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 streamlines the process for Workplace Event Planners to reschedule existing workplace reservations. It automates retrieving reservation details, analyzing availability, updating reservation dates, times, and durations, and relocating the reservation if the original location is unavailable. This workflow integrates with change event requests submitted by workplace users and facilitates collaboration through the Now Assist panel conversational interface.

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    Key Features

    • Automated Reservation Updates: AI agents retrieve reservation data from change event reservation cases and update reservations with new scheduling details.
    • Location Management: If the original location is unavailable, the AI proposes alternative locations and can move the reservation accordingly, subject to planner confirmation.
    • Interactive Notifications: Workplace Event Planners receive notifications and interact with AI agents via the Now Assist panel, allowing them to confirm location changes or request additional location options.
    • Activity Logging: All AI actions and updates are recorded in the change event request case notes, enabling planners to review the update history.
    • Trigger Conditions: The workflow automatically triggers when a change event request is created or updated and assigned to Workplace Event Planners for event planning services.
    • Role-Based Access: Notifications and AI outputs display in the Now Assist panel for users with the appropriate role (nowassistpanelrole).

    How to Access and Use

    • Navigate to All > AI Agent Studio > Overview > Help manage workplace reservations within ServiceNow to access the workflow.
    • Review and define triggers, such as reservation date changes, to control when the AI agents execute.
    • Enable the Now Assist panel display option to receive AI notifications and interact with agents.
    • Respond to AI queries in the Now Assist panel, including confirming location changes or selecting alternate spaces.
    • Use provided links to manually review or adjust reservations if preferred.

    AI Agents Involved

    • Reservation Updating AI Agent: Updates reservation details.
    • Case Retriever AI Agent: Retrieves details of change event cases.
    • Reservation Analyzing AI Agent: Assesses reservation availability and recommends alternate locations.
    • Workplace Case Notes Updater: Logs actions taken to the workplace case notes.

    Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    • Improves efficiency by automating reservation rescheduling tasks.
    • Reduces manual effort and errors in managing workplace reservations.
    • Enhances communication between AI agents and event planners through conversational notifications.
    • Provides transparency with detailed activity logs for auditing and review.

    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.