Summarize a record by using Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations (APO)
Summarize invoice and inquiry cases using the record summarization skill in Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations (APO) to quickly understand status, progress, and pending actions.
Before you begin
Role required: sn_ap_apm.accounts_payable_specialist or sn_ap_cm.agent
About this task
You can use these record summarization skills in either Core UI or Source-to-Pay Workspace.
- In Core UI, the summary appears in a banner in the record.
- In Source-to-Pay Workspace, the summary is generated on the Details tab.
Procedure
Navigate to Source-to-Pay Workspace.
Select the list icon (
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List icon.\).
List icon.\).
- Generate a summary for either an invoice case record or an inquiry case record.
| Option | Procedure |
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| Generate a summary for the invoice case record. |
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| Generate a summary for the inquiry case record. |
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- On the Cases tab, in the Record summary section, select Summarize.
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Summarize option that appears at the top of the record in Source-to-Pay Workspace.
Summarize option that appears at the top of the record in Source-to-Pay Workspace.
When you opt to summarize an invoice case, you see the following message: "Now Assist is summarizing your invoice case."
**Note:** Generating and displaying the summary may take several seconds.
- Review the summary details.
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Summarized invoice case.
Summarized invoice case.
A concise summary of the record, including the overview, actions completed, and next steps are displayed. The information that is displayed is based on the type of the record.
- **Overview**: Provides information about the record.
- **Actions Completed**: Lists all the actions that have been taken so far.
- **Next steps**: Lists the actions that the AP fulfillers must take next.
- When you finish summarizing a record, you can add it to the work notes, expand or collapse it, provide feedback, copy it, or view information about it.
| Option | Procedure |
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| Save the summary information by adding it to the recorded work notes |
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| Expand or collapse the summary | Select the expanded card icon \( Image omitted: icon-expand.png Expand card icon.\) or the collapse card icon \(\[Omitted image "icon-collapse.png"\] Alt text: Collapse card icon.\) to see more details or fewer summary details. |
| Provide feedback for the summary | If you think that the summary was helpful, select the helpful icon \( Image omitted: icon-helpful.png Helpful icon.\). If you think that the summary wasn’t helpful, select the not helpful icon \(\[Omitted image "icon-not-helpful.png"\] Alt text: Not helpful icon.\).This feedback improves the generative AI model and can help to improve the future versions of this skill. |
| Copy the record summary | Select the copy to clipboard icon \( Image omitted: icon-copy.png Copy to clipboard icon.\) to use the record summary information for another purpose, such as pasting into an email. |
| View the information about the record summary | If you want to check some details about the summary, select the more info icon \( Image omitted: icon-more-info.png More info icon.\). |