Theme Builder release notes
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Summary of Theme Builder Release Notes
The ServiceNow® Theme Builder application allows users to customize their visual experience, aligning it with their brand identity. The Washington DC release introduces several enhancements that improve component editing and accessibility compliance.
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Key Features
- Edit Individual Components: Customize components to match your brand and ensure they meet accessibility standards.
- Component-Specific Theme Hooks: Utilize hooks tailored to each component type for precise theming.
- New Feature Messaging: A modal at launch informs users about new features in Theme Builder.
- Open in Theme Builder Button: A new button facilitates easy access to the editor page while customizing UX theme records.
- JSON Code Validation: The system logs errors and alerts users about invalid theme records to prevent incorrect saves.
- Customization of Shape and Typography: View and adjust customizations in the Global and Component style tabs.
- Accessibility Checker: Ensure compliance with color contrast standards as you customize your themes.
Activation Information
To install Theme Builder, customers must request it via the ServiceNow Store. For a complete list of available applications and submission guidelines, visit the ServiceNow Store website.
Key Outcomes
With these updates, users can create a more branded and accessible user experience. The enhancements streamline the customization process and help ensure compliance with accessibility standards, ultimately improving user satisfaction and engagement.
The ServiceNow® Theme Builder application enables you to tailor the visual experience for your users, helping to update the look and feel to be more like your brand. Theme Builder was enhanced and updated in the Washington DC release.
Theme Builder highlights for the Washington DC release
- Edit individual components to better suit your brand and to meet accessibility compliance standards.
- Work with component-specific theme hooks to create a theme tailored to your needs.
See Working with themes in Next Experience for more information.
New in the Washington DC release
- Component editing
- Edit individual components to better suit your brand and to meet accessibility compliance standards. The theme hooks you can edit are specific to each type of component. For more information, see the Accessibility Information section that follows.
- New feature messaging
- Learn about new features via a what's new modal when you first launch the updated version of Theme Builder.
- Open in Theme Builder button
- As of version 3.1, while customizing a UX theme record, an Open in Theme Builder button displays redirecting you to the editor page in a new tab.
- Validation of JSON code for the theme records you create
- As of version 3.1, Theme Builder logs errors and displays an alert for any invalid manual theming updates, helping to prevent saving an incorrect theme record.
- Customize shape and topography values
- As of version 3.1, view your customizations in the Global and Component style tabs.
Activation information
Install Theme Builder by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.
Accessibility Information
- Adjust components to meet accessibility standards
- Use new Accessibility checker capabilities to ensure you're meeting conformant color contrast levels as you apply your own brand and colors to your web or mobile instance. See Adjust components to meet accessibility standards for details.