Setting up your Alumni Center
Set up your Alumni Center so you can communicate with your former employees or non-employees.
The following plugins must be activated prior to activating the Alumni Center (sn_asc) plugin:
- Human Resources Scoped App: Core (com.sn_hr_core)
- Employee Center (sn_ex_sp)
For more information on requesting activation of a plugin, see Request a plugin.
To set up Alumni Center, you must request activation for the following: Explicit Roles (com.glide.explicit_roles). The Alumni Center uses this plugin to help segregate external users from internal users.
Nota:
The Explicit Roles (com.glide.explicit_roles) plugin must be activated before activating the
Alumni Center (sn_asc). For information on installing a ServiceNow Store application, see Install a ServiceNow Store
application.
- Roles installed
- By activating the Alumni Center [sn_asc] plugin, the following roles install and are required to configure your Alumni Center:
- Alumni Center – Service Portal configuration update
- After upgrading the latest platform version or the Alumni Center Store App version, manually update the following three fields in the Alumni Center – Service Portal record to preserve your customizations. These values do not update automatically.
- Home page: asc_home
- Main menu: Alumni Center Header
- Theme: Alumni Center Coral Theme
- Supported task types
- The base system supports the following task types:
- Collect Employee Input
- Checklist
- E-signature (HR core only)
- Mark when complete
- Take survey
- Upload documents
- URL
- View video
- Adding content
- The Alumni Center uses the same widgets as the HR Service Delivery Employee Center. For more information, see Employee Center widget instance options.
- Load data
- To add alumni users in bulk, use System Import Sets. For more information, see Import sets key concepts.
- Transform and edit
- After loading your file:
- Transform your import set so that it moves to staging.
- Go to Staged Alumni to view what was loaded from your file.
- You can edit the loaded users, ensure unique user IDs, or approve if they look valid.
- From the list view of Staged Alumni, click Import All Approved to start the Import Approved Staged to Alumni scheduled job.