View CI details on the Explore CI view
Now Assist answers your questions on CI classes and attributes to help you work in CI forms, dashboards, home pages, and other views on the workspace.
Before you begin
To enable Now Assist to provide a detailed description, you must activate the External Content Connectors plugin, install the ServiceNow Product Documentation connector, and then crawl the product documentation. For configuration instructions, see Configure the CI form contextual help skill.
Role required: cmdb_inst_admin
About this task
In addition to using Now Assist on the Explore CI page, Now Assist provides detailed information on any CI form while you create, view, or update a CI record, as described in View CI attribute descriptions on CI forms.
Procedure
While viewing a CI on the Explore CI view, select Ask Now Assist for help.
The Now Assist panel opens. Enter a question about any field or section on the view. For more information, see Working in the Now Assist panel.
Description of the CI attribute
- Provide feedback, copy the response text to the clipboard, or refresh the response.
| Option | Procedure |
|---|---|
| Provide feedback for the summary | If you think that the response was helpful, select thumbs-up Image omitted: icon-thumbs-up.png . If you think that it wasn’t helpful, select thumbs-down No alternative text supplied Image omitted: icon-thumbs-down.png .This feedback improves the agentic AI model and can help to improve the future versions of this skill. The system gathers the feedback on each generated response and stores it in the agentic AI logs \(sys\_generative\_ai\_log\_list.do\).No alternative text supplied |
| Copy the summary | Select the copy to clipboard icon Image omitted: icon-clipboard.png to use the response information for another purpose, such as pasting into an email.No alternative text supplied |
| Refresh the summary | If you think that data might have changed after you viewed the response, select the redo icon Image omitted: icon-redo.png to refresh the response information.No alternative text supplied |
Related topics
View CI attribute descriptions on CI forms