Recommendation rules for an incident in Service Operations Workspace
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Summary of Recommendation rules for an incident in Service Operations Workspace
Recommendation rules in Service Operations Workspace provide predictive suggestions to assist with incident management. These rules are based on solution definitions installed via relevant plugins. Note that the older Recommendation Framework is deprecated and no longer supported; ServiceNow customers are encouraged to use the newer Recommended Actions for ITSM feature by installing the Advanced Recommended Actions for ITSM plugin and procuring the ITSM Pro package subscription. The best practice is to install the Task Intelligence for ITSM plugin alongside the ITSM Pro subscription to access advanced recommendations.
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Field-Level Recommendation Rules
Specific recommendation rules predict values for incident form fields based on the incident’s short description:
- Assignment Group Recommendation: Predicts the Assignment group field value.
- Configuration Item Recommendation: Predicts the Configuration Item field value.
- Service Recommendation: Predicts the Incident Configuration Item field based on service correlation.
Each of these rules requires installing the associated plugin for the corresponding solution definition to enable predictive field population.
Card Group Recommendation Rules in the Recommendations Panel
The Recommendations panel in Service Operations Workspace displays cards grouped by recommendation type, each offering primary and secondary actions to streamline incident handling:
- Knowledge Articles: Predicts relevant articles that can be attached to the incident. Actions include attaching or discarding articles.
- Propose Major Incident: Suggests if the incident should be escalated to a major incident with options to propose and view similar incidents for evaluation.
- Relevant Problems: Provides recommendations for problems that can be linked to the incident, with options to link or discard them.
- Similar Major Incidents: Identifies similar active major incidents for potential linking as a parent incident or discarding the recommendation.
- Similar Open Incidents: Suggests similar open incidents to link as a parent incident or discard.
- Similar Resolved Incidents: Offers similar resolved incidents to assist with investigation and resolution, with options to link or discard.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
By leveraging these recommendation rules, customers can improve incident resolution efficiency, ensure accurate assignment and configuration, and enhance incident linking to related knowledge, problems, and other incidents. This predictive assistance supports faster decision-making and better incident management outcomes within the Service Operations Workspace.
Recommendations for an incident are based on rules defined in Recommendation Framework.
Recommendation Framework is now deprecated and no longer supported or available for new activation. Recommended Actions for ITSM feature provides the latest experience for this functionality. To get the advanced version, you must install the Advanced Recommended actions for ITSM (com.snc.uib.sow_itsm_ra_advanced) plugin and you must procure ITSM Pro package subscription.
For each recommendation rule to work, install the relevant plugin that installs the corresponding solution definition. Based on this solution definition, the recommendation rule predicts values or records for an incident.
For information about the plugins and the corresponding solution definitions, see .
| Recommendation rule | Solution definition | Incident field where the recommendation is available |
|---|---|---|
Assignment group recommendation |
Incident Assignment Predicts values for the Assignment group field based on the short description of the incident. |
Assignment group |
Configuration item |
Incident Configuration Item Predicts values for the Configuration Item field based on the short description of the incident. |
Configuration item |
Service recommendation rule |
Incident Service Predicts values for the Incident Configuration Item field based on the short description of the incident. |
Service |
| Recommendation rule | Solution definition | Associated card group in the Recommendations panel | Primary action for the card group | Other actions for the card group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge articles |
Similar Knowledge Articles Predicts knowledge articles that the current incident can be linked to. |
Knowledge articles | Attach: Attaches the recommended knowledge article to the current incident. On the incident record page, this article is displayed in the Attached Knowledge list of the Related records tab. | Discard: Discards the recommendation and moves it to the History tab in the Recommendations panel. |
Propose major incident |
Major Incident Recommendation Recommends the current incident to be proposed as a major incident. |
Propose major incident | Propose major incident: Proposes the current incident as a major incident. The Major incident state field is set to Proposed for the incident. | View similar incidents: Displays a list of similar incidents related to the current incident. After viewing similar incidents, you can decide if the current incident can be proposed as a major incident. |
Relevant problems |
Similar Open Problems Predicts relevant problems that the incident can be linked to. |
Relevant problems | Link problem: Links the recommended problem to the current incident. On the incident record page, this problem is displayed in the Related Records section of the Details tab. | Discard: Discards the recommendation and moves it to the History tab in the Recommendations panel. |
Similar major incidents |
Major Incident Recommendation Predicts similar active major incidents that the current incident can be linked to. |
Similar major incidents | Add as a child incident: Adds the recommended incident as a parent to the current incident. On the current incident record page,the parent incident is then displayed in the Related Records section of the Details tab. | Discard: Discards the recommendation and moves it to the History tab in the Recommendations panel. |
Similar open incidents |
Similar Open Incidents Predicts similar open incidents that the current incident can be linked to. |
Similar open incidents | Link as a parent incident: Adds the recommended incident as a parent to the current incident. On the current incident record page, the parent incident is then displayed in the Related Records section of the Details tab. | Discard: Discards the recommendation and moves it to the History tab in the Recommendations panel. |
Similar resolved incidents |
Similar Resolved Incidents Predicts similar resolved incidents to help with incident investigation and resolution processes. |
Similar resolved incidents | Link incident: Links the recommended incident to the current incident. On the current incident record page, the linked incident is then displayed as the parent incident in the Related Records section of the Details tab. | Discard: Discards the recommendation and moves it to the History tab in the Recommendations panel. |