Orchestration activity designer The Orchestration activity designer enables a user with either the workflow_admin or activity_creator role to construct reusable activities that suit an organization's business needs. Activities created by the activity designer offer the following advantages over core activities offered in previous releases: Reuse custom activities in multiple workflows. Upload and download custom activities from the ServiceNow Store. Parse data from standard input formats. Test input variables against a target host or endpoint and inspect the payload. Automatically map values from a test payload to an activity's output variables. Share data between activities. View and revert to previous versions of an activity. Access to the activity designer requires activation of ServiceNow Orchestration . For instructions about managing transitions and conditions for all activities, see Workflow activities. For a list of available activity templates provided with Orchestration, see Activity designer components Activity designer componentsOrchestration installs the activity templates and provides access to the controls required to create and manage custom activities in the Workflow Editor.Activity scopingCustom activities run in their own scope, even if it is different from that of the workflow.Activity designer variablesThe ServiceNow Activity Designer enables users with the activity_creator role to create input variables, map them to values on a target host or endpoint, and then pass the data returned to other activities in a workflow through output variables.Orchestration activity parsing rulesActivity designer parsing rules populate output variables defined in a custom activity with payload data returned from an external host or endpoint. SOAP Web service activity designerUse the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Web Service template to create activities that return data from a SOAP endpoint. JDBC activity designerCreate a custom JDBC activity to automate database queries and updates in a ServiceNow instance and perform operations on the data from external databases.JavaScript Probe activity designerUse the JavaScript Probe template to create an activity that runs a JavaScript probe on a target host that is configured to return specific information. Powershell activity designerPowerShell activities are configured to return data to a workflow from a host using Microsoft PowerShell.SFTP activity designerYou can use the SFTP activity designer to create custom activities that execute basic SFTP commands on a remote server.REST Web service activity designerRepresentational State Transfer (REST) workflow activities are configured to return data to a workflow from a specific endpoint, using a preconfigured REST message.Probe activity designerUse the Probe template to create an activity that runs a ServiceNow probe on the target host that is configured to return specific information.SSH activity designerThe Secure Shell (SSH) template extracts data from a target host that uses the SSH network protocol. Run Script activity designerUse the Run Script template to create an activity that runs any script.JMS activity designerCreate a custom JMS activity to retrieve or send messages to external systems using the Java Messaging Service.
Orchestration activity designer The Orchestration activity designer enables a user with either the workflow_admin or activity_creator role to construct reusable activities that suit an organization's business needs. Activities created by the activity designer offer the following advantages over core activities offered in previous releases: Reuse custom activities in multiple workflows. Upload and download custom activities from the ServiceNow Store. Parse data from standard input formats. Test input variables against a target host or endpoint and inspect the payload. Automatically map values from a test payload to an activity's output variables. Share data between activities. View and revert to previous versions of an activity. Access to the activity designer requires activation of ServiceNow Orchestration . For instructions about managing transitions and conditions for all activities, see Workflow activities. For a list of available activity templates provided with Orchestration, see Activity designer components Activity designer componentsOrchestration installs the activity templates and provides access to the controls required to create and manage custom activities in the Workflow Editor.Activity scopingCustom activities run in their own scope, even if it is different from that of the workflow.Activity designer variablesThe ServiceNow Activity Designer enables users with the activity_creator role to create input variables, map them to values on a target host or endpoint, and then pass the data returned to other activities in a workflow through output variables.Orchestration activity parsing rulesActivity designer parsing rules populate output variables defined in a custom activity with payload data returned from an external host or endpoint. SOAP Web service activity designerUse the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Web Service template to create activities that return data from a SOAP endpoint. JDBC activity designerCreate a custom JDBC activity to automate database queries and updates in a ServiceNow instance and perform operations on the data from external databases.JavaScript Probe activity designerUse the JavaScript Probe template to create an activity that runs a JavaScript probe on a target host that is configured to return specific information. Powershell activity designerPowerShell activities are configured to return data to a workflow from a host using Microsoft PowerShell.SFTP activity designerYou can use the SFTP activity designer to create custom activities that execute basic SFTP commands on a remote server.REST Web service activity designerRepresentational State Transfer (REST) workflow activities are configured to return data to a workflow from a specific endpoint, using a preconfigured REST message.Probe activity designerUse the Probe template to create an activity that runs a ServiceNow probe on the target host that is configured to return specific information.SSH activity designerThe Secure Shell (SSH) template extracts data from a target host that uses the SSH network protocol. Run Script activity designerUse the Run Script template to create an activity that runs any script.JMS activity designerCreate a custom JMS activity to retrieve or send messages to external systems using the Java Messaging Service.
