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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Enable Guided Activity View

Guide end users through a playbook, step-by-step.

Before you begin

  • Role required: admin or playbook.admin
  • Familiarize yourself with how to begin customizing the playbook experience in UI Builder. To learn more, see Customizing the Playbook Experience.

About this task

Guide end users through a playbook, one activity at a time. If you have a lot of end users encountering issues in a particular area, and you want to walk them through a series of questions that lead to a particular Instruction activity to complete work (or even KB activity for final instruction), consider using the Guided activity view. There are out-of-the-box playbooks that use the Guided activity view for employee self-service requests, such as time off or benefit requests, available through the .

Note:

The following configurations and features are not supported for the Guided activity view:

  • Parallel activities
  • Optional activities
  • The Pending Item Visibility configuration in the Guided Self-Service Experience playbook experience record in the Playbook Experiences list [sys_playbook_experience.list]

    Note: This property is not relevant since there are no pending activities other than the current activity that an end user is in during a Guided self-service playbook run.

  • Stage picker components, including filters

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > UI Builder, and open the Guided Self-Service in Employee Center experience.
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Guided Self-Service Employee Center experience in UI Builder
  1. Open the page that you want to enable the Guided activity view for.
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Opening the Default page for the Guided Self-Service EC experience in UI Builder
  1. Under Body in the component tree, open Playbook Activity Viewer.
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Opening the Playbook Activity Viewer component in the component tree
The **Playbook Activity Viewer** panel opens on the right.
  1. In the Playbook Activity Viewer panel, under the Configure tab, open the Activity View drop-down and select Guided.
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Selecting the Guided activity view

Result

For an end user who is running a playbook, the result is a playbook that runs one activity at a time. If configured, users can still restart the playbook and activities.

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End user experience of a Guided view, Self-Service playbook