Service Operations Workspace Overview


This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the Service Operations Workspace, offering insights into its functionalities and benefits for enhancing service management. It equips users with the necessary knowledge to effectively navigate and utilize the platform, ultimately streamlining operations and improving productivity. By understanding the workspace's features, users can optimize their workflow and make informed decisions in their service operations.


1.
Navigate to Service Operations Workspace.

  1. Click the "Workspaces" tab.
  2. Select Service Operations Workspace.

Servicenow service operations workspace

2. Overview

This includes seven (7) charts that directly relate to work you are engaged in.

These charts have two (2) versions. Your work, where it shows work assigned to you, and Your team's work which it defaults to, and includes all work assigned to your groups.

These charts include

  1. Unassigned incidents
  2. New interactions assigned
  3. Catalog tasks assigned
  4. 7 Days with no Response
  5. Interactions assigned
  6. Incidents assigned
  7. Incident SLAs

Clicking one of these charts will render that data in the table below to provide more information.

Servicenow service operations workspace charts

3. You can toggle between Your team's work and Your work by using the drop down to the right of the Overview section.

Service operations workspace your work and your team's work

4. All Active Notes

These are quick turn, one-off notes to provide timely updates for your team.

They are managed via Visual Task Board (VTB) and can be added, modified and closed as needed.

Service operations workspace all active notes

5. Announcements

These are out-of-the-box notifications created from changes.

Service operations workspace announcements

6. Upcoming

These are tasks related to you that are either overdue, due today, or due tomorrow. Currently, these include RITMs and Changes.

Service operations workspace upcoming tasks

7. Quick Links

This is open and personal. So, feel free to add links you feel are valuable to your day-to-day work.

Service operations workspace quick links

8. Open New

Click the plus sign (+) beside the home tab to create a new interaction, incident, or Change Request.

Service operations workspace new interaction, incident or change request