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.