Version history for the App Engine Studio on the ServiceNow Store .

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Version history

Version 27.2.3 - May 2025
Maintenance update.
Version 27.1.4 - February 2025
Changed: Minor updates to improve usability and accessibility.
Version 26.2.10 - November 2024
  • New: Open an application in ServiceNow Studio directly from App Engine Studio
  • Fixed:
    • Visibility of table fields in notification builder
    • Publish issue when having leading zeros
    • Breadcrumb for Portals not showing on Articles
Version 26.1.2 - August 2024
  • The App Engine Studio App Inventory page now clearly distinguishes apps created with Now Assist in the following ways:
    • A transition animation from the Now Assist Panel into AES eases navigation after the application has been generated.
    • A banner prompts users to review the generated items on landing in AES.
    • Metadata records are tagged with labels and other UI highlights to indicate they were generated by AI.
    • Metadata records have a Review button to identify records that need to be reviewed.
    • App submission changes help inform users that they should be reviewing prior to deployment.
Version 25.1.2 - May 2024
  • Changed: To access App Engine Studio, a user must have either an App Engine Studio User role or a Delegated Developer role for an app accessible in App Engine Studio.
  • Fixed: Fixes an issue with previous App Intake flow needing a non-existing mandatory field. Removes previous App Intake Service Catalog item for customers who do not have it enabled.
Version 24.3.1 - May 2024
Fixed: Fixes an issue with previous App Intake flow needing a non-existing mandatory field. Removes previous App Intake Service Catalog item for customers who do not have it enabled.
Version 23.4.3 - May 2024
Fixed: Fixes an issue with previous App Intake flow needing a non-existing mandatory field. Removes previous App Intake Service Catalog item for customers who do not have it enabled.
Version 25.0.2 - February 2024
Changed: App Engine Studio and its integrated builders were updated to reflect the latest company theme changes.
Version 24.2.1 - January 2024 (Vancouver)
Addressed a security issue.
Version 23.3.2 - January 2024 (Utah)
Fixes.
Version 22.3.1 - January 2024 (Tokyo)
Addressed a security issue.
Version 24.1.2 - November 2023
  • New:
    • When a user searches for tables when creating an email notification in AES, Notification Builder lists recommended tables. It also organizes the available tables into three sections: tables that are already in your app, recommended tables, and all tables outside the app scope.
    • App Templates notification branding updates were made within the Cost Approval, Performance Approval, Service Request Management, and Document Approval App templates, as well for the record page in the Document approval app template. The branding updates modernized email notifications and added customizable elements to enable customers to configure email templates for organizational needs.
  • Changed: Improved AES refresh behavior, so when multiple tabs are open within an application, the currently selected tab is reloaded prior to the other tabs.
Version 24.0.2 - August 2023
  • Changed:
    • Updated the Notification Builder to make email variables easier to add to emails.
    • Updated the Data, Experience, Automation, and Security tabs on the App Home page to be sortable.
  • Fixed:
    • Minor usability improvements including:
      • Updated the visibility of the Add buttons on the Data, Experience, Automation, and Security sections of App Home.
      • Added a Create card to the top left of the AES home page.
      • Updated the Guidance on the App Home page.
Version 23.1.3 - May 2023
  • Changed:
    • Added a catalog task to the App intake catalog item to allow App Engine admins to select the user's permission type in AES. App Engine admins will now be able to select to add a user to the AES User group, where they can create new apps, the AES User Limited group, where they can only edit apps that they have delegated development permissions on, or manually configure the user's permission in development.
    • Updated the theme in App Engine Studio to match the new platform theme.
  • Removed: It is no longer necessary to active the user provisioning property as part of the App Intake process so this step has been removed from App Intake Guided Setup.
Version 23.0.2 - February 2023
  • New: The App Engine Studio Users Limited group was added to allow AES Administrators to give developers assigned to the group the ability to collaborate on existing applications without being able to create new applications or access templates.
  • See the App Engine Studio release notes for more information.
Version 22.1.1 - November 2022
  • Changed:
    • Taxonomy override on type label
    • AES Core Performance improvements
    • Misc. usability improvements
    • Improved messaging on templatization failure conditions
Version 22.0.3 - August 2022
  • New: App Engine Studio customers can determine who can use custom or out-of-the-box app templates to create new apps, improving app governance
  • Changed:
    • Template authors can now select sharing options when creating a custom template, from the menu on the template card on the AES Templates page, or from a new tab in the Template Properties.
    • Workspace Template - Developers that create workspaces will enjoy the benefit of pre-configured search sources that include primary and secondary tables of their workspace.
    • Workspace Template - Developers may build and manage dashboards with each workspace created in App Engine Studio without code or advanced ServiceNow knowledge
  • Fixed: Custom template support for workspaces with sys_ux_registry_m2m_category
Version 21.1.3 - May 2022
  • New:
    • Default Roles in App and Table Creation
      • AES now presents default roles to the user when creating a new application. Users can accept, edit, or delete the defaults in the App Creation Wizard.
      • When creating a table, AES allows the user to create ACLs to configure access to the table per role in the app. If no roles exist in the application upon table creation, users will again be provided the opportunity to create roles based on the defaults.
    • Developers can create email notifications within AES.
  • Changed:
    • Documentation update: With the release of Pipelines and Deployments in December 2021, AES no longer needed to be installed on all instances - only Pipelines and Deployments needed to be installed on all instances. If a customer is cloning instances (most commonly production down to sub-production(s)), the customer should continue to install ALL plugins on all instances and ensure ALL sub-production properties are also set on production to ensure cloning does not remove any plugins or properties.
    • For application intake requests to work in AEMC, customers must set sn_app_intake.instance_can_provision_users to true (as defined in Application Intake Guided Setup) and AES must be installed on the controller instance (that is, usually production).
    • There is a new field on the "sys_app_template_manifest" table named "table." Manifest records should use this field rather than "table_name." There is no impact to end users within AES; this change is visible only in the Platform UI.
    • When a workspace is created from the UI Workspace Template, the Zing search configuration is auto-generated to point to the Primary and Secondary tables of the workspace.
Version 21.0.1 - March 2022
  • New:
    • Custom Template authoring allows developers to create templates and make them available to all developers in App Engine Studio. With custom templates, developers can speed-up the application development process while maintaining your organization's development standards.
      • Build custom templates from scratch or use an existing application as a starting point.
      • Add and customize data, experiences, logic and automation, and security to custom templates.
      • Manage and modify custom templates based on your business requirements.
      • Publish custom templates to app repository and app store.
    • Added integration with iHub Imports allowing developers to automate data import tasks
    • Added integration with Decision Builder allowing developers to create and manage decision tables
  • Changed:
    • Updated App Template Cards on AES Home and Templates pages to have flip animation and the option to skip details page
    • Pipelines & Collaboration: If Pipelines and Deployments is set up, all collaboration requests will be routed through the controller instance, which should be production, instead of the instance that originated the request (that is, development).
    • App Intake User Provisioning
      • When an admin is approving an app intake request, they will have an option to choose which development instance they want the developer to be provisioned with the AES user role.
        • The instance options will be based on the entries of instance type Development on the Environment table.
        • The requesting user must already exist on the target instance to be provisioned the AES user role.
    • Workspace UX template updated to work with Polaris
    • Workspace UX template updated to work with UIB Layout 3.0, theming variables, and performance changes
    • Workspace UX template updated PAR components to new Polaris data visualization components
  • Fixed: Fixed issue with users not being able to access delegated development on store applications. Users will be able to access Manage Developers with store applications and Manage Collaborators with custom applications
Version 20.2.2 - December 2021
  • New:
    • Added default Analytics pages in the Workspace UI Template of App Engine Studio to allow developers immediately access to analytics features.
      • The pages are Analytics Center, Dashboard, All Dashboards, and KPI details
      • All the pages are added to any Workspace UI Template launched via the App Engine Studio
      • All the pages have the default events pre-configured
  • Changed:
    • Updated the workspace template short description to educate developers on the value of workspaces and differentiate workspaces from other UI objects. The new short description is: "A workspace helps users manage and fulfill requests sent to them."
    • Pipelines and deployments have been refactored to make set up and operation easier and more flexible.
      • Pipelines and deployments plugin will now be a stand-alone plugin that will be bundled with AES, allowing for easier install without having to install AES on every instance (I.e. the pipelines and deployments plugin will be auto-installed with the AES bundle on development but the customer will only need to install the pipelines and deployments plugin on other environments instead of all of AES).
      • Support for any number of environments in a pipeline.
      • Support for any number of pipelines, as long as the “originating environment” or development environment is unique for each pipeline.
      • Updated deployment tasks, providing approvers more insights into the app
        • Now uses real approvals to deploy to each environment
        • Runs an OOTB ATF suite that customers can add tests to
        • Runs an OOTB instance scan on the scoped app which customers can add additional checks to
        • Contains an app manifest, providing approvers insights into what the app contains
  • Fixed:
    • Updated Source Control to include view commit history capability
    • Miscellaneous data model and overall usability improvements
Version 20.1.1 - November 2021
  • New: Enabled ability to create Standard Catalog Items from App Engine Studio
  • Fixed: Miscellaneous technical debt
Version 20.1.0 - October 2021
  • Changed:
    • Surfaced both Submit and Publish options, enabling admins and delegated developers to deploy apps according to their preference and company’s best practices
    • Added confirmation notification for copying sys_id of my app
  • Fixed: Miscellaneous accessibility issues
Version 20.0.1 - September 2021
  • New:
    • Added new developer collaboration features, enabling developers to invite other developers to co-create together
    • Added the ability to import and link applications to git utilizing Source Control
    • Added full support for delegated development, providing admins control over what developers can build within their applications
    • Added integration with the new Mobile App Builder which supersedes Mobile Studio
    • Added a new catalog item and workflow that provides citizen developers a request process for building their applications using App Engine Studio
    • Added the ability to open the application in Dev Studio
    • Added the ability to publish directly to the app repo
    • Added additional delegated development permissions:
      • UI Builder
      • Source control
      • Submit for deployment
      • Delete application
      • Invite collaborators
      • Manage collaborators
    • App Templates: Mobile experience added to Inventory Tracker and Emergency Alert templates
  • Changed:
    • Supercharged the mobile wizard experience, enabling developers to build production-ready apps in minutes
    • Improved the setup experience by no longer requiring admins to configure a deployment pipeline in order to use App Engine Studio
    • Relocated the App Engine Studio module in the platform navigator to the new App Engine application
    • Deleting an application from App Engine Studio now performs a hard delete
  • Fixed:
    • Improved performance with home page loading time
    • Fixed issue with deployment flow timeouts
    • Miscellaneous translation issues
    • Miscellaneous accessibility issues
  • Removed:
    • Removed the project table and now utilize delegated development to control what apps a user can see and work on
    • Removed the user sync feature
Version 1.1.1 - June 2021
  • New:
    • Added the ability to open Form Designer from within Table Builder
    • Added the ability to refresh the list of fields when working in Table Builder
    • The header on App Home will now stay fixed/visible when scrolling
    • Added the ability to collapse the App Engine Studio header, providing more real estate for working in the different builders
  • Fixed:
    • Fixed hover states and general CSS bugs on App Home
    • Fixed tour point icons not showing
    • Fixed translations on spoke alerts
    • Fixed broken links on the resources page
    • Fixed the Copy App Sys ID button in the app properties dialog Paid down miscellaneous tech debt
    • Fixed the issue with the login page redirection not working in the Workspace experience template
    • Fixed the issue when building a table from a spreadsheet that only contains column headers (no data)
  • App Templates:
    • Fixed:
      • Performance Review Fixed the issue with AI search not working within the portal Fixed the workspace role access issues for admin and managers
      • Event Registration Fixed the issue with the date/time not displaying correctly according to internationalization rules
      • Emergency Alert Fixed the issue with the date/time not displaying correctly according to internationalization rules
      • Document Approval Fixed issue with logout not working within the portal Fixed issue with notifications not being triggered correctly
      • Time Off Requests Fixed issue with start date not accepting today's date Fixed issue in email notifications where the link was not opening to the correct portal
Version 1.0.6 - March 2021
  • New:
    • Rapidly build high-quality applications in an end-to-end, low-code environment.
    • Build apps fast by using app templates for pre-built solutions.
    • Application development takes place on a non-production instance, your delegated developers can build applications safely without causing technical issues on your production instance.
    • Control which apps to deploy by reviewing and testing the apps that App Engine Studio users submit for approval.