Whats new with Q? Flow Designer - Transform Functions

[Kieran Anson]

ServiceNow's Quebec family release is just around the corner and is one of the largest (I think) family releases we’ve had. It contains some really jaw-dropping features that will have any inner-nerd dancing for joy to get started with exploring what they can do.

If you haven’t already, get an early start and upgrade your PDI to Quebec now.

Transform functions allow you to easily manipulate pill values without needing to write inline scripts or custom actions. With Quebec, additional transform functions have been added which’ll likely make some of those actions you created redundant.

These, coupled with the new local variables (equivalent to workflow scratchpad) really elevates the functionality of simple data manipulation.

For information on how to use transform function, click here

Class	Name	Input Data Pill	Output Data Pill
String	To Proper Case	String	Capitalises the first letter of each word
Utilities	Is Blank	Any	Returns true if blank / zero / falsy
	Is Null	Any	Returns true if null or undefined
Simple Maths	Absolute Value	Number	The distance a number is from 0
	Round	Number	Rounds to nearest base 10
	Square Root	Number	Square roots a positive real number

Interested to learn more? Check out the Quebec Flow Designer Release Notes