https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/tags/flow-designer/ Recent content in Flow Designer on ServiceNow Developer Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 31 Aug 2023 08:00:00 -0600 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/vancouver-fd/ Thu, 31 Aug 2023 08:00:00 -0600 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/vancouver-fd/ Ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time of the year - it’s time for your bi-annual list of Flow Designer improvements! In this article, we will not only be covering what changes have been made to existing aspects of the product but also what has been added to its list of abilities. Without further ado, let’s dive in! Updates Quality of Life Enhancements To kick things off, we’ve got some general improvements made to the product as a whole - some reflected in the UI, some not. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/utah-fd/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:00:00 -0600 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/utah-fd/ Over the course of it’s last ten version upgrades, Flow Designer has blossomed and matured into the automation powerhouse it is today. Even with the great strides that have already been made, Utah welcomes additional, novel functionality into Flow Designer that deserves a spotlight. Updates Associated Flows First, let’s draw some much-deserved to the backbone of Flow Designer - Actions! Actions are all of the pieces that make up a Flow, automating everything from creating child Tasks to integrating with third party applications. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/san-diego-flow-designer/ Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/san-diego-flow-designer/ The San Diego release brings us many powerful and cool tools in Flow Designer. Please, stop asking the question “When is Flow Designer going to have parity with legacy workflows?” We are SO past that point. Let’s take a look at a few of the new capabilities you get with Flow Designer in San Diego. Try Waaaaaay back in the Rome release (ok, last summer), we introduced a way to address failed flows, subflows, and actions with an Error Handler block at the bottom of the screen. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/flow-vs-subflow/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/flow-vs-subflow/ Flow vs Subflow A few months ago you might have “met” me when you read my blog post on GlideRecord vs GlideRecordSecure. For those that haven’t read that blog post, let me introduce myself! I’m Brittany, a Sr. Software Engineer at ServiceNow. I work on the backend of the Applicaton Template Framework. Templates power App Engine Studio and allow customers to quickly create experiences, logic, data and security functionality in their applications without writing any code. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/break-point-029/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/break-point-029/ Flow Designer is a great low-code way to automate your proceses, and IntegrationHub is the perfect companion to connect systems together. Both have been around for several releases - so what’s new in the Rome release? I’ve got the person who can tell us in this episode of Break Point. Topics 00:00 Welcome and introduction 03:54 Flow Designer 10:00 IntegrationHub 13:00 Introspection 16:01 OpenAPI Support 18:57 Single platform 21:44 New in Rome 24:11 Process Automation Designer 27:18 A couple last things 29:39 On the roadmap 37:31 Takeaways 39:11 Contact info 39:51 Outro Subscribe to Break Point Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Stitcher TuneIn RSS Check out the other ServiceNow podcasts. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/rome-flow-designer/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/rome-flow-designer/ Rome is upon us! Today we are going to look at what is changing in Flow Designer. Be sure to check out the Rome Release Resources post to see what else is coming in Rome and how to upgrade your PDI. Check out the release notes for Flow Designer here and all of Rome’s release notes here. Performance Especially on large flows (as in, flows that have more than 100 actions), you will see loading times in Rome that are four times faster than in Quebec! https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/tn88/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/tn88/ The Rome release is coming! This is your chance to find out what hot new platform features are coming to make building on the platform easier than ever before. Join us as we take a look at some new features as well as updates to your favorites to make them even better! Topics 00:00 Welcome and introductions 06:14 App Engine 12:27 WebUX 19:34 Development and configuration 24:14 Workflows and integrations 28:55 Security 32:03 Platform foundation 36:57 Poll and Q & A 40:35 Takeaways and next episode 42:25 Reference information 42:50 Final Q & A Links Docs: Rome release notes Break Point podcast Community Developer portal Now Learning About: TechNow is a monthly show for ServiceNow admins, developers, and builders on a wide variety of platform features. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/creatortoolbox-build-a-notes-app-in-ui-builder/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/creatortoolbox-build-a-notes-app-in-ui-builder/ On this episode, join Brad and Chuck as they build a front-end for a Notes app using out-of-the-box functionality in UI Builder. They’ll attempt to replicate the functionality from the Creating Custom Widgets Service Portal training on the developer site. Topics 00:00 Start 02:13 Intros and announcements 04:12 Topic overview 06:42 Screenshare start - laying out the components 15:24 Client state parameters 16:48 Getting data from the server 19:42 Clicking a row 22:05 More client state parameters 24:54 Sidebar - Javascript double-bars 27:16 Updating the record 28:00 Adding a refresh list client script 29:21 Adding an Update button 35:00 Adding a New button 40:56 Debugging 43:42 Getting a default note 51:42 Sidebar - Helpers 53:23 Summary and Signoff Links Component docs UI Builder Bytes About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/creatortoolbox-flow-designer-scripting/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/creatortoolbox-flow-designer-scripting/ On this episode, join Brad and Chuck as they discover the low-code capabilities of Flow Designer. Watch and explore some examples how you can use light scripting in Flow Designer actions to get the results you need. Topics 00:00 Start 01:40 Welcome and introductions 03:40 Topic/problem introduction 06:05 Screenshare and app overview 08:02 Calculating the line item amount with a new flow 12:54 Scripting on a field value 16:28 Making fields read-only 20:28 Creating a custom action 29:48 Implementing the custom action 34:49 Q & A 37:35 Code snippet 39:10 Recap 40:20 Announcements 42:27 Send off Links Docs: Execution order of scripts and engines (Q) About: Creator Toolbox is a weekly show provided by the ServiceNow Developer Program. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/2021-recent-learning-content/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/2021-recent-learning-content/ Recent Learning Modules We are always looking to add relevant learning content to the Developer Site. At the end of the 2020, we released three new learning modules: Data Policies Notifications in Flow Designer Data Stream Actions NOTE: These links are for the learning modules on Quebec, which went into Early Availability on January 21. Use the release selector on the page to switch to Paris if you are working on the Paris release. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/break-point-016/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/break-point-016/ ServiceNow Developer Advocate Andrew Barnes joins me to talk about his favorite Quebec developer features. Quebec is the latest release with a lot of goodness you won’t want to miss. Topics Introduction UI Builder Record Producer action Script tracer Command Line Interface Application customization Flow Designer Flow Designer content filtering (Paris) DevOps & CI/CD Ending Links Email Developer Portal Product documentation Twitter Community LinkedIn Listen Subscribe to Break Point Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Stitcher TuneIn RSS Check out the other ServiceNow podcasts. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/quebec-ih-whats-new/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/quebec-ih-whats-new/ It is ServiceNow’s new release season! With the Quebec release in Early Access, we will show some enhancements targeted around being more effective and efficient as a developer. To get access to these new things, you have to upgrade! This article will be about three new features in IntegrationHub. To view the whole list, check out the release docs. REST API Trigger A new trigger type has emerged! There have been several times when I created a flow and needed to front end that with a Scripted REST API (SRAPI). https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/quebec-fd-whats-new/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/quebec-fd-whats-new/ It is ServiceNow’s new release season! With the Quebec release in Early Access, we will show some enhancements targeted around being more effective and efficient as a developer. To get access to these new things, you have to upgrade! This article will be about three new features in Flow Designer. To view the whole list, check out the release docs. Flow Designer New Look and help Flow Designer has been updated to a new, modern look. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/break-point-010/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/break-point-010/ ServiceNow Principal Product Manager, Brian Bimschleger joins to talk about all things Flow Designer. From the history, comparisons to legacy workflow, and where it’s going in the future. Listen Subscribe to Break Point Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Stitcher TuneIn RSS https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/lchh-srapi-subflow-2020-10-06/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/lchh-srapi-subflow-2020-10-06/ 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. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/stop-writing-code/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/stop-writing-code/ Stop writing code! Ok, ok! That might be a LITTLE dramatic. We don’t need to fully stop writing code, just stop writing some of your code. At the very least, start asking yourself “should I really be writing this in code?”. Have you had time to sit down and check out Flow Designer yet? Seriously, it’s going to replace Workflows and if you’ve caught an episode of Live Coding Happy Hour lately, it is truly becoming the go-to tool! https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/paris-fdih-json-parse/ Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/paris-fdih-json-parse/ IntegrationHub week is still going strong! The last two new Paris related features I will highlight on the blog will be the Payload Builder API and the JSON Parser action step. JSON Parser Building and extending spokes is one of my current favorite things to develop. One of the most common parts of integration is handling the response. Introduced in the New York release was the XML Parser step. With the Paris release, the other main format, JSON, is handled with the JSON parser step. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/break-point-002/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/break-point-002/ Join us as we cover a few of the new developer features in the Paris release. Chuck is joined by special guest ServiceNow Sr. Software Engineer, Dave Slusher. Dave is a familiar name (and voice) to the developer community. For several years he was a former Developer Advocate and co-host of Live Coding Happy Hour and TechNow. One detail - this discussion covers a lot of the Flow Designer and IntegrationHub features - fear not! https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/paris-fdih-connection-management/ Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/paris-fdih-connection-management/ It is ServiceNow’s new release season! With the Paris release in Early Access, we will show some enhancements targeted around being more effective and efficient as a developer. To get access to these new things, you have to upgrade! This article will be about a new feature in IntegrationHub. To view the whole list, check out the release docs. Connection Manager Dashboard The connections dashboard is a new interface inside Flow Designer to manage connections. https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/paris-ghost-actions/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:00:00 -0400 https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/paris-ghost-actions/ I’ve got three more Flow Designer enhancements to make your lives a bit easier. They are: Action instance ordering Ghost actions Duplicate action instance Action instance ordering The first is pretty straight forward. Prior to Paris, action numbering was “outline based”. Every time you added a new if, for each, or other action that created an indent level, a decimal was added on to your action numbers. While this may seem innocuous at first, it could make inline scripting challenging when referencing action 3.