Google Docs Spoke

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  • Updated September 2, 2025
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    Summary of Google Docs Spoke

    The Google Docs spoke enables ServiceNow customers to manage Google Docs documents directly from their ServiceNow instance. This integration supports common document management tasks such as creating, updating, and retrieving documents and their components. It requires an Integration Hub subscription and a Google Cloud account to operate.

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    Key Features

    • Document Management Actions: Automate Google Docs tasks with available actions including creating documents, adding headers and footers, retrieving document details as JSON, searching document content, and updating documents using HTML content.
    • AI Agents: Provides standalone AI agents to perform document management tasks using natural language processing. These agents can be integrated into agentic workflows to automate objectives involving Google Docs. Customers can clone and customize these AI agents to suit specific requirements.
    • Integration Hub Aliases: Uses connection and credential aliases to simplify management of OAuth credentials and connection profiles. This means credentials do not need to be updated across multiple actions or environments if changes occur.
    • Dependencies and Compatibility: Requires specific ServiceNow plugins such as Flow Designer - Dynamic Inputs, IntegrationHub Action Step - REST, and IntegrationHub Runtime. These may require additional licensing if used beyond the spoke.

    Key Outcomes

    • Streamlined automation of Google Docs document workflows from within ServiceNow, improving efficiency and reducing manual effort.
    • Enhanced flexibility and customization through AI agents that mimic human-like intelligence to manage documents intelligently.
    • Simplified credential management for multi-environment setups via Integration Hub aliases, reducing administrative overhead.
    • Access to a tested and supported integration compatible with Google Docs v1 and potentially later versions.

    Manage documents in Google Docs from your ServiceNow instance.

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    Integration Hub subscription

    This spoke requires an Integration Hub subscription. For more information, see Legal schedules - IntegrationHub overview.

    Spoke version

    Google Docs spoke v1.3.0 is the latest version.

    Supported versions

    This spoke was built for Google Docs v1, but may be compatible with later versions.

    Spoke requirements

    Google Cloud account.

    Spoke dependencies

    If you’re having trouble installing the app, ensure that these dependent plugins are installed:
    • ServiceNow Flow Designer - Dynamic Inputs (com.glide.hub.dynamic_inputs)
    • ServiceNow IntegrationHub Action Step - REST (com.glide.hub.action_step.rest)
    • ServiceNow IntegrationHub Runtime (com.glide.hub.integration.runtime)
    Note:
    Some of these plugins are licensable features and require appropriate licenses, if used outside the spoke implementation.

    Spoke actions

    The Google Docs spoke provides actions to automate Google Docs tasks when events occurs in your ServiceNow instance. Available actions include:

    Category Action Description
    Document Management Create Document Creates a document in Google Docs.
    Create Footer Creates a footer in the specified document.
    Create Header Creates a header in the specified document.
    Get Document Details Retrieves the structure of the specified document as a JSON object.
    Search Text in Document Searches for the required document based on the search text or content.
    Update Document Updates the content of a document with the provided HTML content.

    Available AI agents

    Install Now Assist for Integration Hub and start using the available AI agents. For more information, see Now Assist for Integration Hub.

    This spoke provides standalone AI agents that mimic human-like intelligence to perform tasks in your ServiceNow instance.
    • In the ServiceNow agentic system, you can create an agentic workflow that comprises of a set of large language model (LLM) instructions along with one or more standalone AI agents to execute an objective. See Create an agentic workflow for information about adding AI agents to create agentic workflows as per your requirement and provide the required trigger.

      You can also search for other available AI agents and add them to your agentic workflow. See Find AI agents for more information.

    • You can create a clone of the required spoke AI agent and customize it as per your requirement. See Duplicate an AI agent for more information about creating a clone.
    • See Now Assist AI agents for information about AI agents.

    Available AI agents include:

    AI Agent Description
    Google Docs document management AI agent Manage documents (that is, create document, create header or footer, get document details, search text in document) in Google Docs.
    Looking for an AI agent?
    • There might be AI agents installed with the Now Assist application that are not used in agentic workflows. To learn how to see all agents that are available on your instance, see Find AI agents.
    • To find agents that might not be installed on your instance, visit the AI Agent Marketplace on the ServiceNow Store.
    Note:
    Ensure that the user running an AI agent has the required roles and permissions to access data or perform operations on data in the table that is associated with the AI agent.

    Connection and credential alias requirements

    Integration Hub uses aliases to manage connection and credential information, and OAuth credentials. Using an alias eliminates the need to configure multiple credentials and connection information profiles when using multiple environments. If the connection or credential information changes, you don't need to update any actions that use the connection.

    For information about setting up the spoke, see Set up the Google Docs.