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How to build a Food Recipe App using Creator Studio? #BuildWithCreatorStudio 0 (0)

Posted on by Rafael

Today, Creator Studio: Creating applications without writing code provide a fast and convenient way to develop an application. Whether you’re building a small tool-based application or a big portal, these tools can be very serviceable.

I built a simple Recipe App app using Creator Studio called Gourmet – designed to inspire and guide both novice cooks and seasoned chefs alike. With an extensive library of recipes from around the world, Gourmet simplifies meal planning, shopping, and cooking with easy-to-follow instructions, personalized recommendations, and helpful cooking tips.

Key features include:

  • Recipe Discovery: Explore thousands of recipes by cuisine, dietary preferences, ingredients, or meal type.
  • Step-by-Step Instructions: Detailed cooking instructions with photos and videos to guide you through each step.

The request form captures all the relevant details such as ingredients, quantity, direction and any special instructions. Once submitted the request is automatically routed to an approval group composed by chefs around the world. This ensures all recipes are reviewed and validated quickly. Upon approval, the system creates a task for the chefs to replicate , ensuring the recipe is valid and can be used by anyone.

Requirements

  1. Create a PDI on developer.service-now.com.
  2. The plugin ‘Creator Studio’ is automatically entitled on all ServiceNow instances and all ServiceNow developer portal instances. Check if its installed in your instance.

Lets start

This should be your homepage.

Click in the button “Open Creator Studio” or in the filter navigator find App Engine Studio > Creator Studio. It should look like this:

Click in “Create app” and type the following:

  • Name: Gourmet
  • Description: Gourmet is your ultimate kitchen companion, designed to inspire and guide both novice cooks and seasoned chefs alike. With an extensive library of recipes from around the world, Gourmet simplifies meal planning, shopping, and cooking with easy-to-follow instructions, personalized recommendations, and helpful cooking tips.

The next menu will help you to choose a template to start: Creator Studio Default Template. (documentation here Creator Studio apps and tables).

Lets skip it for now, we need to create a new catalog and new categories after we finish the form.

Time to design the form

We want to create a Catalog Item where the user can request a recipe. You can preview the form or submit for review.

In the form submission tab, you have a view of your table.

Now mark the form as “Ready”. Now its time to confirm if your recent form is publish and available.

  1. Go to the Employee Center.
  2. Try to search for the Recipe Submission Request and you will find your recent form.
  3. Fill up all the fields and press submit. This will create a Gourmet Record where you can confirm using the Creator Studio.

And in less than 10min you just created your first record producer.
Thank you and drop any comment 🙂

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THE SERVICENOW #BuildWith CHALLENGE IS BACK! 0 (0)

Posted on by Rafael

Last year we showed everyone how easy it is to build an application on the #ServiceNow platform using App Engine Studio (AES).

This year the focus will be on the capabilities of #ServiceNowCreatorStudio – this tool is designed with non-developers in mind, offering a guided, intuitive environment for building request-based applications. It breaks down the traditional barriers to app development, making it accessible for business process experts to bring their automation ideas to life. This tool is not intended to replace existing development tools like App Engine Studio, but to complement them by providing a new entry point for app creation.

Transform your ideas into real-world solutions with #BuildWithCreatorStudio. Whether you’re new to ServiceNow, a low-code developer, a business analyst, or a full-stack engineer, anyone is allowed to participate. Ready to get creative and have some fun together? 😁

Join me this year for this exciting challenge. Rise to the #BuildWithCreatorStudio Challenge and earn exclusive swag!

September 9 – October 8th

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Hacktoberfest 2022 [registration open, update] 5 (1)

Posted on by Rafael

It’s time to get your Hack-on because Hacktoberfest starts October 1st! Chuck, Earl and Lauren kicked off the event, you can watch Hacktoberfest – Live Coding Happy Hour 2022-09-30 – YouTube to know how to get your t-shirt. Every year they encourage ServiceNow Developers to participate in DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest event by contributing to a ServiceNow project or repository.

Official website: Hacktoberfest 2022 (servicenow.com)

WHY PARTICIPATE?

  • The more the community is equipped, the more that community can contribute.
  • The more you get used to source-controlled projects, the more you can contribute to any number of open-source projects.
  • You get a free t-shirt (the t-shirt also comes with bragging rights)!
  • Contributors will earn points toward qualifying for next year’s Developer MVP program.
  • Some projects will have immediate benefit to the Developer community

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Everyone! Whether you’re new to ServiceNow, a low-code developer, a business analyst, or a full-stack engineer, anyone is allowed to participate! Every year we are trying to make it even easier to participate!

SERVICENOW AND THE FUTURE OF SOURCE CONTROL

As we transition managing development on ServiceNow away from using update sets towards using source control integration with git, it’s becoming more important for ServiceNow developers to have an understanding of how version control software like GitHub works.

Especially in our low-code interfaces like App Engine Studio, a common way for users to share apps will be through source control. So this is a great way to dip your feet into how source controling apps works!

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?

First, sign up for a GitHub account (if you don’t already have one) and then sign up to participate in DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest.

Next watch this video on pull requests:

Or here is the process, typed out:

  1. Pick a project to work on from the list
  2. In the repository, fork the repo to create your own version of the repository
  3. Follow the guidelines listed in the CONTRIBUTING.md in each repository
  4. For some repos, you’ll want to create a new branch
  5. For some repos, you’ll pull the application repo into your ServiceNow instance
  6. Once you finish your updates, commit them to your branch.
  7. Open a pull request to the original repo (make sure to check the CONTRIBUTING.md file for details)

Let the Hacktoberfest 2022 begin


MY PARTICIPATION

Update 01/10/2022

Last year I was focused on snippets scripting and this year I want to explore a different topic. If you are following the Hacktoberfest 2022 (servicenow.com) blog post, there are multiple projects ServiceNow are encouraging participation in.

One of them is “NEXT EXPERIENCE RECIPES APP”. The idea is pretty simple, it’s to enhance a two-page recipe portal that lets you search and view recipes. What if you could rate or comment on the recipe, send a survey, track variations, etc. Also, if you make a change, go ahead and add a new recipe to the app for everyone. Additionally, if you want to know how to build this experience from scratch, check out CCL1072.

Let’s start then.

  1. First, sign up for a GitHub account (if you don’t already have one) and then sign up to participate in DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest.
  2. Go to https://github.com/ServiceNowNextExperience/hacktoberfest22-recipes
  3. Fork this repo
  4. Go to your ServiceNow instance
  5. Go to Credentials and create a new Basic Auth Authentication. The user will be your GitHub username and for security reasons you need to generate a personal token for your password.
  6. Go to System Applications => Studio
  7. Once Studio loads, select Import From Source Control
  8. Use your forked repo to Import your application
  9. Make updates to the application
  10. In Studio, commit your changes to source control
  11. Submit a pull request to the ServiceNowNextExperience/hacktoberfest22-recipes main branch

Perfect, we know how to get started but what kind of “updates” can we do to be considered as a contribution?

Easy level entry contribution

As ServiceNow said, this is for everyone!

Submit a recipe with a picture!

  1. Go to https://your_instance_name.service-now.com/x_snc_recipe_db_recipe_list.do and click “New”.
  2. Submit a new recipe with a picture
  3. Open the application in App Engine Studio (AES)
  4. In the data section, click the preview button on the Recipe row
  5. Check the checkbox next to the recipe record you added in the recipe list
  6. Right click on the list header and choose “Create Application Files”
  7. Choose “New install and upgrades” and select OK
  8. Via AES or Studio, commit your changes and open a new Pull Request!
  9. Once imported, you can view the experience by going to https://your_instance_name.service-now.com/now/recipe-db/

Let’s wait to get approved and be considered as a contribution. Check regularity DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest webpage.

Medium level entry contribution

I noticed in the table x_snc_recipe_db_recipe there’s space for improvement, for example its missing the nutrition facts.

Example:

Thats going to be my next contribution!

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My participation in the #BuildWithAES challenge 5 (1)

Posted on by Rafael

In response to Enter Our #BuildWithAES Challenge to Snag a T-Shirt! *DEADLINE EXTENDED 2 WEEKS* (servicenow.com), I took the opportunity and learned more about new App Engine Studio. The hype around this challenge was incredible, never seen so many people on board.

The challenge was pretty simple, simply try AES, share your AES knowledge, and show how we built our app with AE. Pretty simple right?

#ServiceNow Challenge #buildwithAES

Create new Experience and commit changes to Git

Check out the challenge here:
https://lnkd.in/d8ebJuF9

#Developer#ServiceNowDeveloper#Wrangu#CitizenDevelopment#LowCode#IRM#GRC#Security#Privacy

Result (still waiting for my t-shirt but it’s coming)

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Ended up on Top 25% of Hacktoberfest 2021 contributors 0 (0)

Posted on by Rafael

In response to my Hacktoberfest 2021 – NOWJedi by #ServiceNowDeveloper participation, I focused on developing code snippets.

You can find all my pull requests here and drill down to Service Portal Widgets.

Record process flow

Create diagram using Highcharts

Creating diagram using GoJS library

File Upload widget

With this participation I ended up in the Top 25% of contributors.

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Hacktoberfest 2021 0 (0)

Posted on by Rafael

It’s that time of year again! Every year we encourage ServiceNow Developers to participate in DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest event by contributing to a ServiceNow project or repository.

Blog entry: Hacktoberfest 2021 (servicenow.com)

WHY PARTICIPATE?

  • The more the community is equipped, the more that community can contribute.
  • The more you get used to source-controlled projects, the more you can contribute to any number of open-source projects.
  • You get a free t-shirt (the t-shirt also comes with bragging rights)!
  • Contributors will earn points toward qualifying for next year’s Developer MVP program.
  • Your code snippets have the possibility of being published in ServiceNow docs. (Be sure to check out the Code Example Program post!)
  • Participants have the chance to win prizes.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Everyone! Whether you’re new to ServiceNow, a low-code developer, a business analyst, or a full-stack engineer, anyone is allowed to participate! This year we made it easier than ever to participate!

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?

First, sign up for a GitHub account (if you don’t already have one) and sign up to participate in DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest.

The ServiceNow Developer Advocates used to pick one thing to tackle each year but this time around we have five ways for you to contribute (all optional)! We hope that with so many options, you will be able to participate in some way and not feel left out.

Next watch this video on pull requests:

5 WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE

There are five projects we are encouraging participation in. To finish your Hacktoberfest goal:

  • You must make four approved pull-requests between October 1 and October 31, 2021.
  • These four pull-requests can be spread out across multiple projects or can all be for one project.
  • From experience, you are more likely to get the t-shirt size you want the earlier you complete the goal! So get to work!

and.. I did it!

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Introducing KICK – “When the supply meets the emergency demand” 0 (0)

Posted on by Rafael

(Whenever I remember that weekend, a tear of joy comes out. What a mix of emotions!)

Let me tell you our story.

Once upon a time a boy saw his life changed by an epidemic in March 2020. That epidemic stopped the world and the country as he knew it changed. Everyone wanted to fight the invisible enemy but the truth was that there wasn’t enough protection for everyone – the problem was something so close to all of us but for him, he saw his friends, family and acquaintances trying to make this world a little better – his mom is sewing scrubs for the NHS (in the video), friends and family have donated old bedsheets and going round collecting them. Then he started asking more questions and looking around, he saw that his old school were building visors and through that he ended up in touch with Carlton (in the video) which later he put him in touch with local councillor who sits on a team of local authority resiliency forum. Before go further, we would like to say a huge thank you to every single volunteer and organisation who has pulled together to solve the current supply chain issues being faced by frontline staff and key workers.

As the knowledge event approaches, ServiceNow surprised us and decided to make the world more digital. For the first time, we had the opportunity to participate in the ServiceNow event. Looking at Bill’s letter, and the response to COVID-19 with Emergency Response applications being made available and even demo instances for non-customers, we were overwhelmed with the opportunity – the CreatorCon Virtual Hackathon could not have happened at a more appropriate time. And.. the same boy who saw his life changed, was the same boy who made us all believe that KICK would be THE idea. We discussed, we planned, we delivered and this was the result. Hope you like it.

Introducing KICK – when supply meets emergency demand.

The platform to effectively manage demand and supply of key items during the crisis. KICK provides in time solutions for independent small businesses to provide click and collect services, available for voluntary groups to provide and manufacture goods and protective equipment. Key workers to source PPE. Requests can be made, stock can be transferred, logistics managed. Our solution easily serves the needs of local, regional and global groups looking to procure or source critical Personal Protective Equipment. We focused the tool on simplicity and usability using some of core platform features that have been bread and butter of ServiceNow.

Features embedded into our app include (but not limited to);
• Agent Workspace.
• Virtual Agent.
• NLU.
• Flow designer.
• Mobile app with barcode scanning.
• Service Portal to provide a simple interface for non-technical users.
• Service Catalog.
• Procurement for stock and transfer functionality.
• Knowledge Management.