Advanced Work Assignment (AWA) release notes

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 1 minute to read
  • The ServiceNow® Advanced Work Assignment (AWA) application automatically assigns work items to your agents based on their availability, capacity, and optionally, skills. AWA was enhanced and updated in the Zurich release.

    AWA highlights for the Zurich release

    Use AWA with an inbox card in Workspace without an existing interaction or work item.

    See Advanced Work Assignment for more information.

    Important:
    AWA is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

    New in the Zurich release

    Use AWA without existing interaction or work item
    Use AWA with an inbox card in Workspace without an existing interaction or work item.
    New interaction record field
    A new interaction record field was added to indicate whether this interaction is related to a third-party provider.

    Activation information

    AWA is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is available with activation of the Glide Advanced Work Assignment plugin (com.glide.awa). For details, see Activate Advanced Work Assignment.

    To use the External routing functionality on your instance, you must activate the External Routing Support plugin (com.glide.awa-external).

    Browser requirements

    Advanced Work Assignment doesn’t support mobile devices, Internet Explorer, or Microsoft Edge. Instead, use Microsoft Edge - Chromium or one of the other supported browsers that are listed in Browser support.