Document Services release notes

Release version: Yokohama
Updated January 30, 2025
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The ServiceNow® Document Services application provides a broad range of services that are related to document management, such as creating, maintaining, and converting documents, as well as integrating with third parties like Microsoft SharePoint. Document Services was enhanced and updated in the Yokohama release.

About Document Services

  • Improved PDF generation that includes accessibility support.
  • Accelerate documents insights with instant summaries for highlights and quick insights, interactive Q&A, and FAQs.

See Document Services for more information.

Activation and other requirements

Important:
Multi Provider Document Services Framework is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.
Activation information

Document Services is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is active by default.

Document Management is available with activation of the Document Management plugin (com.snc.platform_document_management). For more details, see Activate Document Management .

Multi Provider Document Services Framework Install Multi Provider Document Services Framework by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

Accessibility and localization

Accessibility information

Added accessibility support for PDF document generation. PDF accessibility tags are now available to help users who rely on screen readers to navigate, understand, and interact with these generated PDF documents. For more information, see PDF generation and accessibility.

January 2026

The ServiceNow® Document Services application provides a broad range of services that are related to document management, such as creating, maintaining, and converting documents, as well as integrating with third parties like Microsoft SharePoint. Document Services was enhanced and updated in the Yokohama release.

What's changed

Summarize button.
The Summarize button was changed to the Ask Now Assist button.

May 2025

The ServiceNow® Document Services application provides a broad range of services that are related to document management, such as creating, maintaining, and converting documents, as well as integrating with third parties like Microsoft SharePoint. Document Services was enhanced and updated in the Yokohama release.

What's changed

Subflows for Shared drives for Google Drive.
Added Spoke subflows for Shared drives in Google Drive.

Yokohama

The ServiceNow® Document Services application provides a broad range of services that are related to document management, such as creating, maintaining, and converting documents, as well as integrating with third parties like Microsoft SharePoint. Document Services was enhanced and updated in the Yokohama release.

What's changed

Pop-up window
Added a pop-up window for list and form export with a check box that enables you to export an individual record or a list of records into a PDF format. The PDF includes accessibility support.
PDF generation and accessibility
Export a collection of records or a single record into a PDF format. New system property was added for better accessibility.
Workflow migration for Managed Documents
Improved usability, low code accessibility, and feature parity due to the newly configured workflows.​