Add Now Assist skills to your page

Add skills to enhance your UI Builder page with Now Assist's generative AI capabilities.

Before you begin

Role required: ui_builder_admin

Note:

Skills must be enabled and activated before they can be added to a page. For more information, see:

• Configure skill deployment settings: Enable the skill to make it available for selection
• Activate a skill: Activate the skill so it can be selected

About this task

You can add Now Assist skills to your page, component, or controller. To trigger a skill, you must create an event to execute the skill while passing the appropriate payload. After configuring the required inputs, the skill is ready to use.

In this example, you will:

1. Add a skill to the page
2. Add an input component to capture user text
3. Configure an event for the input component to pass the entered text to the skill and execute it
4. Add a text component to show the skill's output

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Now Experience Framework > UI Builder.
2. Open an experience to work in or create an experience by selecting Create > Experience.
   See Configure how users interact with your applications in UI Builder for more information on creating experiences.
3. Create or open a page.
4. Hover over Now Assist skills in the Data and scripts section and select the + to the right.
5. Select a skill and select Add.
   The following skills are available by default:

   • Generate Content
   • Sentiment Analysis
   • Summarize

   For this example, select Generate Content.

   Tip:

   Select Hide inactive to remove inactive skills from view.

   

   Note:

   Skills that are enabled in Now Assist Skill Kit but not activated in Now Assist Admin appear in the list, but aren't selectable. For more information, see Now Assist Skill Kit and Now Assist Admin console.
6. Select the X in the upper right to close the Edit Generate Content dialog.
7. Select + Add content in the content tree and add a component from the toolbox.
   In this example, add an Input component.
8. Add the Execute event handler to the component that you added in the previous step.
   1. Select the Events tab in the configuration panel.
   2. Select Add handler under Text entered.
   3. Select Execute under Generate Content (1) and select Continue.
   4. Hover over topic and select the bind data icon to configure the input for the skill.
   5. Double-click the fieldValue pill to select it as the input source and select Apply.

      The fieldValue property captures what the user types in the input field. By using this property as the input to the skill, you set the skill to trigger whenever the user enters text.

      

   6. Select Add.
9. Add and configure a second component to display the output for the skill.
   1. In the content tree, hover over Input 1, select the Configure (three vertical dots) icon, then select Add after.
   2. Add a Stylized text component.
   3. Select Cancel to close the preset window.
   4. Optional: Change the HTML tag property to Paragraph (for better readability in this example).
   5. Hover over the Text field in the configuration panel and select the bind data icon .
   6. Select Data resource on the left.
   7. Navigate through the pills by selecting Generate Content, then result, then double-clicking response to complete the selection.
   8. Select Apply.
   
10. Select Save.
11. Select Preview to test the skill.
    

Result

When you view the page and type in the input field, your text input triggers the Generate Content skill to execute and return content on the topic in the input field.