and developers must be assigned with the admin and now.assist.creator roles to use app generation. For more information about using app generation, see Generate apps with Now Assist for Creator.
    Figure 1. App generation begins
    App generation conversation beginning in the Now Assist panel.

    There are three distinct phases to building apps with Now Assist for Creator using the app generation skill and a fourth phase to verify the app in App Engine Studio.

    Figure 2. App generation workflow
    Infographic that shows the three phases to using app generation, with a fourth on verifying the app in App Engine Studio. For the text description, refer to the text that follows.
    Conversation
    Your developers can chat with Now Assist for Creator to specify the business processes they want in the application including the details on the objectives, users, workflows, and experiences.
    Refinement
    Now Assist for Creator provides a summary of the application requirements based on the information collected during the conversation. The developer reviews each summary and if the requirements meet the application's needs, they move forward with generating the app. If the developer wants to make changes, they can stay in the conversation and keep editing. Now Assist continues to refine the application requirements based on their comments, and provides summaries until the developer chooses to proceed with generating the application.
    Generation
    Now Assist for Creator generates the application and associated components, including the tables, roles, access control lists (ACLs), and record producers.

    The developers can open and verify everything that is generated in App Engine Studio, which is available with Now Assist for Creator. The developer can modify the app to make it suit your organization's needs. For example, the app's functionality can be extended by adding flows and automation, script includes, business rules, and other features.

    For more information, see Now Assist for app generation.

    Availability

    This skill is available in the workflow and product listed below.

    Table 1. Now Assist products and workflows
    Workflow Product
    Creator Now Assist for Creator