Customize Playbook Experience
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Summary of Customize Playbook Experience
The Customize Playbook Experience feature allows ServiceNow customers to tailor the layout of their Playbook Experience using modular components and templates through integrated UI Builder functionality. This customization enhances the experience for agents and fulfillers by providing a structured and intuitive workflow management interface.
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Key Features
- Modular Components: Utilize base system components to create custom experiences, including the Playbook stage picker, activity picker, and activity viewer.
- Playbook Stage Picker: Choose between horizontal and vertical layouts to display stages with details on remaining and in-progress activities.
- Activity Picker: Navigate between activities, expandable based on the selected stage and layout orientation.
- Activity Viewer: Manage activities in either a stacked view or focused view to streamline monitoring.
- Playbook Modals: Include components for cancelling playbooks and adding optional activities, enhancing interactivity.
- UI Builder Bundles: Quickly add comprehensive layout bundles that contain essential components for ease of setup.
Key Outcomes
By customizing the Playbook Experience, customers can expect a more efficient workflow that is tailored to their specific operational needs. This enables better tracking of activities, streamlined navigation, and improved user engagement. Customers can also leverage existing templates for rapid deployment of their custom layouts, contributing to enhanced productivity and user satisfaction within their ServiceNow environment.
Customize the layout of your Playbook Experience with base system modular components, templates, and more via integrated UI Builder functionality.
Components
- Playbook stage picker
- The stages of a playbook can be displayed horizontally or vertically:
- The vertical orientation shows:
- All playbooks for a parent record,
- The stages of each playbook,
- How many activities remain to be completed in each stage, and
- How many activities are in progress for each stage.
In this example, a playbook named Playbook Experience Demo with stages named Assign, Create, Review and Update is shown. The Assign stage has 2 activities left to complete, with 1 in progress. The Create and Review and Update stages don't have blue numbers next to them, so they don't have any activities that are in progress.Figure 1. Vertical stage picker
- The horizontal orientation only shows the stages of a selected playbook. To see the activities of a stage, select the stage.
Figure 2. Horizontal stage picker
Playbooks with more than 5 stages paginate.
Note:The horizontal stage picker only shows you the playbook you are in and its stages, so you can’t navigate between playbooks unless you:- Use a playbook template, or
- Create your own drop-down component with UI Builder.
All playbook templates include a drop-down component to navigate between playbooks, and is auto-populated when you select the Playbook Picker preset.
- Playbook activity picker
The activity picker is where you navigate between activities.
If you're using the vertical stage picker, turning on the activity picker means each stage can be expanded to shows its activities.Figure 3. Activity picker when viewing stages vertically
If you're using the horizontal stage picker, turning on the activity picker allows you to expand or collapse the entire list of activities for the stage you're in.To toggle the Show Stages flag flag on or off, .Figure 4. Activity picker when viewing stages horizontally
- Playbook activity viewer
- The activity viewer is where you manage a stage's activities. You can change the way activities are displayed in this space:
- The Stacked view displays all activities in a stage stacked on top of each other.
Figure 5. Playbook stacked view
- The Focused view displays a single selected activity.
Figure 6. Playbook focused view
- The Stacked view displays all activities in a stage stacked on top of each other.
- Playbook modals
- If you want the ability to cancel playbooks and add optional activities, you must add the Playbook Modals component to your pages. If you use a template, this is already included.
Figure 7. Cancel playbook modal
Figure 8. Add optional activity modal
To start setting up components for your customized Playbook Experience, see Customize a playbook in UI Builder.
Provided UI Builder Bundles
- Focused Vertical
- Focused Horizontal
- Stacked Vertical
- Stacked Vertical
- UI controller
- Presets
- Activity viewer
- Activity picker
- Modals
- Playbook picker
- Stage picker
- Client scripts
To add a bundle to an existing or new UI Builder page, see Add a custom layout bundle to a UI Builder page. If you're creating a new experience and want to add a bundle to a standard record page, see Add a custom layout bundle to a UI Builder standard record page.