OK, you guys keep throwing my name into this... So I feel like I should
at least make some comment...

Here it is. 

If you are a consultant, someone who bills another company for your
time, regardless of where you are from and what your background is...
You should know your stuff, you should know far more than the basics and
you should have read the manuals/pdfs at some point in your Remedy
career. 

If you are an employee of a company, you hopefully have access to
manuals and pdf files and Remedy support.  Hopefully, when you took the
job as Remedy Admin/Developer, you took the time to read the manuals.  

I have asked many questions on this list over the years.  I will confess
that 1 out of 10 times, I may not have read the manual fully or didn't
fully understand the concept before asking the question.  BUT, I never
presented myself to my employer or anyone else as being an expert, so I
think it is ok.

Where Phil is concerned, I have hired Phil as a consultant and have
learned a lot from him over the years.  Both for a fee and for FREE.
What he gives to the Remedy community in invaluable.  The same goes for
Rick.  I've never hired him (he lives to far away), but have learned a
lot from him too!  Then there is Gidd.  Never hired him, but any time I
have ever asked him a question either on or off the list, I get an
insightful answer!

All that being said... There are some people on this list that are
consultants, that appear not to have been trained properly and appear
not to have bothered reading the manuals/pdf files or the ARSList FAQ.
They do no give any indication of who they are and where they work
(Identify yourself), they do no give any indication of their environment
(Identify your system) and they ask some very basic questions.  Heck, I
can even answer some of them.

This is a fantastic community.  We share all kinds of information.
Humor.  Life events and more.  Sometimes things touch a nerve or rub one
of us the wrong way and threads like this go one until Dan shuts it
down... Oh Dan??????? 

So, before you ask what an Active Link is or how to do a Push Fields
action, read the manual/pdf. 

That is my .02 



-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:24 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: OT: Lazy posters

Preach it, brother!  I'm not the admin, nor am I Claire (there could
only one Claire!), so I'll let others admonish people like Carl to
actually contribute something before insulting longtime and substantial
contributors like Phil.

But Phil and Gidd are right, and it's high time for some people to get a
wake-up call with a clue-by-4.

** DISCLAIMER **  This does NOT apply to about 98% of the posters to
this list.  This is not telling newbies "Go away".  This is not an
attempt to scare anyone away.  My stated comments are my own.

Here's the progression, for those apparently new to such processes.

1) You encounter a problem with a Remedy product.
2) You try to fix it yourself.
3) You seek help from your co-workers (if any).
4) You read the manuals and check the Remedy KB to see if there's some
tidbit of information that might help with that process.
5) Repeat steps 2-4 at least until the most apparent solutions have been
tried.
6) You contact Remedy Support and/or the list.
7) You (probably) receive help from Remedy Support and/or the list.

The ARSList is here to help people who have first made a substantial
effort to help themselves.  It is intended to be an aid to, not a
substitute for, learning how to do your job.  While we were all newbies
at some point, and we don't mind helping other newbies gain experience,
there are a few people, including several from an offshore organization,
who have shown a consistent pattern of asking basic questions to the
list instead of taking the time to read the manuals provided with the
product, and to actually grow their skills beyond that of newbie.

Were I one of these few individuals, or an employee of this
organization, I would hope that I would do what most posters do here -
display to the rest of my professional community that I had the skills
and initiative to at least learn to code my way out of a wet paper bag
with a map, a knife, and a flashlight.  Remedy isn't THAT hard to learn.

Executive Summary: Please respect the time of those who are trying to
help others by trying to help yourself first.

Sergeant-at-Arms:  Haul these miscreants away...  :)

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gidd Calden
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:12 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Pager Notifications.

Carl,

Do you mean that physically or verbally ?  

In defense of Phil, and he needs no defense, he makes a good Point. 
 
While it is often easier to ask a question on the list, perhaps  that
should be preceded by the requestor's research including looking at  a
manual once in awhile.  There are more then a few listers that have a
tendency to ask a question and then wait for the reply and not do any
self  help on their side....  YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE ! 

Claire, chime in here if I am to far out in left field?  Doh !!

Has Remedy stopped shipping pdf guides, manuals and reference materials
now?

My .02

Regards...Gidd

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Reenus
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:40 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Pager Notifications.

Ha, what an ass!


>From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
>To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
>Subject: Re: Pager Notifications.
>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 23:05:45 -0400
>
>Got a manual?  Ever read it?  Been to training?  We have, try it.
>-----Original message-----
>From: Mallikharjunudu_Chidella [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Mon,  8 May 2006 22:36:21 -0400
>To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
>Subject: Pager Notifications.
>
>:-) Hi list,
>:-)
>:-)
>:-) SLA have 2 notification one is "Email" and the other is "Pager". 
>Email
>:-) Notification can be created using "Send Alert or Email" and for 
>pager we :-) should use "Send Page or Run Process" option to create 
>pager :-) notification through command line statement to send a page or

>run an :-) executable.
>:-)
>:-) Can you please let me know about the command line statement to be 
>given
>:-) in the "Send Page or Run Process" for the pager notification.
>:-)
>:-) Thanks in  advance. :o)
>:-)
>:-) Thanks
>:-)
>:-) Malli
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