App generation

App generation enables developers to kick start application building through conversation.

The app generation skill lets your developers begin creating applications through a natural conversation with generative AI. They can describe their business process and engage in a back-and-forth conversation with Now Assist to develop an application for your organization. With this feature, your organization can expedite the initial development of a basic app that can then be customized.

Note:

Your administrators and developers must be assigned with the admin and now.assist.creator roles to use app generation. For more information about using app generation, see Now Assist for app generation in ServiceNow Studio (Xanadu Store Release 2) or Generate apps with Now Assist for Creator for use with AES (Xanadu Store Release 1).

Figure 1. App generation begins

Conversation

Chat with Now Assist for Creator to specify the business processes you want in the application including the details on the objectives, users, workflows, and experiences.

Refinement in Xanadu Store Release 2

Now Assist for Creator provides a summary of the application requirements based on the information collected during the conversation. Preview the application and check that it’s accurate. If you want to make changes, stay in the conversation and keep editing. Now Assist continues to update the preview tab based on your comments and provides summaries until you choose to proceed with generating the application.

Generation

Now Assist for Creator generates the application and associated components, including the tables, roles, access control lists (ACLs), and record producers.

Verify

Developers verify everything that is generated in ServiceNow Studio. The developer can modify the app to make it suit your organization's needs. For example, the application's functionality can be extended by adding flows and automation, script includes, business rules, and other features.

For more information, see Now Assist for app generation in ServiceNow Studio.

In Xanadu Store Release 1, there are three distinct phases to building apps with Now Assist for Creator using the app generation skill and a fourth phase to verify the app in App Engine Studio.

Figure 2. App generation workflow in Xanadu Store Release 1

Conversation

Your developers can chat with Now Assist for Creator to specify the business processes they want in the application including the details on the objectives, users, workflows, and experiences.

Refinement

Now Assist for Creator provides a summary of the application requirements based on the information collected during the conversation. The developer reviews each summary and if the requirements meet the application's needs, they move forward with generating the app. If the developer wants to make changes, they can stay in the conversation and keep editing. Now Assist continues to refine the application requirements based on their comments, and provides summaries until the developer chooses to proceed with generating the application.

Generation

Now Assist for Creator generates the application and associated components, including the tables, roles, access control lists (ACLs), and record producers.

Verify

Developers verify everything that is generated in App Engine Studio. The developer can modify the app to make it suit your organization's needs. For example, the application's functionality can be extended by adding flows and automation, script includes, business rules, and other features.

For more information, see Now Assist for app generation in AES.

Availability

This skill is available in the workflow and product listed below.

Table 1. Now Assist products and workflows

Workflow	Product
Creator	Now Assist for Creator