Integrated development tools for ServiceNow Studio

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    Summary of Integrated development tools for ServiceNow Studio

    ServiceNow Studio offers integrated development tools that empower ServiceNow customers to build and extend applications efficiently within the ServiceNow AI Platform. These tools cover a broad range of capabilities, including app creation, automation, data management, integration, mobile configuration, and user interface design. By using these tools, customers can develop complex workflows, design user-friendly interfaces, and automate business processes without extensive coding.

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    Key Features

    • AI Builder: Includes AI Agent Studio for creating and managing AI-driven workflows to automate business goals, and AI Skill Kit for customizing Now Assist prompts and skills.
    • Automation Builder: Features Decision Tables to embed business logic, Workflow Studio for building flows, subflows, and actions, and Playbooks to author unified, cross-enterprise workflows and simplify user task views.
    • Data Builder: Provides Form Builder for customizing AI Platform forms and Table Builder for visually designing tables, forms, and flows within a single interface.
    • Integration Builder: Integration Hub - Import consolidates data import configuration, execution, and scheduling into one streamlined interface, simplifying data integration tasks.
    • Mobile Builder: Mobile App Builder allows configuration of how ServiceNow apps appear and function on mobile devices.
    • User Interface Builder: Includes Catalog Builder for creating and maintaining catalog items, Service Portal for managing portal layouts and widgets, Service Catalog for editing various catalog items, Survey Designer to create and publish surveys, UI Builder for designing web user interfaces using modern components, and Workspace Builder to automate processes within one environment.
    • Other Tools: Script Debugger supports debugging server-side JavaScript for users with the appropriate role.

    Key Outcomes

    By leveraging these integrated development tools in ServiceNow Studio, customers can:

    • Accelerate app development with visual and guided builders tailored to different app components.
    • Extend applications with AI capabilities and automate complex workflows without manual coding.
    • Simplify data management and integration through unified interfaces that reduce administrative overhead.
    • Create responsive and user-friendly interfaces for both web and mobile experiences.
    • Enhance productivity with dedicated debugging tools to troubleshoot server-side scripts.

    ServiceNow Studio provides instant access to several tools available in the ServiceNow AI Platform development suite. As you create apps using ServiceNow Studio, you can extend their capabilities with these powerful development tools.

    Development tools

    Use the following integrated development tools to build apps, flows, processes, tables, and more in ServiceNow Studio.

    While some tools have the word "Builder" attached to their name and others don't, all tools listed below enable you to build different parts of apps. Some builders are automation tools, while others enable you to build your user interface. For more information about builders, see Builders in ServiceNow Studio.

    AI

    Builder Description
    AI Agent Studio overview Create, manage, or test AI agents and agentic workflows so that you can create self-executing workflows to help you achieve your business goals.
    AI Skill Kit The Now Assist Skill Kit plugin for Now Assist enables you to create and activate custom prompts and skills for Now Assist.

    Automation

    Builder Description
    Decision tables in Workflow Studio Decision tables in Workflow Studio embed business logic into a series of if-then decision rules. Decision tables read data from inputs and evaluate the data according to specified conditions. When all the conditions for a decision rule are met, the decision table returns one or more results.
    Flows, subflows, and actions in Workflow Studio Flows, subflows, and actions enable process owners to automate work. Build multi-step flows from reusable components without having to code.
    Playbooks in Workflow Studio Playbooks enable process owners to author cross-enterprise workflows and create a single, unified process. You can also use playbooks to provide end users with a simplified, task-oriented view of your process.

    Data

    Builder Description
    Form Builder Customize any ServiceNow AI Platform record or form using Form Builder. Form Builder is accessed most often through Table Builder on the Forms tab.
    Table Builder Design tables, forms, and flows visually using a single user interface.

    Integration

    Builder Description
    Integration Hub Imports

    Integration Hub - Import enables you to configure, run, and schedule your data imports all through a single simplified interface.

    It also consolidates multiple data integration capabilities into a single environment, eliminating the need to create and manage several forms throughout the platform. Its step-by-step experience guides you through the configuration of data sources, target tables, and data mapping. You can schedule your data imports or run them on demand.

    Mobile builder

    Builder Description
    Mobile App Builder Configure how ServiceNow applications display on mobile devices.

    User interface

    Builder Description
    Catalog Builder You can create or edit a catalog item (catalog item or record producer) using a visual and guided experience along with specified restrictions. The catalog builder experience enables you to delegate the creation and maintenance of the catalog.
    Service Portal Create or update the portal page layout and add or remove widgets on the page.
    Service Catalog Create or edit a catalog item, which can be a record producer, an order guide, or a content item.
    Survey designer Create survey categories and questions, configure their details, and publish the survey to specific users or groups.
    UI Builder UI Builder is a web user interface builder. Use UI Builder to build pages for App Engine Studio generated workspaces or custom web experiences using Next Experience Components and custom web components.
    Workspace Builder Workspace Builder enables you to automate processes in a single design environment.

    Other tools

    Builder Description
    Script Debugger The Script Debugger enables users with the script_debugger role to debug server-side JavaScript.