Enhanced Requests Experience
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Summary of Enhanced Requests Experience
The Enhanced Requests Experience improves request management within the Employee Center, allowing ServiceNow customers to efficiently find, view, and manage requests. This feature segments requests by type and supports multiple configurable tabs for better organization, such as the defaultFor youandFor otherstabs. It requires Employee Center version 38.0 or later and is available from the Australia release onward.
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Key Features
- Multiple Tab Interface: Allows creation of multiple tabs associated with specific filters to suit organizational needs. A Show more requests button displays additional tabs if they exceed screen size.
- Customizable Filters: Default filters like Status and Updated can be edited, and new filters (e.g., Request Type, State, Location) can be added and linked to tabs to enhance request visibility.
- Draft Requests: Users can save requests as drafts before submission, enabled by default. This can be disabled by setting a system property if desired.
- View Options: Requests are shown in card view by default, with a toggle to switch to list view available from Employee Center version 40 onward.
- Responsive Design: The requests page adapts to different devices, with filters collapsing into a Show more option when needed.
- Role-Specific Views: Managers can see requests for their team and location; employees can see their own requests and those created for them or their location; executive assistants can view requests they created for others.
- Mobile Access: Full Enhanced Requests Experience capabilities are available on the Now Mobile app, enabling users to view, search, filter, and manage requests on the go. This requires opting into the mobile experience.
Practical Benefits
- Improves efficiency and clarity in managing diverse request types through organized tabs and filters.
- Increases flexibility by allowing users to save incomplete requests as drafts.
- Enhances user experience with card and list views, responsive design, and mobile access.
- Supports different user roles by providing tailored views to meet their specific needs.
Improve your request management on Employee Center with the Enhanced Requests Experience that enables you to find and manage requests effectively.
In the Enhanced Requests Experience, requests are segmented by type. You get the For you and the For others tabs by default with the Enhanced Requests Experience. You can also configure other tabs as the functionality supports multiple tab interface. If the numbers of tabs exceed the screen size a Show more requests button displays the rest of the tabs in a list view.
You can edit the default filters Status and Updated available with the default tabs For you and For others. You can also configure new filters to the tabs as required. You can associate tabs to filters according to your organizational requirement.
The default number of requests shown on one page is 15. If it exceeds 15, pagination comes into effect.
The Enhanced Requests Experience let's you create a request and keep it in your Drafts instead of submitting it instantly. It will sit in the Drafts until you're ready for submission.
Drafts is enabled by default. If you want to hide the Drafts tab, mark the system property, Enable Save as draft in esc portal (glide.sc.enable.save_as_draft.portal.esc) false.
The requests are displayed in a card view by default. You can the view toggle icons next to the search bar to switch between card view and list view. The toggle functionality is only available on Employee Center version 40 onwards.
Enhance the visibility of requests by using the Filter by option. You can only have one filtering view for one portal. Filter options can be like Request Type, State, Location, and so on.
The Requests page is available on responsive view too. The filters are displayed with a Show more option when it exceeds the page length.
The Enhanced Requests Experience has improved features for different personas. The experience is scalable, so that admins can create as many tabs as required.
- View requests created by you on behalf of the team.
- View requests created by others for your team.
- View requests created for your own work location, when configured.
- View requests you have created for yourself.
- View requests that are created for you.
- View requests that are created for your work location, when configured.
As an executive assistant, you can view requests that you have created for others.
Enhanced Requests Experience on Now Mobile app
You can get the Enhanced Requests Experience on the Now Mobile app, bringing the full request management capabilities from the Employee Center portal to mobile. Employees can view, search, filter, and manage their requests on the go.
To view the requests on your Now Mobile, you must opt for the mobile experience. For more information, refer to Opt in to the enhanced Enhanced Requests Experience and select the Mobile experience.
To know more about the mobile experience, refer to Enhanced Requests Experience on Now Mobile.