During the last month, my LinkedIn feed contains a huge amount of #BuildWithAES posts. ServiceNow community is not only easily building applications with the App Engine Studio, but they are sharing a huge variety of use cases, some of which very practical and useful. Especially for applications that can be bootstrapped in the matter of minutes.

During my time off last week, I also took some time and developed an application that I am planning for months, but never did because of time scarcity. It took me literally less than an hour.

My car maintenance application consists of a few tables – one main table holding data for the maintenance records and few other, storing my vehicles, a range of available gas stations, insurance providers, etc. I was able to create the tables, the flow that is responsible for the data processing as well as all the experiences I need – one for the cases when I am entering maintenance records in front of the PC and one for the cases when I want to do it on the go and just enter the records through the mobile phone. Both experiences are leveraging a record producer that collects the mandatory information, as well as some additional info it if it is available. The whole thing is then triggering some calculations to give me some statistical data – expenses per month/year, average fuel consumption, average gas price and mileage.

Now, having the newly introduced Document Intelligence in Tokyo, I am planning to implement a functionality that will do the whole data input on my behalf, reading the values straight from the picture of the bill and/or invoice. I built the whole thing from scratch, but I could use one of the available templates that are provided out of the box. Or perhaps, I could create my own template in the future.

I wish I would be able to provide some screenshots as well, but unfortunately, my PDI is offline. Again. Once it comes back to life, I will update the article. Thanks for reading