Help manage workplace reservations agentic workflow

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  • Updated September 7, 2025
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    Summary of Help Manage Workplace Reservations Agentic Workflow

    The Help Manage Workplace Reservations agentic AI workflow assists Workplace Event Planners in rescheduling existing workplace reservations by updating the reservation’s date, time, duration, and location if needed. This workflow automates the retrieval, analysis, and updating of reservation details linked to change event requests, streamlining the rescheduling process and reducing manual effort.

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    Key Features

    • Automated Reservation Retrieval: AI agents pull reservation details from workplace change event cases assigned to the Workplace Event Planners group.
    • Reservation Analysis and Update: The AI analyzes the existing reservation and updates it with new date, time, and duration. If the original location is unavailable, the AI proposes alternative locations and can move the reservation accordingly.
    • Interactive Notifications and Confirmations: Workplace Event Planners receive notifications and can interact with the AI agents via the Now Assist panel’s conversational interface to confirm location changes or request additional location options.
    • Activity Logging: All AI actions are recorded in the change event request case work notes, enabling planners to review the workflow activity log for transparency.
    • Integration with Now Assist Panel: Notifications and AI outputs are delivered through the Now Assist panel, ensuring planners stay informed in real time.
    • Trigger Conditions: The workflow automatically starts when a change event request related to event planning is submitted and assigned to Workplace Event Planners.

    Key Outcomes

    • Streamlined rescheduling of workplace reservations with minimal manual intervention.
    • Improved flexibility by automatically proposing alternative locations when the original is unavailable.
    • Enhanced collaboration between AI agents and Workplace Event Planners through real-time notifications and conversational confirmations.
    • Comprehensive audit trail of all reservation update activities via case notes.
    • Efficient handling of change event requests related to workplace reservation management.

    Practical Use for ServiceNow Customers

    ServiceNow customers can leverage this workflow to automate the management of workplace reservation changes, particularly in environments with frequent scheduling adjustments. By enabling the Now Assist panel and assigning cases to the Workplace Event Planners group, organizations ensure that AI agents proactively manage reservation updates while keeping planners informed and in control. This results in faster resolution times, reduced administrative overhead, and improved workplace event coordination.

    The Help manage workplace reservations agentic AI workflow enables Workplace Event Planners with rescheduling a planned reservation. AI Agents gather relevant information from a workplace reservation and update an existing planned reservation with a new date, time, and duration.

    AI agents retrieve the reservation from the change event reservation case details. AI agents analyze an existing reservation before updating it with a new date and time. If the old location is not available while updating an existing reservation, AI agents update and move the reservation to a new location. For more information, see Submit a change event request for a reservation.

    A change event request is submitted for updating an existing reservation by a workplace user. A workplace case is created with a new workplace service. The workplace case is assigned to a user in the Workplace Event planners assignment group.

    The team of AI agents autonomously perform the following:
    • Retrieve the change event request workplace case details when it assigned to a Workplace Event planner.
    • Analyze the reservation retrieved from the previous step. If the old location is available while updating a reservation's date, time, and duration, AI agents update the reservation. If the old location is not available for reservation, AI agents move the reservation to a new location while updating the reservation date, time, and duration.
    • Send notification to Workplace Event planners using the Now Assist panel conversational interface.

      Workplace Event planners can respond to AI agents queries using the conversational interface of the Now Assist panel. AI agents take confirmation from Workplace planners before updating a reservation to another location if the old location is not available. It shows three workplace locations. You can select the location or ask the AI agents to show more locations. AI agent provide a link for you to click and navigate to the reservation page to manually select a location of your choice.

      For more information, see Review notifications in the Now Assist panel.
    • Update the change event request case work notes with all the actions taken. Workplace Event planners can review the activity log to see the actions taken by AI agents to update a planned reservation event.

      For more information, see View change event reservation case details.

    For more information, see View change event reservation case details.

    Help manage workplace reservations

    To access the Help manage workflow reservations:
    1. Navigate to All > AI Agent Studio > Overview > Help manage workplace reservations..

      The Describe and Connect workflow is displayed. For more information, see AI agents used in the Help manage workplace reservations.

    2. Select Define Trigger to review the trigger factor (Emergency Meeting rooms) for this agentic workflow. For more information, see Triggers for Help manage workplace reservations
    3. The Select Display option enables the Now Assist panel. For more information, see Select display.

    AI agents used in the Help manage workplace reservations

    The Connect AI agents section in the Describe and Connect workflow displays the AI Agents that are working on the Help manage workplace reservations workflow.

    The following agents are used in the Manage temporary space closures workflow:

    Table 1. Connect AI agents
    AI agent Name Description AI agent tools and resourcesR
    Reservation updating AI agent Reservation updating AI agent Update the reservation.
    Case Retriever Case Retriever Get details of change event case details.
    Reservation analyzing AI agent Reservation analyzing AI agent Get edit link of reservation and alternate space recommendations.
    Workplace case notes updater Workplace case notes updater. Workplace case notes updated for a workplace case created for a change event request.

    Triggers for Help manage workplace reservations

    In the Define trigger workflow, the agentic workflow begins executing when the trigger meets the following conditions:
    Table 2. Existing Triggers
    Field Description
    Name Reservation date change
    Trigger Created or updated

    A Change Event request is submitted and a workplace case is created. When the workplace case is assigned to Workplace Event planners, AI agenticHelp manage workplace reservations workflow is triggered.

    Table Workplace Case [sn_wsd_case_workplace_case]
    Conditions [Assigned to] [is not empty][Workplace service] is [Event Planning]
    Run as assigned_to
    Channel Now Assist panel
    Status Active
    Note:
    When the status is Active, the AI agent is triggered autonomously.

    Select display

    In the Select display workflow, select Display to display the Now Assist panel. Workplace users with the now_assist_panel_role receive notifications for the triggered case. When the Now Assist panel option is enabled, the AI agent output or notifications are displayed in the Now Assist panel.

    Note:
    To view the output from a triggered use case, you should have the now_assist_panel_role.

    Select this option to receive and review notifications by AI agents in the Now Assist panel. AI agents notify Event planners in the Now Assist panel with the case resolution and summarization notes. For more information, see Review notifications in the Now Assist panel.