Employee Slate prompt library
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Summary of Employee Slate Prompt Library
The Employee Slate prompt library provides a comprehensive set of example natural-language prompts designed to streamline interactions across Employee Slate features. ServiceNow customers can use these prompts in the home page chat bar, full-page conversation view, or the contextual assistant on any page. The assistant maintains conversational context, allowing users to refine queries through follow-up prompts within the same chat session.
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Prompt Categories and Usage
The prompts are organized by feature areas to facilitate efficient user engagement and task execution:
- Conversation Management: Commands to open chat views, continue conversations, or switch conversation panels.
- Conversational Catalog and Knowledge: Requests for ordering items, submitting software requests, or retrieving company policies and personal data like vacation days.
- Home Page and Personalization: Navigation commands and widget management to customize personal or manager canvases.
- Tasks and Requests: Prompts focused on viewing and managing approvals, task tracking, and request statuses with filtering and sorting capabilities.
- Notifications: Commands to view, mute, subscribe, or unsubscribe from notifications and manage delivery channels like Slack or mobile push.
- Org Chart and Profile Management: Queries to view organizational charts, find employees, and update profile information such as work location or emergency contacts.
- Employee Communications: Assisting in drafting, targeting, scheduling, translating announcements, and measuring engagement.
- Now Assist Chat and Enterprise Search: Page-aware actions such as approvals, note additions, and enterprise-wide searches with contextual understanding.
- Moveworks AI Assistant: Specialized assistants for reasoning, calendar management, HR record updates, research, document generation, and enterprise search with citations.
- AI-powered Widget Builder: Commands to generate, refine, duplicate, restrict, or undo changes to widgets, enhancing dashboard personalization.
- Admin Console: Administrative prompts for configuring the portal, branding, data sources, assistant selection, and managing feature rollouts.
Cross-Cutting Prompt Patterns
Common phrases such as “Help me with...,” “Show me...,” “Find...,” and “Approve...” enable flexible, context-aware assistance across multiple features, guiding users when exact phrasing is uncertain.
Tips for Effective Prompting
- Begin prompts with action verbs like Show, Find, Approve, Schedule, or Update to clearly express intent.
- Include specific object identifiers (e.g., request, approval, article, meeting) to target precise items.
- Use filters such as time frames or team names to narrow down large result sets efficiently.
- Leverage page context by referencing current items (e.g., “approve this ticket”) for quicker actions.
- Engage in follow-up questions within the same chat session to refine results, as the assistant retains conversational context.
Practical Value for ServiceNow Customers
By utilizing the Employee Slate prompt library, ServiceNow customers can enhance user productivity and engagement through natural language interactions. The library empowers users to navigate services, manage tasks, personalize their experience, and administer configurations with ease, all within a conversational interface that understands context and intent. This results in faster task completion, improved communication, and streamlined administrative workflows.
Example natural-language prompts that you can use across Employee Slate features. Use these prompts in the home page chat bar, the full-page conversation view, or the contextual assistant on any page.
About prompt library
The prompt library groups example prompts by feature area. Use the prompts as written or adapt the phrasing to your context. The assistant retains conversation context across turns, so you can refine results with follow-up prompts in the same chat.
For more information, see Employee Slate for Now Assist.
Conversation-first experience
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| Open the chat | "Open the chat in full-page view." / "Continue my last conversation." / "Switch this conversation to the side panel." |
| Conversational catalog | "Order a new laptop." / "Request access to MS Teams." / "Submit a software request for Adobe Acrobat." |
| Conversational knowledge | "What's our travel policy in EMEA?" / "How many vacation days do I have left?" / "Summarize the security incident response procedure." |
Home page and personalized canvas
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| Navigation | "Take me to the home page." / "Open my personal canvas." / "Switch to the manager canvas." |
| Personalize widgets | "Pin this widget to my canvas." / "Add the org chart widget." / "Remove the announcements widget from my canvas." / "Reset my canvas to default." |
Tasks and requests
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| Approval-focused | "Show my pending approvals." / "What needs my approval?" / "Pull up my approval queue." / "Show approvals waiting more than three days." / "List my overdue tasks" / "Show my critical items" / |
| Task-focused | "List my overdue tasks." / "What tasks do I have due today?" / "Show completed tasks." / / "Sort tasks by priority." "Show my learning tasks" / "Show my IT requests" / "Show my HR requests"/ "What happened to my expense claim?" / "Show my closed requests" / What requests have I submitted? |
| Tasks and requests navigation | "Open Tasks and requests." / "Show only unread items." / "Filter Tasks and requests by Now Assist actions." / "Clear all notifications I've already seen." |
Notifications
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| View and mute | "Show me today's notifications." / "Mute notifications for the next two hours." / "Turn off mobile push notifications." |
| Subscriptions | "Subscribe me to product launch announcements." / "Unsubscribe from the office reopening updates." / "Send my notifications to Slack." |
Org chart and profile
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| Org chart | "Show me my org chart." / "Who reports to Maria Lopez?" / "Find a person named Aaron Patel." / "Show me the people on the platform team." |
| Profile updates | "Open my employee profile." / "Update my work location to Hyderabad." / "Add my emergency contact." / "Change my preferred name." |
Employee communications
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| Author | "Draft an announcement about the office closure on Friday." / "Write a welcome message for new hires in EMEA." / "Translate this announcement into Japanese." |
| Target and schedule | "Target this announcement to employees in Australia." / "Schedule this announcement for Monday at 9 AM." |
| Measure | "Show me the engagement results for last week's announcement." / "Resend the all-hands reminder to people who haven't read it." |
Now Assist Chat
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| Page-aware actions | "Approve this request." / "Add a note to this incident." / "Summarize this knowledge article." / "Check the status of INC0012345." |
| Enterprise search | "Search for Q3 sales playbook." / "Find the latest brand guidelines." / "Show me articles about VPN setup." / "Search SharePoint for the FY26 planning deck." |
Moveworks AI assistant
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| Reasoning and answers | "Compare our company PTO policy with industry standards." / "Summarize the latest HR policy changes." / "Explain my benefits enrollment options." |
| Calendar Management assistant | "Block my calendar tomorrow from 2 to 4 PM." / "Reschedule my 10 AM meeting to 3 PM." / "Find a 30-minute slot with Diego next week." / "Add a Zoom link to my 4 PM meeting." |
| HR record updates | "Update my home address." / "Change my emergency contact to my spouse." / "Update my direct deposit account." / "Set my pronouns on my profile." |
| Research and document generation | "Research Acme Corp's recent news." / "Generate an NDA for Acme Corp." / "Send the NDA to legal@acme.com for signature." |
| Enterprise search with citations | "Search the company knowledge base for laptop refresh policy." / "Find documents tagged with FY26 roadmap." / "Filter results to PDFs from the last 30 days." |
| Switch assistants | "Switch to the Calendar Management assistant." / "Use the Research assistant for this question." |
AI-powered Widget Builder
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| Generate | "Create a widget that shows the next three meetings." / "Build a one-time password entry widget with a 60-second countdown." / "Generate a widget that displays open IT tickets for the user." |
| Refine | "Make the timer turn red when fewer than 30 seconds remain." / "Duplicate the announcements widget." / "Restrict this widget to the HR admin role." / "Undo the last change." |
Admin console
| Category | Example prompts |
|---|---|
| Configure | "Open the admin console." / "Configure the home page layout." / "Brand the portal with our company colors." / "Add a new data source for Enterprise Search." |
| Assistant selection | "Switch the conversational assistant to Now Assist Chat." / "Disable the Moveworks chatbot for the EMEA region." |
| Roll out | "Set the default canvas for the manager persona." / "Roll out Employee Slate to the Sales department." |
Cross-cutting prompt patterns
The following patterns work across multiple features. Use them when you don't know the exact phrasing, and the assistant routes the request to the right capability.
- "Help me with..." (open-ended; the assistant routes the request)
- "What can you do?"
- "How do I...?"
- "Find..."
- "Show me..."
- "Schedule..."
- "Approve..."
- "Cancel..."
- "Summarize..."
- "Switch to mobile view."
- "Send this to my manager."
Tips for effective prompts
- Start with a verb, such as Show, Find, Approve, Schedule, or Update.
- Include the object ID, such as request, approval, article, or meeting.
- Add a filter when the result set could be large, such as today, this week, by team, or by priority.
- Reference the page you're on for contextual actions, such as "approve this" or "update this ticket".
- Ask follow-up questions in the same chat to refine results. The assistant retains conversation context across turns.