Combined External Content Connectors release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Australia

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Consolidated page of all release notes for External Content Connectors from Yokohama to Australia.

How to use this page

To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family External Content Connectors release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Yokohama to Australia.

Tip: If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release."

Important information for upgrading External Content Connectors to Australia

Before you upgrade to Australia, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

No updates for this release.

Zurich

No updates for this release.

Australia

No updates for this release.

## New features

Between your current release family and Australia, new features were introduced for External Content Connectors.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

Users with the sn_ext_conn.xcc_admin role can create, configure, and review details for external content connectors and crawls.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Asana source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Docusign source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Dropbox source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your GitHub Enterprise Cloud source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your HubSpot source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Lucidchart source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Miro source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your monday.com source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Notion source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your SAP DMS source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Smartsheet source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Trello source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your WordPress source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Workday source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Zoom source system.

Specify the source system and User [sys_user] table fields to examine for matches when an external content connector maps source system users to your ServiceNow AI Platform users.

Review statistics about the documents (items or files with searchable content and metadata) retrieved by a content crawl.

Review statistics about the permissions (user and group-membership security principals) retrieved by a user permission crawl.

Review metrics that show how your external content connector has run over time.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from buckets in your Amazon S3 source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from user boxes in your Box source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from issues, wikis, merge requests, tags, branches, and commits in your GitLab source system's groups, projects, and repositories.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from individual drives in your Microsoft OneDrive source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from conversations in your Microsoft Viva Engage source system's communities.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from KB articles in your ServiceNow AI Platform instance.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from pages and subdomains in public web sources. Select a predefined web source or specify a custom web source.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from articles in your Zendesk Guide source system's knowledge bases.

Review statistics for searchable items retrieved by a content crawl.

Review statistics for user and group permissions retrieved by a user permission crawl.

Retrieve searchable content and user permissions from projects in your Atlassian Jira Cloud source system.

Retrieve searchable content and user permissions from shared drives in your Google Drive source system.

Retrieve searchable content and user permissions from teams in your Microsoft Teams source system.

Retrieve searchable content from the ServiceNow product documentation site.

Retrieve searchable content and user permissions from public channels in your Slack source system.

When an external content connector's indexed document count exceeds 800,000, a warning message appears in the connector's UI to indicate that it's approaching the indexing limit of 1,000,000 documents.

Expand the range of information available to Virtual Agent users by adding external content search results to Now Assist in Virtual Agent conversations.

Improve recall for external content searches with support for semantic vector indexing of crawled content. Semantic vector indexing is supported for all external content connectors.

Zurich

Configure your Google Drive external content connectors to only retrieve content items that have one or more of a specified set of label values applied.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Adobe Acrobat Sign source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Aha! Roadmaps source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Cornerstone source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Fluid Topics source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your ManageEngine source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Workvivo source system.

Users with the sn_ext_conn.xcc_admin role can create, configure, and review details for external content connectors and crawls.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Asana source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Docusign source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Dropbox source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your GitHub Enterprise Cloud source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your HubSpot source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Lucidchart source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Miro source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your monday.com source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Notion source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your SAP DMS source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Smartsheet source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Trello source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your WordPress source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Workday source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Zoom source system.

Specify the source system and User [sys_user] table fields to examine for matches when an external content connector maps source system users to your ServiceNow AI Platform users.

Review statistics about the documents (items or files with searchable content and metadata) retrieved by a content crawl.

Review statistics about the permissions (user and group-membership security principals) retrieved by a user permission crawl.

Review metrics that show how your external content connector has run over time.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from buckets in your Amazon S3 source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from user boxes in your Box source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from issues, wikis, merge requests, tags, branches, and commits in your GitLab source system's groups, projects, and repositories.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from individual drives in your Microsoft OneDrive source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from conversations in your Microsoft Viva Engage source system's communities.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from KB articles in your ServiceNow AI Platform instance.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from pages and subdomains in public web sources. Select a predefined web source or specify a custom web source.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from articles in your Zendesk Guide source system's knowledge bases.

Review statistics for searchable items retrieved by a content crawl.

Review statistics for user and group permissions retrieved by a user permission crawl.

Australia

Retrieve content, metadata, and users from any source system using your own custom connector, running in your local or cloud environment. Send your retrieved data to a gateway connector running on your instance by submitting Custom Connector Gateway API requests to an ingest gateway host. The gateway connector indexes your retrieved data and makes it searchable in the ServiceNow AI Platform®.

Extract searchable text from Markdown (.md) and email message (.eml, .msg) files and attachments retrieved by your external content connectors.

View and resolve connector health issues using the connector health dashboard.

Verify indexing status and error counts for individual content items using the index inspector tool. Optionally review additional item details, see which users and groups can view the item in secure search, and view retrieval and indexing errors for the item.

Optionally specify advanced connection settings including the AWS region and Amazon S3 endpoint you want the connector to use. You can also specify a list of Amazon S3 buckets to retrieve content from, or leave this list empty to enable auto-discovery of buckets.

Reduce content crawl time with delta content crawls. Unlike full content crawls, delta content crawls ignore unchanged content items in a connector's source system. Delta content crawls are supported for the Google Drive external content connector.

Configure your Google Drive external content connectors to only retrieve content items that have one or more of a specified set of label values applied.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata exported from your SAP SuccessFactors Learning source system.

Control crawl scope by specifying the maximum number of link hops from the start point URL the connector traverses when crawling content.

Activate multimodal captioning for attachments and files retrieved by your external content connector's content crawls. The multimodal service automatically generates captions for images, tables, charts, and complex layouts in the retrieved attachments and files. Searches can match attachment and file results using keywords from the generated captions.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Adobe Acrobat Sign source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Aha! Roadmaps source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Cornerstone source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Fluid Topics source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your ManageEngine source system.

Retrieve searchable content and metadata from your Workvivo source system.

## Changes

Between your current release family and Australia, some changes were made to existing External Content Connectors features.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

The connector creation UI now includes optional steps for configuring user permission crawls (for connectors that support them) and for linking connector search sources to your search profiles. If you want to change these settings for an existing connector, you can configure these settings from the connector editor.

Analyze connector performance and behavior in a selected time period using the redesigned Analytics page. You can access this page from the connector editor.

The Atlassian Jira Cloud external content connector no longer requires your Atlassian Jira Cloud instance ID as a connection setting.

The Microsoft OneDrive external content connector now accepts certificate SHA1 thumbprint hashes in hexadecimal format as well as in base64-encoded format.

The Microsoft SharePoint Online external content connector now accepts certificate SHA1 thumbprint hashes in hexadecimal format as well as in base64-encoded format.

The Microsoft Teams external content connector now accepts certificate SHA1 thumbprint hashes in hexadecimal format as well as in base64-encoded format.

The connector creation UI now includes optional steps for configuring the new connector's crawl settings and creating and scheduling crawls for it. You can still configure these settings from the connector editor, so you can skip these steps during connector creation if you want to configure crawl settings and create crawls later on.

The predefined web sources external content connector has been subsumed into the new Webcrawler external content connector, which allows you to specify a custom web source or select a predefined one.

On the External Content Admin Home page, you now select New instead of Create to create a new connector. Next, you select the appropriate source system type on the Choose source page. Finally, you fill in required values on the Connector details page.

Zurich

Retrieve content and links from URLs found in sitemaps defined for your web source system when running content crawls for the Webcrawler external content connector. A content crawl only retrieves sitemap URLs that include the crawl's starting point URL.

View the start point for a scheduled partial content crawl via a link in its entry in the the external content connector's list of crawls.

View the start point for a scheduled partial content crawl via a link in its crawl history entries.

Map source system user and group permissions assigned via RBAC roles to users in your ServiceNow AI Platform instance.

The connector creation UI now includes optional steps for configuring user permission crawls (for connectors that support them) and for linking connector search sources to your search profiles. If you want to change these settings for an existing connector, you can configure these settings from the connector editor.

Analyze connector performance and behavior in a selected time period using the redesigned Analytics page. You can access this page from the connector editor.

The Atlassian Jira Cloud external content connector no longer requires your Atlassian Jira Cloud instance ID as a connection setting.

The Microsoft OneDrive external content connector now accepts certificate SHA1 thumbprint hashes in hexadecimal format as well as in base64-encoded format.

The Microsoft SharePoint Online external content connector now accepts certificate SHA1 thumbprint hashes in hexadecimal format as well as in base64-encoded format.

The Microsoft Teams external content connector now accepts certificate SHA1 thumbprint hashes in hexadecimal format as well as in base64-encoded format.

The connector creation UI now includes optional steps for configuring the new connector's crawl settings and creating and scheduling crawls for it. You can still configure these settings from the connector's editor, so you can skip these steps during connector creation if you want to configure crawl settings and create crawls later on.

The predefined web sources external content connector has been subsumed into the new Webcrawler external content connector, which enables you to specify a custom web source or select a predefined one.

  • Coral theme

Coral is now the default theme for new portal, web, and mobile experiences with Next Experience or Core UI enabled. This theme provides a fresh look and feel, featuring brand-neutral illustrations to enhance your user experience. A dark theme option is available for web and mobile experiences.

Australia

The Amazon S3 external content connector adds support for secure search. The Settings tab for this connector includes a new User mapping settings screen. On this screen, you can select one of three permission modes for the connector and optionally configure user mappings. You can also configure user permission crawls for the connector if using a permission mode that requires them.

The Quota usage metric has been renamed Connector limit for clarity.

In the external content connector editor, the Crawl schedules tab has been renamed to Manage crawls.

You can now create and run multiple ServiceNow instance connectors on a single ServiceNow AI Platform instance.

Connector admins can now schedule crawls on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis for all Webcrawler external content connectors.

Retrieve content and links from URLs found in sitemaps defined for your web source system when running content crawls for the Webcrawler external content connector. A content crawl only retrieves sitemap URLs that include the crawl's starting point URL.

View the start point for a scheduled partial content crawl via a link in its entry in the the external content connector's list of crawls.

View the start point for a scheduled partial content crawl via a link in its crawl history entries.

Map source system user and group permissions assigned via RBAC roles to users in your ServiceNow AI Platform instance.

## Removed

Between your current release family and Australia, some External Content Connectors features or functionality were removed.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

No updates for this release.

Zurich

No updates for this release.

Australia

No updates for this release.

## Deprecations

Between your current release family and Australia, some External Content Connectors features or functionality were deprecated.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

No updates for this release.

Zurich

No updates for this release.

Australia

No updates for this release.

## Activation information

Review information on how to activate External Content Connectors.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

  • Activation information

Install External Content Connectors by requesting the External Content Connectors Application Suite plugin from the ServiceNow Store. If you want to activate the ServiceNow product documentation external content connector or the Webcrawler external content connector, you must request activation of those plugins after the Application Suite is activated.

Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

Zurich

  • Activation information

Install External Content Connectors by requesting the External Content Connectors Application Suite plugin from the ServiceNow Store. If you want to activate the ServiceNow product documentation external content connector or the Webcrawler external content connector, you must request activation of those plugins after the Application Suite is activated.

Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

Australia

  • Activation information

Install External Content Connectors by requesting the External Content Connectors Application Suite plugin from the ServiceNow Store. If you want to activate the ServiceNow product documentation external content connector or the Webcrawler external content connector, you must request activation of those plugins after the Application Suite is activated.

Visit the ServiceNow Store to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

## Additional requirements

If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for External Content Connectors we have noted them here.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

  • Additional requirements

Your instance needs inbound mTLS support to run external content connector crawls. If inbound mTLS support isn't already activated for your instance, it should be automatically activated after you install the External Content Connectors Application Suite plugin.

Zurich

  • Additional requirements

Your instance needs inbound mTLS support to run external content connector crawls. If inbound mTLS support isn't already activated for your instance, it should be automatically activated after you install the External Content Connectors Application Suite plugin.

Australia

  • Additional requirements

Your instance needs inbound mTLS support to run external content connector crawls. If inbound mTLS support isn't already activated for your instance, it should be automatically activated after you install the External Content Connectors Application Suite plugin.

## Browser requirements

If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for External Content Connectors we have noted them here.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

  • Browser requirements

For optimal performance, use External Content Connectors in the latest release of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer isn't supported.

Zurich

  • Browser requirements

For optimal performance, use External Content Connectors in the latest release of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer isn't supported.

Australia

  • Browser requirements

For optimal performance, use External Content Connectors in the latest release of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer isn't supported.

## Accessibility information

Review details on accessibility information for External Content Connectors, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

No updates for this release.

Zurich

No updates for this release.

Australia

No updates for this release.

## Localization information

If there are specific localization considerations for External Content Connectors we have noted them here.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

No updates for this release.

Zurich

No updates for this release.

Australia

No updates for this release.

## Highlight information

If there are specific highlight considerations for External Content Connectors we have noted them here.

Release

Release notes

Yokohama

  • Make content and metadata from your external document repositories searchable in AI Search applications.
  • Map your source system users to their ServiceNow AI Platform user accounts to preserve their access permissions for crawled content.
  • Schedule content and user permission crawls or run them manually as needed.

See External Content Connectors for more information.

Zurich

  • Make content and metadata from your external document repositories searchable in AI Search applications.
  • Map your source system users to their ServiceNow AI Platform user accounts to preserve their access permissions for crawled content.
  • Schedule content and user permission crawls or run them manually as needed.

See External Content Connectors for more information.

Australia

  • Make content and metadata from your external document repositories searchable in AI Search applications.
  • Map your source system users to their ServiceNow AI Platform user accounts to preserve their access permissions for crawled content.
  • Schedule content and user permission crawls or run them manually as needed.

See External Content Connectors for more information.

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