Goal Framework for SPM release notes

  • Release version: Store
  • Updated June 11, 2026
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    Summary of Goal Framework for SPM release notes

    The Goal Framework for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) on the ServiceNow Store enables organizations to effectively track and manage strategic goals and targets. It facilitates real-time monitoring of goal progress by automatically collecting and aggregating target actuals within the ServiceNow AI Platform. The framework supports associating goals and targets with organizational entities, work items, and planning items, enhancing alignment between work and strategy.

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    Key Features

    • Flexible target breakdowns available daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly, supporting cumulative and non-cumulative distributions.
    • Graphical visualization of target progress with an easy interface to enter or update actuals and view historical updates directly from the target side panel.
    • Support for negative target actuals and the ability to extend targets without data loss.
    • Enhanced target and goal state management with new state options such as Cancelled and the ability to associate targets with organizational entities.
    • Integration with planning and work items, allowing association of goals and targets to these entities with auto-population of primary goals and targets.
    • Improved role-based access, including a specific role for business stakeholders to access goals within the Strategic Planning Workspace.
    • System properties management for goal-specific configurations available to users with administrative roles.

    Key Updates and Fixes

    • Continuous enhancements to ACLs and platform directives to ensure secure and compliant access control.
    • Improvements to actual value consistency, especially when modifying target distributions and handling of target start dates.
    • Fixes addressing scope issues with project and demand entities to ensure accurate target associations.
    • Refinements to user experience such as removing deprecated fields, streamlining target breakdown creation, and introducing migration jobs to support seamless upgrades.
    • Bug fixes related to actual value updates, check-in due date handling, and target field synchronization with planning items.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    By implementing the Goal Framework for SPM, customers can expect improved visibility into how strategic goals are progressing, aligned with real work efforts, and better control over target management. The framework’s breakdown intervals and automation reduce manual tracking overhead, while new visualization and update features enhance user engagement and accuracy. Security and role management improvements ensure that appropriate stakeholders have access to relevant goal information, supporting informed decision-making across the organization.

    Version history for the Goal Framework for SPM on the ServiceNow Store.

    Important:
    For details on system requirements and family compatibility, view the application listing on the ServiceNow Store website.

    Version history

    Version 2.8.0 - June 2026
    Changed: Updated platform directives for Cobalt Raven ACLs and scoping bypass.
    Version 2.7.0 - March 2026
    • New:
      • Added anAssigned Entity field for Targets, enabling association of targets with an organizational entity.
      • Added aCancelled state option for Goals and Targets.
      • Updated reference fields to display only active Strategic Plans and Strategic Priorities.
    Version 2.6.0 - December 2025
    • Changed: Users with the sn_gf_goal_admin role can update system properties specific to Goals.
    • Fixed: Fixed value of target's actuals when target automation is enabled for PA indicator target source.
    Version 2.5.0 - August 2025
    • Changed:
      • Goals marked inactive will not be displayed in the Goals list when searched for in the Primary goal/Parent goal reference fields.
      • Goals can now be associated with product model, valuestream, strategic program and initiative from their respective reference fields in the Goals list view.
    Version 2.4.1 - May 2025
    Fixed: The Check-in due date is not updated when the Actual value in a breakdown is cleared.
    Version 2.4.0 - February 2025
    • Fixed:
      • Actual value consistency when target distribution is changed from cumulative to non-cumulative.
      • Support of negative numbers in target actuals to display in the progress tab of the target.
      • Actuals handling on moving target start date to a future date.
    Version 2.3.0 - November 2024
    • New:
      • Ability to have daily, weekly, and monthly breakdowns of targets apart from quarterly and yearly.
      • The Progress tab in the target side panel displays a graphical visualization of the target's progress over the target's duration.
      • Ability to easily enter or update actuals for the target through the side panel and cell context menu.
      • Ability to view historical updates of target actuals.
      • Activity stream is enabled in the Target and Goals full details record page.
      • Target distribution dropdown to provide cumulative/noncumulative target value distribution over the time period.
      • Ability to extend targets without any loss of data.
    • Changed:
      • The Breakdown interval field has been removed and target breakdown creation is driven only by the Check-in frequency field.
      • Migration job (Migrate Breakdown Interval To Checkin frequency) to enable upgrade customers for a seamless transition from breakdown interval to check-in frequency.
      • Ability to modify the unit of measure, start value, final target value, check-in frequency, and target value distribution without any data loss.
    • Removed: The Breakdown interval and Cumulative target fields are deprecated.
    Version 2.2.3 - August 2024
    • Fixed:
      • The Primary target field in the planning item gets updated when target field is updated in the existing record in the Goal/Target Relationship related list.
      • The Target value of the yearly breakdown (for target type minimize) displays yearly target value.
    Version 2.2.2 - June 2024
    Fixed: Defect fix to manage scope issues for ppm entities such as demand and project.
    Version 2.2.0 - May 2024
    • New:
      • Ability to associate work or planning items to either targets or goals.
      • The Target field has been added to the Goal/Target Relationship (m:m) table to support an association of a target with work.
      • The Primary target field has been added to all planning item tables to support an association of a target with planning item.
      • Auto-populate the Primary goal when the Primary target field is populated for a work or planning item.
    • Changed:
      • The Goals Relationship (m:m) table has been renamed to Goal/Target Relationship.
      • The Primary goal field has been renamed to Primary on the Goal/Target Relationship table.
      • The "Actual Value Source Configuration" section has been renamed to "Target Automation". Also, the Automate actual value option has been moved to the Target Automation section on the Target form.
      • The default value for the Cumulative target field has been changed to true on the Target form. The Target value is cumulatively distributed across the quarters for cumulative targets.
    • Fixed: Contributors of the target can edit target breakdowns and actual values.
    Version 2.1.0 - November 2023

    New:

    • Ability to manage targets cumulatively over quarterly or yearly intervals.
    • Added the sn_gfa.target_breakdown_decimals system property to set the desired number of decimals to be visible on the target breakdown values.
    • Added the sn_apw_advanced.spw_goal_user_read role to Business Stakeholder [business_stakeholder] users, so that they can access the Goals page within Strategic Planning Workspace, by default.
    Version 2.0.0 - August 2023
    New:
    • Ability to set quarterly intervals/breakdowns for long-term targets to easily update and manage the targets.
    • Ability to add remarks to capture the highlights for the actual value update.
    Version 4.1.2 - June 2023

    Fixed: Addressed internal build quality issues.

    Version 1.1.1 - May 2023
    Internal mandate related to ACLs.
    Version 1.1.0 - February 2023
    Goal Framework for SPM (Strategic Portfolio Management), formerly known as Advanced Goal Framework, empowers leaders to better track how work contributes to strategy and monitor goal progress in real-time by enabling target actuals to be collected and aggregated automatically within the ServiceNow AI Platform.