- Banner
- Application navigator
- Content Frame
- User Menu
The banner contains the logo, user menu, and global navigation
controls.
The banner has the following components: - User Menu: Contains the following:
- Profile: Current user profile
- Impersonate User: Lets system administrators view the UI (for example, lists and forms) as the selected user. Impersonating is useful when testing permissions or customizing the UI for a user's role.
- Elevate Roles: Lets system administrators apply the admin security role for the current session. Some features require this role.
- Logout: Log out of the instance
- Toggle Connect Sidebar:Used to toggle Connect Chat real-time messaging on/off
- Help Provides links to What's New and User Guide, and lets you search product documentation
- Global search: Search for text in all ServiceNow applications
- Gear icon: Allows users to define their system settings.
Selecting a module opens the page, list, or form in the content frame.
The content frame displays the page that is selected in the application navigator, for example:
- Homepage widgets
- Lists that display records in a table
- Forms that display a single record
- Service catalog of items that can be ordered
- The Live Feed social application with posts and other shared content
- Knowledge base articles
