Blueprint Designer

Blueprint Designer is a visual data modeling tool that information architects or system admins can use to create and maintain data model blueprints on ServiceNow.

This article includes downloadable Blueprint Templates that DCM customers can use (as Draft blueprints) when designing their own blueprints. More......

Go to the DCM Home and select "Blueprint Designer" or click the Blueprint Designer link from the navigation menu to create......

Blueprints can include any tables from your ServiceNow instance.

The Blueprint Designer can define links between any two classes (or containers) in the blueprint.

Different UI Elements DCM Blueprint Designer consists of: A DCM blueprint consists of Blueprint containers and links are also known as Blueprint......

Field-level conditions and audit For more information on how the Field Setup impacts the Data Compliance, read this article. This...

The Blueprint Designer and Content Planner makes use of various graphical notation and symbols in the diagram. The blueprint diagram......

Audit Messages have Deviation Types and Audited Records have Deviation Levels. What these are and how they are used, is......

When creating or updating a blueprint, a user can enable Duplicate checking for any container used in the blueprint. Duplicate......

Audit Direction tells the audit runner how to crawl through the links in a particular blueprint. Audit always moves away......

When a blueprint version is being published, one can define "how to find the Data Provider" for the audited records.......

When designing data models with Blueprint Designer, the designer will split the blueprint into "elements" that represent unique parts of......

For more complex data modelling, advanced links provide means to define more dynamic and precise links between classes. Advanced links......

In the end, blueprints can include quite a lot of details like selected classes and their relationships, field setups and......

Blueprints can include a lot of data recorded into different tables, but you can export the whole blueprint structure from the Blueprint Designer into a single XML file to be imported into another ServiceNow instance.

Deleting items from blueprint canvas can be done in two different ways: By selecting and clicking the "Delete" key from......

DCM has automatic version management for blueprints, meaning that each time a new version of the same blueprint is created and published, the application will......

Blueprint Versions have different statuses that impact their usage and license compliance.

According to the "Consumer - Owner - Provider" model, COP-model, Consumers are processes or actors that use the data for......

Currently, when you define Data Provider Config in Blueprint Designer, you can only choose from direct User and Group reference......

The new "Life Cycle Stage" and "Life Cycle Stage Status" fields in ServiceNow CMDB are quite unique. Based on how......

The behaviour of the "model conditions" has changed in DCM R6.4, published in January 2026. Read more about the change......

"Model Conditions" are filters or conditions set for a blueprint container. Originally these were used to check if an "Application......