Twilio SMS and Voice activate speedy on-call scheduling, incident alerts. Notify allows you to integrate with telephony providers such as the Twilio service to manage phone calls and SMS messages from within your instance.
Here I have implemented a functionality where you can trigger a Conference call and SMS when any P1 Incident is created. Also you can explicitly trigger a call with call the assignment group members by clicking Phone Icon.
Twilio Configuration Needed:
- You must have an SID and authentication token for an active Twilio account and you can get it by creating account on : https://www.twilio.com/
- After creating a Twilio account, as you can see after clicking on Active Number you will get a number, or you can choose between number provided.
- Also, In order to receive a call/SMS, you need to Add your mobile number or callers mobile number in Verified Called IDs and need to verify it.
- Also, as you can see in image, Account SID and Auth Token is generated. Copy that in notepad because we need to add this in ServiceNow account.
- You can configure Programmable Voice, SMS within Twilio. I am using trial account so it comes with limited features.
ServiceNow Configuration Needed:
- Activate the Notify plugin by going to Plugins
- Role required: notify_admin, admin
- As you can see in below screenshot, you need to go Notify> Twilio Direct Configuration and then Enter your Account SID and Auth Token which is copied on clipboard or you can find it on Twilio Account Dashboard.
- After adding Account SIDand Auth Token Click, On “Connected to Twilio” info message as below.
- UI Macro: In order to Show Phone Icon in front of assignment group field. On a Click, it will trigger a conference call to assignment group members.
You will see below window after initiating a conference call to group members. You can find all call related information in Notify Conference Calls Module.
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System Property: This system properties will have SysID of Notify number to use for group conference calls.
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Script Include: This script include will have a code for triggering a conference call. This script will be called from UI Macros. This script will find group member/ conference call participents, sys_id of conference call number of property groupconfcall.number and set up the outbound calls for all conference call participants.
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Dictionary Override: Create a dictionary override for Assignment group field and add following attribute: ref_contributions=group_conf_call. This is used for calling a UI Macro which displays Phone Icon.
Done!!! You are ready to test your functionality. You can deploy attached update set your instance.
References:
1. https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/madrid-servicenow-platform/page/product/notify2/concept/c_Notify2...
2. https://developer.servicenow.com/app.do#!/api_doc?v=newyork&id=r_N-call_S_S_GR
3. https://www.twilio.com/docs/all
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Thank you,
Abhishek Gardade
