Create demands by using the conversational experience

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 2 minutes to read

    • Use the conversational experience of Now Assist in Virtual Agent to create a demand from any application that supports Virtual Agent.

    Before you begin

    Note:
    Depending on your license, you will have access to certain application features, generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents. For more information, see ServiceNow product tiers.
    Ensure that the following tasks are completed:
    • Install an application that supports Virtual Agent.
    • Complete configuring the conversational experiences for demand creation. For more information, see Configure Now Assist Admin features.

    Role required: none

    About this task

    In the application that supports Virtual Agent, for example Employee Service Center, start with a prompt to create a demand in the chat. Through a series of questions, Virtual Agent prompts you to provide information for the questions that you configured for a catalog item. Now Assist in Virtual Agent understands the context and maps the information that you provide in response to a question to an appropriate catalog item, in this case, a demand.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Self-Service > Employee Center.
    2. Select Open chat window.
    3. Enter an instruction to start the conversation with Virtual Agent.

      You can start with a basic instruction such as Create demand or an elaborate instruction that includes the demand's information. The following examples show how each instruction is handled in the chat.

      Instruction Description
      Short: Create demand Virtual Agent starts a conversation to ask more information from you about the demand through a series of questions:
      • What is the name of your demand?
      • What is the reason for this demand?
      • What are the risks associated with performing this demand?

      The information you provide is used to fill in the fields of the Demand form. You can skip answering a question that is related to non-required fields by entering skip.

      Basic instruction to create a demand using Virtual Agent chat in the Employee Center.
      Elaborate: Create a demand with the name Upgrade MyApp and business justification as upgrade and risk of not performing as milestones will be missed.

      Using the context that you provided, Virtual Agent automatically matches it to the relevant field on the Demand form.

      It then instructs you to enter information of only those fields that you haven't provided, such as the risk associated with performing the demand, assumption, and others.

      You can skip answering a question that is related to non-required fields by entering skip.

      Elaborate instruction to create a demand using Virtual Agent chat in the Employee Center.
    4. Review the information that Virtual Agent filled in for the Demand form fields.
      You can choose to make changes or submit.
    5. Optional: Add attachments for the demand.
      The information that you provided is submitted to create a demand. Virtual Agent creates a demand and provides the information such as its number, short description, and state.

      The conversation is now complete.