Having built over a dozen ServiceNow ESS portals, I finally had enough of the issues and limitations and decided to do something about it. What resulted was a month long effort of enhancing the CMS framework to function more like WordPress or other content management systems. I set out with some basic goals:
- Follow best practices
- Use semantic HTML & CSS
- Responsive layouts for mobile & tablet
- Avoid using iFrames
- Don’t touch OOB Macros & UI pages
To accomplish these goals I ended up having to add on quite a bit of functionality such as:
- Custom content types
- Header & footer templates
- Live search
- Event driven notifications
- Bring UI pages into CMS
- Form content blocks
In this video I do a quick demonstration of these enhancements and our latest theme: “Orebro”.
Where can get the codes or update set for this.
Everything you see in this video is documented in independent tutorials on this site. However it’s up to you to implement with no update sets or code available.