Foundation Data Sync (FDS) enables the structured, periodic sharing of data from provider to consumer instances. It ensures that consumers have access to accurate, up-to-date foundational data from providers, supporting better service delivery and operational alignment.
FDS is a data synchronization mechanism that enables a provider instance to share foundational data with consumer instances on a scheduled basis, such as daily, weekly, or monthly.
FDS supports all CMDB tables and the following non-CMDB tables: Asset, Company, User, Group, Location, Department, Stockroom, Product Model, Knowledge, Hardware Model, Consumable Model, Hardware, and Consumable.
- Create and Publish an Offering: Define the data that you, as a provider want to share with the Service Exchange consumer.
- Receive and manage a Offering Request: Customers with Foundation Data Sync for Consumers can request that offering from their ServiceNow instance.
- Refine, Validate, and Send the data with Subscription Items: Once requested, Foundation Data Sync will pre-generate the subscription items defined in the offering, which can then be filtered further by the provider if desired. When ready, a provider can then test and validate the data sharing before sending in full.
Foundation Data Sync for Providers — v2.4.10
Fixed
- Custom fields from a consumer are now preserved on offering/subscription items after provider acceptance.
Service Exchange for Providers — v2.4.10
Fixed
- Remote Choice Definitions with Account Secure could fail lookups for external integration users. (PRB2054434)
- An emoji in the off-boarding message blocked translation when switching languages. (PRB2032117)
Changed
- Provider Task activity stream now defaults to Additional Comments instead of Work Notes.
Foundation Data Sync — v2.4.10
Fixed
- Multi-value list fields could truncate when a later batch sent more data than the first. (PRB2068326)
- Requesting an offering referencing a table missing on the requester blocked further requests. (PRB2063217)
- Initial payload sync could duplicate or skip records if source data changed mid-sync. (PRB2061531)
- Batches after the first could stop processing during bulk sync. (PRB2068330)
- Knowledge article attachment sync now correctly handles tables that extend a base table.
Changed
- Synced KB articles now default to including the provider name in the target KB name.
Service Exchange Base — v2.4.10
Fixed
- Near-simultaneous updates on provider and consumer could drop one side's change. (PRB2029744)
- output.ignore=true on a transform didn't actually exclude the field from the sync payload. (PRB2066768)
- The Case table lacked a proper label/plural, showing an auto-generated name to some users. (PRB1923483)
- A multi-row variable set on a record producer overwrote all rows with the last row's value. (PRB2061638)
Changed
- Restart Connection after a clone/upgrade now also reactivates capture definitions automatically.
New
- Added a scheduled sweep to reactivate capture definitions left inactive after a clone/upgrade.
Service Exchange Remote Process Sync Transport — v2.4.10
Fixed
- Onboarding could time out on slow connections, leaving OAuth credentials empty. (PRB2064896)
- OAuth credentials during onboarding were sent via URL query params instead of the request body. (PRB2060125)
Transporter — v2.4.10
No functional changes.
Service Exchange Health — v2.4.10
Fixed
- Integration-user-naming scan check didn't validate the required prefix. (PRB2023585)
- Some pre-onboarding scan failures didn't generate an Issue record, hiding the block reason. (PRB2025384)
- Tightened ACLs on Health records; removed a console log exposing connection data. (PRB2071380)
- Fixed message alignment and a duplicate message on the admin-group scan check. (PRB2067053)
- Connection Dashboard now shows accurate inbound/outbound transport queue backlog counts.
Changed
- Consolidated two magic-link scan checks into one, gated on whether magic links are enabled.
New
- Added a clearer down-connection warning about data loss after 7+ days.
- Added a notification to admins when the Admin group has no users.
- Added warning messages for missing roles (itil, cmdb_read, personalize, import_admin).
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Application Runtime Policy
- Required plugins and products
- Foundation Data Sync (com.sn_fds)
- Foundation Data Sync for Providers (com.sn_fds_pro)
- Dependencies:
- Service Exchange Base (com.sn_sb)
- Service Exchange for Providers (com.sn_sb_pro)
- Properties that need to be created or set to activate the content pack: N/A
- Affected business rules: N/A
- Affected script includes: N/A
- .jar files that need to get uploaded, if applicable: N/A