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# Case action summaries

# Case action summaries {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Xanadu
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* Updated August 1, 2024
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Use a case action summary to provide updates to customers and internal stakeholders
while a case is in progress.
Customer service agents typically use case action summaries to communicate information about
high priority cases and mass outage cases. Case action summaries can include both internal
content and customer-visible information. The summaries available to customers include only the
customer-visible information. The summaries available to internal users include both
customer-visible information and internal content.  
Customer service agents can:

* Create case action summaries for cases that are in progress.
* Preview summaries prior to publishing.
* Publish summaries to customers and internal stakeholders or publish to customers and send email notifications to internal stakeholders.
* Update and re-send summaries as needed.
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Customer service agents use the Send Case Action Summary UI action to
create a case action summary. This action creates a case action summary record and adds the
record to the Related Records section on the Case form in the Case Action Summary field.

Customer service agents can preview a case action summary before publishing it to a case. In
the preview, internal content appears after the customer-visible information and is identified
with a message: The following content is not visible to customers.  
When publishing a case action summary, agents have two options.

* When an agent clicks Publish to Case, the system takes the following actions:
  * Adds the information from the customer-visible fields to the Additional comments field.
  * Adds the information from all fields to the Work notes field.
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* When an agent clicks Publish to Case \& Notify, the system also sends an email notification with the case action summary to the internal users included in the recipient list selected in the Additional internal recipients field.  
  Note:  
  The Publish to Case \& Notify UI action is available when a list has been selected in the Additional internal recipients field.
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Closing a case automatically closes the corresponding case action summary.
**Related tasks**   

* [Create a case action summary](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/meg3AkDsWafpclLiTyRUnA "Create a case action summary for a customer service case.")