Manage temporary space closures agentic workflow
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Summary of Manage temporary space closures agentic workflow
The Manage temporary space closures agentic workflow automates the process of temporarily blocking workplace locations for emergency maintenance. When an emergency maintenance case is submitted and assigned to a Workplace Event Planners user, a team of AI agents executes maintenance tasks, blocks the affected room, and relocates any existing reservations to alternate spaces. This workflow supports multi-building and group reservations, ensuring minimal disruption during emergency workplace maintenance.
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Key Features
- Automated Case Handling: AI agents retrieve emergency maintenance case details and identify impacted reservations.
- Location Blocking and Reservation Management: AI agents block the affected location and move or update reservations to other available workspaces.
- Workplace Event Planners Interaction: Notifications and requests for confirmation are sent to Workplace Event Planners via the Now Assist panel’s conversational interface before blocking locations or moving reservations.
- Activity Logging: All actions taken by AI agents are updated in the emergency maintenance request case notes for review by Workplace Event Planners.
- Multi-building and Group Reservation Support: The workflow handles complex reservation scenarios across multiple locations.
How to Access and Use the Workflow
- Navigate to All > AI Agent Studio > Overview > Manage Temporary space closures to open the workflow interface.
- Review and define triggers that activate the workflow when an emergency maintenance case is assigned to the Workplace Event Planners group.
- Enable the Now Assist panel display option to receive AI agent notifications and interact with the workflow via the conversational interface.
AI Agents Involved
The workflow employs multiple AI agents with specific roles:
- Case Retriever: Fetches emergency maintenance and change event case details.
- Reservation Resolution Processing AI Agent: Handles auto-resolution, fetches reservations, and blocks locations as needed.
- Workplace Case Notes Updater: Updates case notes with all workflow actions for transparency.
Trigger Conditions
The workflow triggers automatically when:
- An emergency maintenance workplace case is created or updated.
- The case is assigned to a user in the Workplace Event Planners group.
- The case status is active and the Now Assist panel is enabled.
Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Streamlines emergency workspace maintenance and reduces manual coordination efforts.
- Improves communication and confirmation process via AI-driven notifications in the Now Assist panel.
- Ensures seamless handling of reservations during space closures, minimizing disruption to workplace scheduling.
- Maintains clear audit trails with automatic case note updates for compliance and review.
This team of AI agents temporarily block a location when there’s an emergency workplace maintenance case is submitted.
Manage temporary space closures workflow overview
AI agent executes maintenance tasks, blocks a room for maintenance, and moves any existing reservation to another location when the emergency workplace maintenance requested is assigned to a user in the Workplace Event Planners assignment group. For more information, see Submit an emergency maintenance request.
- Retrieves the case details from the emergency maintenance request.
For more information, see View emergency maintenance case details.
- Retrieves impacted reservation from a location and blocks a location for maintenance.
For more information, see Block a workplace location.
- AI agents notifies workplace event planners with case resolution and summarization using the Now Assist panel conversational interface.
AI agents take confirmation from Workplace planners before blocking a location or before moving a reservation to another location. Workplace Event planners can respond to AI agents queries using the conversational interface of the Now Assist panel. For more information, see Review notifications in the Now Assist panel.
- Updates the emergency maintenance request case notes with all the actions taken. Workplace Event planners can review the activity log to know the actions taken by AI agents.
For more information, see View emergency maintenance case details.
Manage temporary space closures workflow
- Navigate to . For more information, see AI agents used in the Manage temporary space closures workflow.
The Manage temporary space closure Describe and Connect workflow opens.
- Select Define Trigger to review the trigger factor (Emergency Meeting rooms) for this agentic workflow. For more information, see Triggers for the Manage temporary space closures.
- The Select Display option enables the Now Assist panel. For more information, see Select display.
AI agents used in the Manage temporary space closures workflow
The Connect AI agents section in the Describe and Connect workflow displays the AI Agents that are working on the Manage temporary space closure workflow.
The following agents are used to Manage temporary space closures workflow:
| AI agent Name | Description | AI agent tools and resources |
|---|---|---|
| Workplace Case notes | Workplace case notes updater | Workplace case notes update |
| Case Retriever | Case Retriever |
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| Reservation resolution processing AI agent | Reservation resolution processing AI Agent |
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Triggers for the Manage temporary space closures
When an emergency maintenance request is assigned to a user in the Workplace Event Planners group, AI agentic workflow Manage temporary space closures is triggered. In the Define trigger workflow, the agentic workflow begins executing when the trigger meets the following conditions:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | Emergency maintenance case |
| Trigger | Created or updated An emergency maintenance case is submitted and a workplace case is created. When the workplace case is assigned to Workplace Event planners, AI agenticManage temporary space closures workflow is triggered. |
| Table | Workplace Case [sn_wsd_case_workplace_case] |
| Conditions | [Assigned to] [is not empty][Workplace service] is [Emergency maintenance] |
| 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 use case output. When the Now Assist panel option is enabled, the AI agent output or notifications are displayed in the Now Assist panel.
Select this option to receive and review notifications send by AI agents in the Now Assist panel. AI agents send notifications to Workplace Event planners in the Now Assist panel with the case resolution and summarization notes. It asks for Workplace Event planners confirmation before blocking a location and moving any impacted reservations to another available workspace or before updating an existing reservation's date, time, and duration. For more information, see Review notifications in the Now Assist panel.