ServiceNow knowledge base
ServiceNow is a cloud-based platform that provides IT service management (ITSM) and various enterprise service management solutions. It helps organizations streamline their workflows, automate tasks, and improve overall efficiency across different departments like IT, HR, finance, and customer service.
The ServiceNow knowledge base contains knowledge articles from any ServiceNow table that can be used by agents.
Prerequisites
Before you create a ServiceNow knowledge base data source, you need to ensure you have configured ServiceNow credentials in Administration > Credentials.
Learn how to create ServiceNow credentials on this page: ServiceNow.
Adding a ServiceNow knowledge base data source
To add a new ServiceNow knowledge base data source,
Go to Build > Data sources > External integrations.
Click the Add external integration button;
Next, click the ServiceNow knowledge base card and provide the following information:
Name the data source;
Select existing credentials to ServiceNow;
Add a description for the data source;
Select the Main language of the articles, either English or French.
Type an SQL filter to filter the articles of the ServiceNow knowledge base. Note that by default, all articles are retrieved. You can obtain the SQL query by manually running your filters in the ServiceNow knowledge base table interface and copying it to use it in your data source.
Specify the ServiceNow article identifier, such as
number
orsys_id
.Specify the ServiceNow portal URL suffix (ONLY relevant for the Links to the articles), which is
sp
by default. However, it can differ depending on your organization’s ServiceNow configuration;
Finally, click the Add external integration button to add this new integration to your data source repository.
Video tutorial
What’s next?
Now that the data source has been created, you can select it when creating an agent.
Find more information about how to create an agent by reading this page: Build your own agent.