Where to start with App Engine Studio and the new UI Builder!

[Adam Stout]

You have read a lot about our Quebec release, but the thing we are most excited about is App Engine Studio with the all-new UI Builder.

• Rapidly build high-quality Creator Workflows in an end-to-end low-code experience
• Shorten go-live time with best-practice app and flow templates
• Strengthen LOB-IT collaboration and reuse with guardrails to ensure enterprise-class support
• Build pages and customize with over 100 Now Design System components through the all-new UI Builder

All of this in a beautiful, modern interface. We want to give you a cheat sheet into what you can expect and some resources on where to go next

Get started quickly, start in App Engine Studio

Build powerful workflows with Flow Designer

Design amazing experiences with UI Builder

Hit the ground running with several templates ready to get you started

While creating a new application is now easier than ever, there is still a lot of think about to ensure a well-run Citizen Development program in your organization. While we work through the organizational changes, we need to implement, there are some immediate things we can do to get started.

Step 1: Get some hands-on time with App Engine Studio

Everyone has access to App Engine Studio on your Personal Developer Instance (PDI) available via the Developer Program once you upgrade to Quebec Patch 1 (it is installed automatically when you upgrade your PDI). Login to https://developer.servicenow.com to get started.

If you are already licensed for App Engine, you can get App Engine Studio on your company’s instance via the ServiceNow Store. Talk to your ServiceNow admin about getting it installed.

Once you have it installed, open it up and take a look around.

Step 2: Go Deeper with App Engine Studio and UI Builder

Getting started with App Engine Studio is rather intuitive but there is a lot there to explore. Leverage the resources that are out there to get up to speed with the Now Platform functionality App Engine Studio brings you access to. In addition to getting to know App Engine Studio, get to know the UI Builder which is used for configuring and creating pages from AES.

• Developer Learning Path
• • Citizen Developer (includes "Build My First App Engine Studio Application")
• Documentation
• • App Engine Studio (Release Notes)
  • UI Builder (Release Notes)
  • Flow Designer (Release Notes)
• Developer Blogs
• • UI Builder
  • Flow Designer
• Data Sheets
• • App Engine
  • UI Builder
  • Flow Designer

As a reminder, Now Learning is typically updated a few weeks after the general availability of a release so remember to check back for updated courses and to take your delta exams to maintain your certifications.

Starting next week, you will see lots of great content showing up on the Developer Site and the Community including blogs, podcasts, and live streams showcasing App Engine Studio.

You’ll also want to make sure to catch the TechNow webinar on App Engine Studio on March 23rd.

Coming up in May, be sure to join us for Knowledge ’21 for several breakout sessions and hands-on labs on topics like:

• Build your first app in minutes with App Engine Studio
• Full Stack Development with App Engine Studio
• Getting Started with UI Builder
• Building a Killer UX with UI Builder

Step 3: Start Planning Your Citizen Developer Program

Once you have the basics of App Engine Studio, you can start the process of rolling it out to your core ServiceNow development team to make their work easier and faster.

With your core team leveraging App Engine Studio, you can expand your horizons to empower line of business or departmental developers to build applications in a distributed development model.

And once you have distributed development working smoothly, you can reach our goal of true citizen development with App Engine Studio where any user can harness the power of the Now Platform to build low-code enterprise-class apps quickly and securely.

We are here to help you on this journey. You’ll find several resources to help you in the Customer Success Center and in Now Create.

Now go login to your PDI and go build your first application with App Engine Studio!!!