Field Service Management release notes

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Field Service Management release notes - Australia Release

    The ServiceNow® Field Service Management (FSM) Australia release introduces significant enhancements to improve the efficiency of managing field service operations. This release focuses on empowering Field Service Managers with mobile capabilities, optimizing scheduling and dispatch, refining appointment booking, and enhancing capacity management. Key integrations and AI-powered features further streamline workflows and improve productivity.

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    Key Features

    • Dispatcher Workspace Enhancements: Support for multiple time zones, live traffic maps, flagging multiple tasks, calendar overtime indicators, customizable popovers, and quick task editing improve dispatcher efficiency and visibility.
    • Field Service Manager Mobile: Managers can now manage technicians, create tasks, view analytics, and handle personal events remotely via mobile devices, enabling work from anywhere.
    • Schedule Optimization: Enhanced run summaries, integration management, intraday event filtering, high-volume scheduling improvements, and buffer duration settings provide greater scheduling accuracy and performance.
    • Appointment Booking: Advanced lead-time and cut-off logic, overbooking for priority cases, holiday-aware scheduling, guaranteed slot availability, and task dependency consideration ensure flexible and reliable appointment management.
    • Capacity and Reservations Management: Technicians can be associated with demand channels on recurring schedules, enabling precise modeling of shifts and regional strategies with filtering during scheduling processes.
    • Smart Assessment and AI Features: Smart assessment templates support versioning; AI Lens uses image recognition to auto-populate assessment fields, reducing manual entry for technicians.
    • Now Assist for FSM: Generative AI capabilities facilitate conversational shift management and task handling, improving operational responsiveness.
    • UI and Configuration Updates: Calendar resource loading is now system property-controlled, improving workspace performance and customization.
    • Plugin Management: Several FSM plugins have been migrated to store applications for streamlined upgrades and ongoing enhancements. New mobile management plugins are introduced, while some older plugins are planned for deprecation.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    • Enable Field Service Managers and dispatchers to operate efficiently with enhanced mobile and workspace tools.
    • Improve scheduling accuracy and flexibility through advanced optimization and booking configurations that consider real-world constraints such as holidays, task dependencies, and technician preferences.
    • Leverage AI-powered automation to reduce manual data entry and expedite field assessments.
    • Gain deeper insights with analytics dashboards and run summaries to monitor scheduling health and outcomes.
    • Adapt scheduling and capacity management to complex workforce scenarios with demand channel associations and recurring shift patterns.
    • Benefit from improved integration with Customer Service Management and Project Portfolio Management for seamless cross-application workflows.
    • Prepare for future updates by understanding plugin deprecations and migrations to the ServiceNow Store, ensuring smooth upgrade paths.

    Next Steps

    ServiceNow customers upgrading to the Australia release should activate the new Field Service Manager Mobile and Workforce plugins to maximize mobile management capabilities. Review the updated Dispatcher Workspace features and configure Schedule Optimization settings to align with operational priorities. Update appointment booking configurations to utilize advanced lead-time logic and overbooking options when needed. Finally, plan for plugin migrations to store applications to maintain ongoing support and enhancements.

    The ServiceNow® Field Service Management (FSM) application enables your organization to efficiently manage Field Service operations including work order dispatch, scheduling, and mobile workforce enablement. Field Service Management was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.

    Field Service Management highlights for the Australia release

    • Increase productivity by Field Service Managers, who can do their work from anywhere on their mobile device with Field Service Manager Mobile.
    • Allow overbooking in priority cases, consider holidays at the territory level, enable flexible sourcing for work and travel times, and consider task dependencies when scheduling or rescheduling appointments through advanced lead-time management.
    • Determine appointment availability by using territory through APIs, without providing specific contact or location information.
    • View run summaries in Schedule Optimization to understand what was evaluated during scheduling, including objectives, constraints, travel mode, and assignment outcomes.
    • Review the Field Service Management features and activation plugins now available through the ServiceNow Store application. For more details, see the "Changed in the Release" section.

    See Field Service Management for more information.

    New in the Australia release

    Dispatcher Workspace
    Dispatcher Workspace now enables you to perform the following tasks:
    Field Service Manager Mobile
    Field Service Managers can do their work from anywhere on their mobile device, including the following tasks:
    Locations on personal events
    See locations for personal events regardless of where they're created in Field Service Management applications including Dispatcher Workspace and Field Service Manager Mobile.
    Completing work on the ServiceNow Agent mobile application
    • Generate work summary reports and capture signatures in them at the work order task level along with the existing work order level. Additionally, you can view responses and score information for the smart assessment questionnaires in the work summary report.
    • Perform asset audits for the technician's personal stockroom to verify and reconcile assets between a physical stockroom and the data on the ServiceNow instance.
    Respond to a reviewed work order task
    View and resubmit smart assessment questionnaire responses that need additional information, enabling more informed and timely corrections of responses from job sites.
    Schedule Optimization
    Enhance scheduling accuracy and performance with Schedule Optimization
    • View comprehensive details for all optimization runs to quickly identify issues. Access standardized information about run status, included tasks and qualifiers, unassigned tasks with explanations, and the objectives and constraints applied during each optimization.
    • Manage integrations more easily by configuring options to enable or disable third-party map providers beyond the default provider.
    • Ensure only relevant tasks are processed by removing intraday events that don't meet specified criteria from both scheduled and prioritized optimization runs.
    • Speed up high-volume scheduling by splitting groups or territories into smaller sets that process simultaneously. View how they are distributed using the Job Distribution column in both batch and intraday runs.
    • Improve scheduling accuracy by introducing a Window End Buffer Duration field on the Work Order task record that enables you to configure a buffer duration that extends optimization beyond the defined window end so tasks are retained in the schedule.
    Appointment Booking
    Use Appointment Booking to perform the following tasks:
    • Ensure better alignment with your operations by defining advanced lead time and cut-off logic through APIs or extension points. You can implement a custom script through an extension point based on job type, time of day, and day of week.
    • Accommodate emergencies or priorities even if the capacity or appointment slots are full by enabling overbooking of appointments.
    • Configure appointment slots to consider the holiday settings for a territory and display the available slots accordingly.
    • Ensure guaranteed appointment slots by configuring availability checks to be performed at the time of slot retrieval so that any slot displayed is assured to be bookable without needing further capacity validation during the appointment booking.
    • Ensure an accurate calculation of the duration for a task while booking an appointment by defining work and travel duration either in the appointment schedule configuration or in the schedule override configuration.
    • Determine appointment availability using territory and demand channel mapping when contact or location details are not provided.
    • Consider task dependencies while booking or rescheduling appointments and display the slots for the successor tasks after the estimated completion time including the defined lag time for the predecessor task.
    ServiceNow product tiers
    The ServiceNow AI Platform now brings you a new AI experience with three licensing tiers available:
    • Foundation: AI basics to deliver insights
    • Advanced: AI to boost productivity across relevant use cases
    • Prime: Act autonomously with all AI assets and create your own

    Depending on your entitlements, you will have access to certain application features, generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents.

    UI changes

    Configure resources to load
    Collapse mode on Dispatcher Workspace is now controlled by a system property that determines the number of resources loaded.

    Changed in this release

    The following plugins are planned for deprecation in the C release. Beginning with the Australia release this plugin will be migrated to a store application. Upgrade your instance to Australia or later release versions and the store applications will be automatically installed.
    Beginning with the Australia release, the following applications have been moved to the . Any application enhancements will be delivered through the related store app.
    Google maps ID
    The google.maps.map_id system property enables Field Service Management to use Google Maps for cloud-based map styling, vector mapping, and advanced markers. You must obtain your own map ID.

    Deprecated features

    Starting with the Australia release, the sn_fsm_disp_wrkspc.calendarCollapsedBehavior property has been removed and its behavior is now controlled by the sn_fsm_disp_wrkspc.dispatcher_workspace.calendar_resources_page_size property, which determines the number of resources loaded on the page.

    Activation information

    Field Service Management is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is active by default.

    Plugin information

    New plugins

    The following plugins are new in Australia:

    • Field Service Manager Mobile (com.snc.fsm_manager_mobile). For details, see Activate Field Service Manager Mobile . Mangers can manage their technicians and tasks using their mobile device.
    • Field Service Manager Workforce (com.snc.fsm_manager_workforce). For details, see Activate Field Service Manager Workforce . Oversee agent schedules, manage resources, optimize territory coverage, and handle crew tasks and assignments to ensure efficient and effective coverage.
    Plugins planned for deprecation

    The following plugins are planned for deprecation in a future release.

    The following plugins are planned for deprecation in the C release. Beginning with the Australia release, this plugin will be migrated to a store application. When you upgrade your instance to at least the Australia release, the store applications will be automatically installed.
    • Advanced Appointment Booking (com.snc.advanced_appointment_booking)
    • Field Service Marketplace (com.snc.fsm_marketplace)
    • Marketplace Core (com.snc.marketplace_core)
    • Field Service Management Intelligent Task Recommendations (com.snc.fsm_task_recommendations)
    • Field Service Management Scheduling Flows (com.snc.sn_app_fsm_scheduling_flows)
    • Intelligent Task Recommendations (com.snc.task_recommendations)
    • Application Common Configuration (com.snc.app_cmn_config)
    • Field Service Capacity Management (com.snc.fsm_capacity_management)
    • Field Service Territory Planning (com.snc.fsm_territory_planning)
    • Field Service with Service Locations support (com.snc.fsm_service_locations)
    • Sales Mobile Common (com.snc.sales_mobile_cmn)
    • Technician driven sales with Field Service (com.snc.fsm_technician_sales)
    • Territory Planning (com.snc.territory_planning)
    • Field Service Mobile (com.sn_fsm_mobile)
    • Field Service Quality Management (com.sn_fsm_quality)
    • Quality Management (com.sn_quality)
    • Field Service Contractor Management (com.snc.fsm_contractor_management)
    • Beans.AI Spoke (com.sn_beans_ai_spoke)
    • Map Integrations for Field Service (com.snc.app_fsm_map_integr)
    • Schedule Optimization (com.snc_schedule_optimization)

    Related ServiceNow applications and features

    Customer Service Management
    The Customer Service Management (CSM) with Field Service Management plugin (com.snc.csm_fsm_integration) integrates the Field Service Management and ServiceNow® Customer Service Management (CSM) applications to enable you to view account and contact information on work orders and work order tasks in the Field Service Management application.
    Project Portfolio Management
    Field Service Management integrates with the ServiceNow® Service Portfolio Management application to enable you to create work orders directly from project tasks.
    Workspace
    ServiceNow® Workspace is a graphical user interface that provides multiple tools on one page, including the tools that agents use to find, research, and resolve issues. CSM Configurable Workspace and CSM Agent Workspace are Customer Service-specific implementations that provide tier-1 agents with the tools needed to respond to customers and resolve cases.