Space Management properties

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Space Management properties

    Space Management properties in ServiceNow Yokohama release enable customers to configure default settings for floor plans, parsing, and overall space management. These properties help customize the appearance and behavior of interactive floor plans, parsing of geoJSON files, and space data handling to better fit organizational needs.

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    You can manage these settings via Space Management > Map Configuration > Properties.

    Floor Plan Properties

    • Logo and Title: Configure the logo and title that appear on the interactive floor plan and workbench header.
    • Default Campus: Option to use the user’s location as the default campus when available.
    • URL Copying: Allow or restrict copying of URL links from the workbench.
    • Compass Display: Enable or disable the compass at the top-right of the floor plan for directional orientation.
    • Label Length and Highlight Color: Control maximum label length before truncation and the highlight color for selected spaces.
    • Filter Colors: Customize colors used for applying filters and availability filtering on the workbench, enhancing visual differentiation.
    • Search and Rendering Limits: Set maximum numbers of search results returned per level, campus, and other campuses, as well as maximum spaces per zone for editing, ensuring optimal performance and usability.

    Parsing Properties

    • Field Preservation: Choose whether to preserve existing field values or overwrite them when parsing geoJSON files for buildings, levels, and spaces.
    • Class Name Preservation: Decide if the sysclassname of spaces (such as bathrooms or cubicles) is retained or updated during parsing. Updates occur only if both preservation flags are set to “No.”
    • Area Parsing Handling: Options to preserve existing area values, overwrite them from area files, or ignore area files altogether. Area roll-ups are recalculated post-parsing regardless of these settings.

    Space Management Properties

    • Base Area Unit: Configure the system base area unit for facilities space tables to use either meters squared (true) or feet squared (false), according to organizational standards.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    By configuring these Space Management properties, customers can tailor floor plan visuals, improve map parsing accuracy, and optimize search performance within the workbench. This enables better space utilization, clearer visual cues, and consistent data handling aligned with organizational policies.

    Space Management Properties are available to configure floor plan, parsing, and space management defaults settings. You can control default settings like the color for selected space, compass on a floor plan, and logos and titles to appear.

    Space Management organizes properties into these sections:
    • Floor Plan
    • Parsing
    • Space Management

    Navigate to Space Management > Map Configuration > Properties.

    Floor Plan

    Property Description
    The logo to use for the header of the interactive floor plan [facilities.management.fvw.workbench.logo] Click to select a logo that appears in the top, left corner of an interactive floor plan.
    The title to show on the workbench [facilities.management.fvw.workbench.title] The title to show on the workbench.
    • Type: string
    • Default value: Workbench
    Use user's location as the default campus when available [facilities.management.fvw.default.campus] The location of the user is used as the default campus when available.
    • Yes: Use the location of the user.
    • No: Do not use the location of the user.
    Allow copying a URL link when available on the workbench [facilities.management.fvw.allow.copy.url] Allow copying a URL link when available on the workbench.
    • Yes: Allow copying of a URL.
    • No: Do not allow copying of a URL.
    Default to showing the compass on the floor plan [facilities.management.fvw.show.compass] Determines if a compass appears in the top, right corner of a floor plan to provide directional orientation.
    The maximum length allowed for a label before using ellipses [facilities.management.fvw.max.label.length] The maximum number of characters allowed for a label before using ellipses.
    • Type: integer
    • Default value: 30
    The color to use for highlighting the selected space on the floor plan map [facilities.management.fvw.highlight.color] The color that can be used for highlighting a specific space on the floor plan map.
    • Type: string
    • Default value: #F5F500
    The colors for applying filters to the workbench [facilities.management.fvw.filter.colors] The colors available for applying filters to the workbench.
    • Type: string
    • Default value: #278ECF; #4BD762; #FFCA1F; #FF9416; #D42AE8; #535AD7; #FF402C; #83BFFF; #6EDB8F; #FFE366; #FFC266; #D284BD; #8784DB; #FF7B65; #CAEEFC; #9ADBAD; #FFF1B2; #FFE0B2; #FFBEB2; #B1AFDB
    The colors for availability filtering on the workbench [facilities.management.fvw.availability.colors] The colors for availability filtering on the workbench.
    • Type: string
    • Default value: #71e279; #fcc742; #278efc; #f95050; #00A0A6; #fc8a3d; #00FFFF; #b1afdb
    Maximum number of search results to return per level on spaces tab in workbench [facilities.management.fvw.max.results.per.level] Maximum number of search results to return per level on spaces tab in workbench.
    • Type: integer
    • Default value: 20
    Maximum number of search results to return per campuses on spaces tab in workbench [facilities.management.fvw.max.results.per.campus] Maximum number of search results to return for campuses on spaces tab in workbench.
    • Type: integer
    • Default value: 20
    Maximum number of search results to return for other campus on spaces tab in workbench [facilities.management.fvw.max.results.per.other.campus] Maximum number of search results to return for other campuses on spaces tab in workbench.
    • Type: integer
    • Default value: 20
    Maximum number of search results to return when searching for tasks in workbench [facilities.management.fvw.max.requests.per.search] Maximum number of search results to return when searching for facilities/move requests tabs in workbench.
    • Type: integer
    • Default value: 200
    Maximum number of spaces per zone to render for the zone edit tab [facilities.management.fvw.max.spaces.per.zone] Maximum number of spaces per zone to render for the zone edit tab.
    • Type: integer
    • Default value: 50
    Maximum number of tasks to return per level on workbench [facilities.management.fvw.max.requests.per.level] Maximum number of search results to return per level on spaces tab in workbench.
    • Type: integer
    • Default value: 20

    Parsing

    Property Description
    Specifies whether we should preserve the field values of records when parsing geoJSON files if the record already exists [facilities.management.fvw.geojson.parsing.preserve.fields] Determines how to save the field values of existing records when parsing geoJSON files or to delete them.
    • Yes: Do not change when parsing new map.
      • The building name.
      • The level name, level abbreviation, and the main level flag.
      • The space name and internal name.
    • No: Use values from latest geoJSON file.
    Specifies whether we should preserve the field values of records when parsing geoJSON files if the record already exists [facilities.management.fvw.geojson.parsing.preserve.fields] If the space exists, specifies whether the sys_class_name of a space is preserved when parsing geoJSON files.
    • Yes: Save
    • No: Update
      Note:
      The sys_class_name (fm_bathroom, fm_cubicle, and so on) are only updated if both parsing properties are set to No.
    Specifies whether we should preserve the sys_class_name of a space when parsing geoJSON files if the space already exists [facilities.management.fvw.geojson.parsing.preserve.sys_class_name] Specifies how to handle area parsing.
    • Preserve Existing Area: Saves the area space when the current value is greater than 0.0001 in the Area field in the Space form.
    • Overwrite Area: Always updates the area of a space from an area file.
    • Ignore Area Files: Does not parse any existing area files within the map set.
      Note:
      Regardless of the flags, area roll ups are calculated after parsing.

    Space Management

    Properties Description
    The system base area unit for facilities space tables. Set to true to use meters squared, or false to use feet squared [facilities.management.fvw.area.unit] The system base area unit for facilities space tables. Set to true to use meters squared, or false to use feet squared.
    • Type: true | false
    • Default value: false