Skill inputs and triggers for Now Assist for HR Service Delivery (HRSD)

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 2 minutes to read
  • Summarize
    Summarized using AI
    This content was generated using new OpenAI-powered functionality. Results are provided on an as is basis and are not guaranteed to be accurate or complete.

    Summary of Skill inputs and triggers for Now Assist for HR Service Delivery (HRSD)

    Now Assist for HR Service Delivery (HRSD) allows you to configure skill inputs and triggers that control how and when specific skills are used within the platform. Inputs specify the data sources such as tables and fields used by a skill, while triggers define the events that initiate skill actions.

    Show full answer Show less

    Key Features

    • Chat Summarization Skill: Configure triggers to generate chat summaries based on specific events, including:
      • Virtual Agent to Live Agent handoff
      • Live agent quick action (/summarize)
      • Live agent ending the chat (updates short description and chat summary fields)
      • Task creation (auto-populates short description and description fields)
      • Option to display chat summaries as bulleted lists
    • Case Summarization Skill: Uses read-only inputs from the HR Case [snhrcorecase] table, including fields such as Description, Priority, Short description, State, Additional comments, and Work notes. Note that case summarization is unavailable for Cancelled or Suspended cases.
    • Resolution Notes Generation Skill: Generates resolution notes using read-only inputs from the HR Case table with fields like Short description, Description, State, Additional comments, and Work notes.
    • Knowledge Article Generation Skill: Uses inputs from the HR Case table including Short description, Description, Close notes, Additional comments, and Work notes to generate knowledge articles.

    Practical Application for ServiceNow Customers

    By configuring these inputs and triggers, ServiceNow customers can customize how Now Assist automates and enhances HR interactions. This enables efficient chat summarization, case updates, resolution note creation, and knowledge article generation, improving HR case management workflows and agent productivity.

    Understanding and setting these parameters allow customers to tailor Now Assist behaviors to their organizational processes, ensuring relevant data is captured and actions are triggered at optimal times.

    Get a quick overview of the skill inputs and triggers for Now Assist for HR Service Delivery (HRSD). By configuring the inputs or triggers for a skill, you can determine how and when a skill is used.

    Overview

    Depending on the selected skill, you can configure the inputs or triggers. These settings determine how and when a skill is used. An input identifies the data that is used for a skill, such as the table and fields that are used to generate a case summary. A trigger initiates an action, such as when the system generates a chat summary.

    Chat summarization skill

    For the chat summarization skill, select the triggers that determine when a chat summary is generated and how a chat summary is displayed.

    The following table lists the triggers that you can configure for the chat summarization skill of the Chat Assist feature.
    Table 1. Triggers for the chat summarization skill
    Trigger Description
    Virtual Agent to Live Agent handoff Chat summary that is generated when the chat handoff is done from Virtual Agent to a live agent.
    Quick action Chat summary that is generated when the live agent performs the /summarize quick action.
    Short description Short description field that is updated for the interaction when the live agent ends the chat.
    Chat wrap-up Chat summary that is generated when the live agent ends the chat. The Chat Summary field is updated for the interaction.
    Bulleted list Chat summary as an unordered list.
    Task creation Short description and Description fields that are auto-populated when a task is created.

    Case summarization skill

    The case summarization skill includes the inputs that identify the table and fields that are used when a case summary is generated.
    Note:
    These fields are read-only.
    The following table lists the inputs for the case summarization skill.
    Table 2. Inputs for the case summarization skill
    Input Description
    Input table HR Case [sn_hr_core_case]
    Input fields
    • Description
    • Priority
    • Short description
    • State
    • Additional comments
    • Work notes
    Note:
    Case summarization is not available for Cancelled or Suspended cases.

    Resolution notes generation skill

    The resolution notes generation skill includes the inputs that identify the table and fields that are used when the resolution notes are generated for a case.
    Note:
    These fields are read-only.
    The following table lists the inputs for the resolution notes generation skill.
    Table 3. Inputs for the resolution notes generation skill
    Input Description
    Input table HR Case [sn_hr_core_case]
    Input fields
    • Short description
    • Description
    • State
    • Additional comments
    • Work notes

    Knowledge article generation skill

    The knowledge article generation skill includes the inputs that identify the table and fields that are used when a knowledge article is generated for a case.
    Note:
    These fields are read-only.
    The following table lists the inputs for the knowledge article generation skill.
    Table 4. Inputs for the knowledge article generation skill
    Input Description
    Input table HR Case [sn_hr_core_case]
    Input fields
    • Short description
    • Description
    • Close notes (for HR cases)
    • Additional comments
    • Work notes