Preview components

As you’re creating or managing your theme, you can preview the components available for inclusion on your instance.

Before you begin

Role required: ui_builder_admin

For information on granular roles, see Granular admin roles.

About this task

The components you can preview in Theme Builder were created in the Now Design System. For more information, see Next Experience Components on the ServiceNow Developer Site.

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Now Experience Framework > Theme Builder.
   The Theme Builder landing page displays in the Home page view.
2. Use the Page drop-down list to select the Editor page view.

   Figure 1. Page drop-down list

   

3. From the Theme drop-down list, select the theme that you want to view components for.
4. Select the Component styles tab.
   The component styles are graphically listed.

   

5. You can scroll through the list to view all available components, or filter the list to view specific types of components.
   1. Select the Filter icon .

      

   2. Expand the categories of components that you want to view and select the specific components within those categories you want to view.
      Note:

      For example, to view components for all primary buttons, open the Actionable category then expand the Button component list. Select the Primary, Primary positive, and Primary negative components. The list shows the components that you selected.

      

6. To test how the components render using different background colors, select the Canvas color check box.
7. Select the Background color you want to view and select Apply.

   Figure 2. Canvas color

   

   

What to do next

After previewing and selecting the desired components, edit their properties to fine-tune their appearance. For more information, see Edit components.