As most of you know, Service Portal has a pretty handy context menu that you can access by simply holding down CTRL and clicking (right click on PC) on a widget. The context menu provides several shortcuts to some of the frequently used configuration options. Note: the “sp_admin” role is required to see the context menu. Adding custom context menu items But did you know you can also add your own options to the list? Open up the Widget Editor and insert the following JavaScript into the Client Script field. [crayon-6622d45b9d8a8571949704/] Now when you view the widget in the portal and you open the context menu, you will see your newly configured menu items.
SCSS Variables in Service Portal
Learn how to streamline your stylesheets in Service Portal by utilizing the full power of SCSS. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through how to use CSS Variables in your widgets, so that they can be overridden in the Theme and Portal records. This is very useful when creating highly reusable widgets, themes or in situations where you have multiple portals sharing a theme. SCSS is a subset of the Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets (Sass) specification and is an extension of CSS. Every valid CSS stylesheet is valid SCSS. SCSS supports the following: Variables Variables are a way to store information that you want to reuse throughout your stylesheet. You can store things like colors, font stacks, or any CSS value you think you want to reuse. SCSS uses the $ symbol to make something a variable. Nesting SCSS lets you nest your CSS selectors in a way that follows the same visual hierarchy of your HTML. Operators SCSS has a handful of standard math operators like +, -, *, /, and %. Mixins A mixin lets you make groups of CSS declarations that you want to reuse throughout your site. You can pass in values to make your mixin more flexible. Functions SASS supports the use of functions by providing some keyword arguments, which are specified using normal CSS function syntax. Quick note: The order of CSS that is shown in the video is based on the Kingston release. In Jakarta, the Theme variables were loaded before the Portal variables. For further reading, check out the following resources: https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/helsinki-servicenow-platform/page/build/service-portal/concept/scss-primer.html https://sass-lang.com/guide https://devhints.io/sass https://www.tutorialspoint.com/sass/index.htm
Service Portal Features of London
By now all of you should have noticed that you can request a personal developer instance of ServiceNow running the latest London release. Also with the new London release comes several new enhancements to the Service Portal. Here's a quick highlight of some of the new features: Faceted Search The Faceted Search widget replaces the Search Page widget and adds support for: Faceted Search Filters Pagination What's awesome: I love that the facets live as part of the search source so that we can customize the facets as well as add custom facets to our search sources What could be improved: The whole search page is a giant widget including the typeahead search and the breadcrumbs. This makes it difficult to customize. What if we have a theme without breadcrumbs? What if I want to move the search? Having the whole page be one giant widget is just not a good idea. It does not improve the typeahead results which is how the majority of users use the search Virtual Agent Enable your users to interact with a chatbot or live agent through various Virtual Agent interfaces. What's awesome: Nice modern interface Integrates nicely with Connect Chat What could be improved: It's not free (requires additional licensing) Takes a really long time to load Guided Tours Create a guided tour for a Service Portal page to guide users through the content step by step. What's awesome: Supports auto launch Supports (limited) HTML Easy to use designer interface What could be improved: No support for page overlays (darkens the page behind the dialog) Dialogs don't stay fixed when the user scrolls the page Automated Test Framework Write automated tests to validate Service Portal forms. What's awesome: We now have support for automated tests in Service Portal What could be improved: So far it's just limited to forms and service catalog Validation Scripts Validate user input in a specific field type using a validation script. My thoughts: As far as I can tell, this validates field types and not tied to a specific table, also would not affect catalog items or record producers... so honestly, I'm not really sure when this would be useful. If you know of some common use-cases, I'd love to hear them in the comments. For further reading, please see the official ServiceNow London Release Notes for Service Portal.
Building a Better Service Portal: Lessons from the Field
Service Portal provides an incredible new opportunity to improve service experience in your organization. It offers a fresh and modern approach to development. But with anything new, there is always a learning curve and some growing pains. Fortunately, with the right knowledge, delivering a new service portal experience to your organization can be a smooth and rewarding journey. After helping dozens of organizations deliver Service Portals, we want to share what works and what doesn't. If you are starting your service portal journey, this session will help you take the right path.
Unlocking Service Portal Widgets
How do you go from hacking a widget together to creating one that is maintainable, easy to understand and performant? You accomplish a lot with Service Portal widgets with a little knowledge of ServiceNow APIs and Angular.js, but too often widget client and server scripts become long and overly complicated. In this session, you will learn practical techniques to make your controller and server scripts more maintainable, flexible and powerful by embracing good coding practices, encapsulation, and decoupling. You can download the widgets used in this video here: https://serviceportal.io/downloads/k18-creatorcon-example-widgets/
Widgets and Demo Portal from our K18 Service Portal Sessions
Due to popular demand, here is a quick video highlighting the portal and some of the widgets we showed during our CreatorCon sessions at Knowledge18. We've made the following widgets and applications available for download: Gamification for Service Portal https://serviceportal.io/gamification-in-service-portal/ Unlocking Service Portal Widgets https://serviceportal.io/downloads/k18-creatorcon-example-widgets/ If you've found this content useful or if you have any special requests for upcoming posts, please let me know in the comments below.
Gamification in Service Portal (Knowledge18 CreatorCon)
Introduction Thanks for attending our Knowledge18 CreatorCon Session. During this session, NewRocket showcased a scoped Gamification application that is available to download free here: NOTE It is required that your version of ServiceNow is running Jakarta or later. This scoped app is not supported on Istanbul or earlier. Components GamificationAPI (Script Include) - Contains the application logic Activities (Table) Badges (Table) Levels (Table) User Badges (Table) User Activities (Table) Gamer (Table) Gamification Points & Badges (Widget) Gamification Event Listener (Widget) Gamification Examples (Widget) Gamification (Page) Driver.js (Widget Dependency) GamificationDriver (UI Script) GamificationTourConfig (UI Script) GamificationDriver (CSS Include) Installation Install & commit the Update Set Navigate to your portal theme record (e.g. Stock) Inside the Header or Footer, embed the Gamification Event Listener widget using the folllowing code: <widget id="gamification-event-listener"></widget> Navigate to the gamification portal page (e.g. /sp?id=gamification) Click Award Points If all has been successful, you should be rewarded with 100 points Included Examples Feature Tour (using Driver.js Library) Social Q&A Configuration Includes "Gamification for Service Portal" Application Menu with the following Modules: Activities - The activities users complete to earn points Badges - Badges are earned based on accomplishments Gamers - An extension of sys_user, stores user points Levels - The levels users can obtain based on number of points To configure the Driver.js Feature Tour, edit the GamificationTourConfig UI Script. Corrections - (6/13/18) The GamificationAPI Script Include needs "Accessible from" set to "All application scopes" The documentation incorrectly lists the app prefix as "x_nero_gamificatio", however it should be "x_nero_gamificati" Additional documentation has been provided on the Gamification portal page (/sp?id=gamification). For more information on the Driver.js library, check out the docs here: https://kamranahmed.info/driver
Let’s grab a drink at Knowledge18 and talk Service Portal
I'm so excited to be speaking at Knowledge again, and this year I'm bringing the whole NewRocket team with me. I will also be scheduling some appointments to meet with any customers interested in talking about Service Portal. Nothing formal, just looking forward to meeting many of you and learning more about how you're using Service Portal. If you're interested in meeting at Knowledge, please click the button below to access my calendar. Let's Meet at K18
Knowledge18 Service Portal Sessions Available Now
NewRocket will be hosting 3 informative talks geared to help you take your service portal to new heights. These sessions are packed with relatable information and actionable takeaways. Make sure to add these sessions to your agenda today because they are filling up fast To schedule you Knowledge18 sessions, go to: https://www.servicenowevents.com/servicenowknowledge18/myevent_home.php Adding Gamification To Your Service Portal Gamification is a great way to add incentives for users to explore and use the service portal repeatedly. In this session, we will demonstrate how to implement gamification in the Service Portal to introduce users to the portal and encourage them to complete certain tasks. DATE / TIME - May 8, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm SESSION ID - CCDT0626 SESSION TYPE - CreatorCon Developer Theater TOPIC - CreatorCon Building A Better Service Portal: Lessons From The Field After helping dozens of organizations deliver Service Portals, we want to share what works and what doesn't. If you are starting your service portal journey, this session will help you take the right path. DATE / TIME - May 8, 5:00 pm - 5:50 pm SESSION ID - CCB0442 SESSION TYPE - CreatorCon Breakout TOPIC - CreatorCon Unlocking Service Portal Widgets In this session, you will learn practical techniques to make your controller and server scripts more maintainable, flexible and powerful by embracing good coding practices, encapsulation, and decoupling. DATE / TIME - May 10, 3:50 pm - 4:40 pm SESSION ID - CCB0371 SESSION TYPE - CreatorCon Breakout TOPIC - CreatorCon
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