Configure Self-service Flashcards
What is used to customize baseline portals?
Service Portal Designer
Why would you build a self service-portal?
To simplify access to information
What are the 5 baseline portals?
- Employee Center /esc
- Service Portal /sp
- Knowledge Portal / kb
- CAB Workbench /cab (Change Advisory Board)
- Instance Security Center /isc
What is a Service Catalog?
A robust ordering system for services and products offered by various departments for users
What organizes Service Catalog into logical groups?
Categories
What roles allow you to manage Service Catalog and its items?
admin and catalog_admin
Can categories in a Service Catalog have parent-child relationships?
Yes
What allows you to create or edit catalog items (or record producers) using a guided and visual experience?
The Catalog builder
How looks the process of Request Management after ordering a Catalog Item?
- Request (REQ#)
- Requested item (RITM#)
- Catalog Task (SCTASK#)
What are Catalog tasks?
Catalog tasks are used to source items and fulfill requests.
When users are able to order an item?
After it is published in the Service Catalog
What are variables?
Variables capture and pass on information about choices a customer makes when ordering a catalog item. Variables help define the structure of a catalog item form that is displayed to the customer.
Are variables local or global by default?
Global
Where do you navigate to create new item or modify existing?
All > Service catalog > Catalog Definitions > Maintain Items
What are the common variables types?
- multiple choice
- select box
- single-line text
- reference
- checkbox
What is a Variables Set?
A container for Catalog Variables, a collection of variables that can be shared between catalog items.
What establishes the sequence for displaying information in a Service Catalog?
The order field. The item with order field 100 displays as first, with 200 second etc.
What are Service Catalog major components?
- Items
- Variables (and its sets)
- Record Producer
- Flows
What is a Record Producer?
A Record Producer is an interface used as an alternative to lists and forms. Appears as simplified forms allowing users to provide information that is translated into task-based records being added or modified in the database
Where can a Record Producer be used?
Anywhere in the platform
What is a Record Producer?
A Record Producer is a specific type of catalog item that allows end users to create task-based records, such as incident records, from the Service Catalog
Can you create requested item records from Record Producers?
No
What is an Order Guide?
An Order Guide assists customers in ordering a complete set of needed items and to help users see item relationships.
Questions can be used to present items to users with only relevant questions and choices.
What does an Order Guide help with?
To assist in determining what the users need and to order multiple, related items as one request.
What does Requested Item records do?
Requested Items manage the delivery of each individual item in the request.
What are Catalog Tasks? SCTASK#
Assigned tasks needed to complete the delivery of each Request Item from start to finish
What are the progress stages for an Requested Item?
- Waiting for approval (In Progress)
- Approved
- Pending (has not started)
- Fulfillment (In Progress)
- Deployment/Delivery
- Completed
What do User Criteria in Service Catalog?
Define conditions that are evaluated against users to determine which users can access Service Catalog items
How can you apply User Criteria in a Service Catalog?
- To single catalog item
- To entire Category of catalog items
Where can you apply the User Criteria from?
- The item form
- The category form
- User criteria form
Can you use templates to create Catalog Items?
Yes
What is a Flow Designer?
A Flow Designer is a non-technical interface for building and enabling process automation capabilities, known as flows.
What automate flows?
Flows automate business logic for a particular application or process such as approvals, tasks, notifications and record applications.
Where do you launch the Flow Designer?
All > Process Automation > Flow Designer
What roles are required to work with the Flow Designer?
- flow_designer
- flow_operator
- action_designer
What does a flow consist of?
A trigger and one or more actions
What do you need to access to create or view a flow as diagrams?
Flow Diagramming View
What does the diagramming view for flows offer?
Features for working with flows in a visual diagram.
With what trigger types does the Flow diagramming view only display?
- Record triggers
- Date triggers
- Inbound Email
- Service Catalog
- SLA Task
Triggers can be:
- Record-based (runs after a record has been created or updated)
- Date-based (runs at the specified date and time or scheduled intervals)
- Application-based (starts a flow when a app-specific condition is met)
What are the flow. components?
- Trigger
- Conditions
What is a trigger in a flow?
An activity that initiates the flow
What is a condition in a flow?
A statement that determines when or how an action runs.
Actions (in a flow) are:
Operations executed by the system, such as looking u a record, updating a field, requesting approval, wait for condition or logging a value.
In Flow Designer, the most recent actions are from the:
Last 7 days for all Flow Designer users
What are the differences between Flow Designer and Workflow editor?
FD is no-code, good for integrations, for SLA task trigger flows, promotes process automation
Workflow Editor is when process requires complex/scripted flow logic, when SLA Timer is required
Process Automation Developers (PAD), Citizen Developer:
enables owners to author cross-enterprise workflows and create a single unified process. It is used to provide end users with simplified, task-oriented view of your process.
What is a Data Pill picker?
It is a field in Flow Designer that opens a search box you can use to dot-walk to select related records
Where can you change the flow in the Service Catalog item form?
In the Process Engine tab
What is a Virtual Agent (VA)?
A Virtual Agent is a conversational platform that helps users obtain information, make decision and perform common tasks within a messaging interface.
Do users have an option to switch to a human agent from Virtual Agent?
Yes
What offers Virtual Agent?
Virtual Agent offers a web-based interface available for:
- Service Portal,
- iOS and Android mobile environments,
- supports Flow Designer and 3rd paty messaging apps through SN adapters for Slack, Teams and Facebook Messenger
What is created when an order is placed for a catalog item?
- REQ# (Request)
- RITM# (Requested Item)
- SCTASK# (Service Catalog Task)
Which module is used to add, update or remove Catalog items?
Maintain Items
What represents questions asked when ordering a catalog item?
Variables
Which module is used to create or edit flow designer flows?
All > Process Automation > Flow Designer
Where is data from a action stored so it can be used in subsequent actions in the fow?
Data Pill
What are the components of a Flow Designer flow?
Trigger and one or more actions