Connecting Amazon Q Business to ServiceNow using APIs

You use the CreateDataSource action to connect a data source to your Amazon Q application.

Then, you use the configuration parameter to provide a JSON schema with all other configuration information specific to your data source connector.

For an example of the API request, see CreateDataSource in the Amazon Q API Reference.

ServiceNow JSON schema

The following is the ServiceNow JSON schema:


{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "connectionConfiguration": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "repositoryEndpointMetadata": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "hostUrl": {
              "type": "string",
              "pattern": "^(?!(^(https?|ftp|file):\/\/))[a-z0-9-]+(.service-now.com|.servicenowservices.com)$",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 2048
            },
            "authType": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "basicAuth",
                "OAuth2"
              ]
            },
            "servicenowInstanceVersion": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "Tokyo",
                "Sandiego",
                "Rome",
                "Vancouver",
                "Others"
                ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "hostUrl",
            "authType",
            "servicenowInstanceVersion"
          ]
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "repositoryEndpointMetadata"
      ]
    },
    "repositoryConfigurations": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "knowledgeArticle": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "indexFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "indexFieldType": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "enum": [
                        "STRING",
                        "DATE",
                        "STRING_LIST"
                      ]
                    },
                    "dataSourceFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "dateFieldFormat": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "indexFieldName",
                    "indexFieldType",
                    "dataSourceFieldName"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        },
        "attachment": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "indexFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "indexFieldType": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "enum": [
                        "STRING",
                        "LONG",
                        "DATE",
                        "STRING_LIST"
                      ]
                    },
                    "dataSourceFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "dateFieldFormat": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "indexFieldName",
                    "indexFieldType",
                    "dataSourceFieldName"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        },
        "serviceCatalog": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "indexFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "indexFieldType": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "enum": [
                        "STRING",
                        "DATE",
                        "STRING_LIST"
                      ]
                    },
                    "dataSourceFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "dateFieldFormat": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "indexFieldName",
                    "indexFieldType",
                    "dataSourceFieldName"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        },
        "incident": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "indexFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "indexFieldType": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "enum": [
                        "STRING",
                        "DATE",
                        "STRING_LIST"
                      ]
                    },
                    "dataSourceFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "dateFieldFormat": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "indexFieldName",
                    "indexFieldType",
                    "dataSourceFieldName"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "maxFileSizeInMegaBytes": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "isCrawlKnowledgeArticle": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isCrawlKnowledgeArticleAttachment": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "includePublicArticlesOnly": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "knowledgeArticleFilter": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "incidentQueryFilter": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "serviceCatalogQueryFilter": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "isCrawlServiceCatalog": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isCrawlServiceCatalogAttachment": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isCrawlActiveServiceCatalog": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isCrawlInactiveServiceCatalog": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isCrawlIncident": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isCrawlIncidentAttachment": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isCrawlActiveIncident": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isCrawlInactiveIncident": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "applyACLForKnowledgeArticle": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "applyACLForServiceCatalog": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "applyACLForIncident": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "incidentStateType": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "Open",
              "Open - Unassigned",
              "Resolved",
              "All"
            ]
          }
        },
        "knowledgeArticleTitleRegExp": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "serviceCatalogTitleRegExp": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "incidentTitleRegExp": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "inclusionFileTypePatterns": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "exclusionFileTypePatterns": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "inclusionFileNamePatterns": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "exclusionFileNamePatterns": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      },
      "required": []
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
			"enum": [
			  "SERVICENOWV2",
			  "SERVICENOW"
			]
    },
    "enableIdentityCrawler": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "syncMode": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "FORCED_FULL_CRAWL",
        "FULL_CRAWL"
      ]
    },
    "secretArn": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 20,
      "maxLength": 2048
    }
  },
  "version": {
    "type": "string",
    "anyOf": [
      {
        "pattern": "1.0.0"
      }
    ]
  },
  "required": [
    "connectionConfiguration",
    "repositoryConfigurations",
    "syncMode",
    "additionalProperties",
    "secretArn",
    "type"
  ]
}

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The following table provides information about important JSON keys to configure.

Configuration	Description
`connectionConfiguration`	Configuration information for the endpoint for the data source.
`repositoryEndpointMetadata`	The endpoint information for the data source.
`hostUrl`	The ServiceNow host URL. For example, `your-domain.service-now.com`.
`authType`	The type of authentication you are using, either `basicAuth` or `OAuth2`.
`servicenowInstanceVersion`	The ServiceNow version you are using. You can choose between Tokyo, San Diego, Rome, Vancouver, and Others.
`repositoryConfigurations`	Configuration information for the content of the data source. For example, configuring specific types of content and field mappings.
`knowledgeArticle` `attachment` `serviceCatalog` `incident`	A list of ServiceNow objects that Amazon Q crawls and maps the attributes of to Amazon Q index field names.
`additionalProperties`	Additional configuration options for your content in your data source.
`maxFileSizeInMegaBytes`	Specify the file size limit in MBs that Amazon Q will crawl. Amazon Q will crawl only the files within the size limit you define. The default file size is 50MB. The maximum file size should be greater than 0MB and less than or equal to 50MB.
`knowledgeArticleFilter` `incidentQueryFilter` `serviceCatalogQueryFilter`	Specify specific knowledge articles, incident queries, and service catalog queries to crawl.
`incidentStateType`	Specify incidents to crawl by state type: whether `Open`, `Open - Unassigned` `Resolved` or `All`.
`knowledgeArticleTitleRegExp` `serviceCatalogTitleRegExp` `incidentTitleRegExp` `inclusionFileTypePatterns` `exclusionFileTypePatterns` `inclusionFileNamePatterns` `exclusionFileNamePatterns`	A list of regular expression patterns to include and exclude specific files in your ServiceNow data source. Files that match the patterns are included in the index. Files that don't match the patterns are excluded from the index. If a file matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence and the file isn't included in the index.
`isCrawlKnowledgeArticle` `isCrawlKnowledgeArticleAttachment` `includePublicArticlesOnly` `isCrawlServiceCatalog` `isCrawlServiceCatalogAttachment` `isCrawlActiveServiceCatalog` `isCrawlInactiveServiceCatalog` `isCrawlIncident` `isCrawlIncidentAttachment` `isCrawlActiveIncident` `isCrawlInactiveIncident` `applyACLForKnowledgeArticle` `applyACLForServiceCatalog` `applyACLForIncident`	`true` to index ServiceNow knowledge articles, service catalogs, incidents, and attachments and their ACLs.
`type`	The type of data source. Specify `SERVICENOWV2` as your data source type.
`enableIdentityCrawler`	`true` to activate identity crawler. Identity crawler is activated by default. Crawling identity information on users and groups with access to specific documents is useful for user context filtering. Search results are filtered based on the user or their group access to documents. Note Amazon Q Business crawls identity information from your data source by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents end users have access to. For more information, see Identity crawler.
`syncMode`	Specify whether Amazon Q should update your index by syncing all documents or only new, modified, and deleted documents. You can choose between the following options: Use `FORCED_FULL_CRAWL` to freshly re-crawl all content and replace existing content each time your data source syncs with your index Use `FULL_CRAWL` to incrementally crawl only new, modified, and deleted content each time your data source syncs with your index
`secretARN`	The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an AWS Secrets Manager secret that contains the key-value pairs required to connect to your ServiceNow . The secret must contain a JSON structure with the following keys: `{ "username": "user name", "password": "password" }` If you use OAuth2 authentication, your secret must contain a JSON structure with the following keys: `{ "username": "user name", "password": "password", "clientId": "client id", "clientSecret": "client secret" }`
`version`	The version of the template that's currently supported.

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Connecting Amazon Q Business to ServiceNow using APIs

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