Administering Creator Studio

Admins have special privileges to approve and update tasks in Creator Studio that regular users can't.

As a Creator Studio administrator, you manage the processes that keep app development running smoothly on your instance. Admin tasks include approving app creation requests, managing collaborators, configuring forms and activities, and deploying apps to production.

Some of the things that admins can do for Creator Studio include the following:

Create apps for people who don't have permission.
Administer who can access the experience switcher.
Manage collaboration requests.
Create and edit templates for forms.
Change the table an app uses.
Configure custom activities for playbooks.
Administer the App type page.
Deploy apps to production.
Configure user access to deployed apps.
Approve Creator Studio requests to create an app
Respond to app creation requests made by users who can't create apps themselves, ensuring that your organization doesn't have too many or redundant apps.
Administering access to the experience switcher
The experience switcher can provide access to Creator Studio, ServiceNow Studio, ServiceNow IDE. However, whether you can see and select all of those depends on your role or access level.
Administering collaboration in Creator Studio
In Creator Studio, as an administrator or App Engine admin, you have the power to manage how people work together on projects.
Administering templates and forms for Creator Studio
As an admin, you can create custom templates and pre-configured questions to help streamline and guide users when they build apps in Creator Studio.
Administering an app's associated table
Admins can change the default table that apps built in Creator Studio save their requests to.
Administering notification emails in Creator Studio
Admins can customize existing email notifications and create templates for new email notifications that Creator Studio apps send. For example, you can add branding to notification emails that a request was opened.
Administering activities in Creator Studio
As an admin, you can define custom activities, make them available in Creator Studio, and hide existing activities to help guide users when they add automation to apps.
Disable the App type page in Creator Studio
Hide the App type page that appears when users select to create an app by adding a system property to streamline the app creation process.
Managing Creator Studio deployments and monitoring app usage
After users create apps, they submit them for you, the admin, to review and deploy. How you deploy them depends on whether you have App Engine Management Center (AEMC) installed on the instance.
Administering user access for deployed Creator Studio apps
After users build apps in Creator Studio and you deploy them to production, as an admin, you are responsible for granting access to those apps to users.
Artifacts that Creator Studio generates when users create an app
When a user creates an app in Creator Studio, the ServiceNow AI Platform creates several metadata artifacts, such as tables.

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title	Administering Creator Studio
description	Admins have special privileges to approve and update tasks in Creator Studio that regular users can't.
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last_updated	2026-09-10
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