Brad Tilton
It’s Now Experience week on the developer blog, and the Now Experience UI Framework had some significant enhancements and new capabilities in the Quebec release.
UI Builder The biggest and most obvious of these new capabilities is the new version of UI Builder in Quebec. UI Builder is a WYSIWYG web user interface builder that enables developers to build new pages or customize existing pages for web-based workspace and portal experiences using ServiceNow Experience Components and custom web components.
Last week we dove into creating and using data resources in UI Builder by binding the output from a data resource to component properties in order to make our components more dynamic. This week we’ll continue our UI Builder series by looking at the Entity View Action Mapper (EVAM) type of data source.
What if you want to show a data element as a card in a row, list, or a grid view, rather than one of the list components?
We are releasing some UI Builder related content every week during the Quebec Early Availability period. So far we’ve covered how to get started and a quick overview, and all about pages in UI Builder. This week we’ll be focusing on Data Resources.
A Data Resource in UI Builder allows you to fetch data from the instance to the page and then consume that data from a component. Previous to the Quebec release, component authors had to hard code REST or GraphQL queries as well as any data transformations into their components.
As we learned last week, the first thing you’ll do when working with experiences in UI Builder is create or open an experience and create a new page. When you create a new page you’ll be able to add containers, components, data resources, and more to the page.
This week, we’ll look at pages a little more closely and explore pages and their settings, parameters, templates, and variants.
Page Templates When you create a new page in UI Builder, you’ll have the option to create a blank page or a page from a template.
Congratulations to our 2021 Developer MVPs! The ServiceNow Developer Program recognizes a number of developers every year for their contributions to the ServiceNow developer community. 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.
Let’s give a warm welcome to the Developer MVP class of 2021!
Aashish Atrey Alikutty Abdulrazak Anders Figenshow Andrew Albury-Dor Andrew Pishchulin Ankur Bawiskar Ashley Snyder Ashutosh Munot Dhruv Gupta Earl Duque Eric Riemer Jace Benson Jarod Mundt Kieran Anson Maria Gabriela Ochoa Perez Waechter Mark Roethof Muhammad Sharjeel Nathan Firth Nia McCash Paige Duffey Paul Morris Philip Swann Robert Fedoruk Travis Toulson You can also check out the 2021 Community MVPs here.
One of the primary highlights of the Quebec Release, the Now Experience UI Builder is a web user interface builder that lets you see what the final interface would look like as you build new pages or customize existing pages for web-based workspace and portal experiences.
UI Builder Foundations Let’s start with some foundational concepts and terms you’ll need to understand in order to work with UI Builder.
Experiences Creating an experience is the first thing you’ll need when working with a custom UI through UI Builder.
This post is being continually updated with links to our Quebec Release topic blog posts, Break Point podcasts, and Creator Toolbox (CTB), Live Coding Happy Hour (LCHH), and other video content.
Quebec is Released! We here at the developer program are incredibly excited to announce the Quebec Release is now available on personal developer instances!
For this release, we’ll be highlighting a different product, feature, or product area each week for the next couple of months until general availability.
As we bid adieu (or good riddance) to 2020 we here at the ServiceNow Developer Program wanted to highlight our top 10 pieces of content from 2020. In order of oldest to most recent, here they are:
Blog: Source Control and CI/CD Resources - The Orlando release brought some major enhancements to ServiceNow’s source control integration and added some CI/CD capabilities in the form of automated testing and deployment APIs and IntegrationHub spokes.
Here on the developer blog we try to regularly highlight the contributions from our 2020 Developer MVPs. They produce an abundance of great content aimed at ServiceNow developers that I’ve listed below grouped by the content creator.
Nathan Firth Top 5 Features in the Paris Release How to Use GraphQL in ServiceNow & Service Portal spUtil API Reference Cheat Sheet Mark Roethof 50+ (Un)documented Virtual Agent variables (vaInputs, vaVars, vaContext, vaSystem) Q: Help!
The Orlando and Paris releases have brought many new capabilities to the Now Platform allowing developers to implement their own Continuous Improvement and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to accelerate Now Platform development. Those include selective commits, editing outside of Studio, MID server support for the Source Control integration, global app support for Source Control, and APIs and IntegrationHub Spoke subflows and actions that allow developers to automate testing and deployment.
