Brad Tilton
Would you like to be a ServiceNow Developer MVP? The Developer MVPs are a collection of ServiceNow developers who are passionate about ServiceNow and inspire other developers by sharing their extensive knowledge openly and inclusively. They help, encourage, and enable developers of all skill levels and types succeed in building and developing on the Now Platform.
Benefits and Criteria In addition to the fame, fortune, and great renown that comes along with being a developer MVP you get a dedicated slack channel where you can bug Brad and Andrew at all hours.
On this past week’s Live Coding Happy Hour show we continued to enhance our cooking management application, which manages and tracks long cooks like smoking meat for 18 hours. The scenario we were looking to solve was that we needed a way to use Siri to create a cook record and then create some additional records during the cook. We ended up creating a subflow, creating a scripted REST API that calls the subflow, and then calling that scripted REST API from an Apple Shortcut.
In case you missed it, CreatorCon 2020 was the place to be for developers of all levels on October 27th. Thousands tuned in to watch, chat with speakers, and engage in live networking sessions aimed at putting a little action back to our digital world, but donb t despair! We’ve got you covered with access to all the content including a special edition of Live Coding Happy Hour hosted by yours truly.
As part of the Now Platform Paris release, ServiceNow has added a new capability called the GraphQL API Framework. This API framework allows you to create a custom GraphQL API to query record data from a component or third-party system.
What is GraphQL and why should I use it? GraphQL is a web query language originally created by Facebook, but now open-source, optimized for client-side development. It aims to solve problems like under and over fetching of data, versioning, and endpoint sprawl.
Our Fall CreatorCon 2020 is now live! Join builders and developers from around the world for keynotes, live sessions, and labs that will help you make app development faster and easier.
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There is some lab and breakout content available today for you to work through in advance of next week’s event. We’ll have live workshop guru office hours next week where you can ask questions about and get help with the labs live with our lab gurus.
Update: There is a brand new Now Experience UI Framework course on the developer site that you should absolutely run through if you’re looking to get setup on the framework
As we’re getting into Hacktoberfest, ServiceNow developers are getting more interested in the Now Experience UI Framework and wondering how to get started. I put together a quick video to show how you go from a freshly installed now-cli to scaffolding and rendering your first component.
The Now Experience UI Framework was introduced in the Orlando release as a ServiceNow JavaScript framework built on web components standards. It enables developers to build custom web components and create a modern UI for users. In the Orlando and Paris releases the UI Framework is limited to customizing Workspace.
While Paris wasn’t a huge release for Now Experience, there are a few enhancements that I’d like to call out around new components.
The Now Platform Paris release is now Generally Available! Now that Paris is GA that means that our early access period is over. During the roughly eight weeks of early access, we’ve posted deep dive blog posts on our pro-dev tooling, upgrades and ATF, Flow Designer, IntegrationHub, mobile, virtual agent, and more. We’ve also covered many of those Paris release features on our weekly Live Coding Happy Hour show.
We’ve gotten some questions lately around Developers MVPs for next year now that we’re nearing the end of 2020, and we thought it would be a good time to post the high level criteria for the 2021 Developer MVPs. The MVPs are a collection of ServiceNow developers who are passionate about ServiceNow and inspire other developers by sharing their extensive knowledge freely. They help, encourage, and enable developers of all skill levels and types succeed in building and developing on the Now Platform.
When I was looking through the content of our Paris release the Conversational custom chat integrations framework, while being a mouthful, jumped out at me. I’ve talked to numerous developers over the past year or two about our Virtual Agent and one of the most common questions is something along the lines of: Can I interact with ServiceNow’s Virtual Agent through a different chat tool outside of the OOB Slack, Teams, and Facebook integrations?
