Journey designer release notes

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 2 minutes to read
  • The ServiceNow® Journey designer application enables managers and employees to create and track journeys. Journeys include transition plans, such as promotions, offboarding, onboarding, and role changes for employees. Journey designer was enhanced and updated in the Zurich release.

    Journey designer highlights for the Zurich release

    • Usability enhancements:
      • Use the option to cancel Journey Accelerator journeys from the portal.
      • See higher performance in sync between the Opened for and Journey Owner fields.
      • Configure the Journey overview page using the widgets option to hide or show Task Templates and Create a Journey for Your Team widgets.
    • The pre-hire onboarding experience enables a seamless journey for an applicant transitioning from an onboarding pre-hire to a full-time employee.

    See Journey Designer for more information.

    Important:
    Journey designer is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

    New in the Zurich release

    Zurich Patch 1Zurich Patch 7
    Offboarding knowledge transfer plan generation agentic workflow
    The offboarding knowledge transfer plan generation agentic workflow captures and organizes critical knowledge when employees leave. AI agents interact with managers to collect requirements, discover documents from the specified time period, categorize content into meaningful work areas, and facilitate employee review before sharing with successors.
    Generate onboarding ramp-up agentic workflow
    Use the Generate onboarding ramp-up plan agentic workflow to establish an efficient process for generating onboarding plans that are personalized for each new employee joining your organization.
    Table 1. Agentic workflows
    Agentic workflow name Description
    Generate onboarding ramp-up plan AI agents work together to generate personalized plans that are designed to ramp up the knowledge and skills of new employees who are beginning to embark on their onboarding journey.
    New third-party AI model provider options available for all AI applications
    Google Gemini and AWS Claude are available for generative AI skills and AI agents, in addition to Now LLM Service and Azure OpenAI.
    Zurich Early Availability
    Configure the journey overview page
    As an admin, you can now configure the journey overview page and hide the Task Templates and Create a Journey for Your Team widgets.

    UI changes

    Coral theme
    Coral is now the default theme for new portal, web, and mobile experiences with Next Experience or Core UI enabled. This theme provides a fresh look and feel, featuring brand-neutral illustrations to enhance your user experience. A dark theme option is available for web and mobile experiences.
    Cancel Journey Accelerator Journeys
    Journey owners having access to Journey Accelerator only journeys now have a Cancel option instead of the Delete option in the Employee Center portal.

    Deprecations

    Activation information

    Install Journey designer 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.