The fix was a change on the server side.  The arf file that the server exports 
and is used by the WUT included the __o extension for form overlays.  The 9.0 
server no longer uses this internally – you can see in the arschema table that 
a form and its overlay now have the same name and schemaid, relying on the 
overlayProp value for differentiation – so you could argue it just so happens 
that the client exposed a server defect.

Mark

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
Sent: 22 December 2015 16:26
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Something to be aware of - the User Tool cannot work with overlaid 
forms on a 9.0 server - FIXED

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Jason,
The major difference between this and those 'other tools'...is that they 
actually maintain the other ones...this is a tool that they haven't put out a 
release for in several years, and don't plan on (as far as I know of) at any 
point in the future....

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Jason Miller 
<jason.mil...@gmail.com<mailto:jason.mil...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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I was thinking the same thing. This is a dangerous precedent. Just as people 
are finally accepting WUT is dead it gets some new life (not that I am going to 
complain).

Although thinking about it a little more... there are a number of tools that 
BMC doesn't officially support but do maintain. Looks like WUT might fall into 
this class now?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 12:48 AM Thomas Miskiewicz 
<tmisk...@gmail.com<mailto:tmisk...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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Thanks for the update Mark. I thought the User Tool is dead.

On 18 Dec 2015, at 09:45, Walters, Mark 
<mark_walt...@bmc.com<mailto:mark_walt...@bmc.com>> wrote:

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UPDATE – this was fixed in the 9.0 SP1 server – the User Tool can use overlaid 
forms again.

Knowledge Base article 
KA427109<https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=content&id=S:KA427109>

Some changes in the server in version 9.0 mean that the User Tool is unable to 
work with overlaid forms.  Searches, creates and modifies result in a 303 Form 
does not exist on server error as the client references the form name with the 
__o extension which the server does not recognise.

Mark

Knowledge Article ID:



KA427109

Version:



0.1

Available To:



External

Status:



Unpublished

Updated:



06/15/2015



Problem
The Remedy User Tool client is unable to create records or perform searches 
when using overlaid forms from an ARS 9.0 server.  The form can be opened but 
any other operations result in an ARERR 303 Form does not exist on server error.
Solution
 This is due to changes in the way overlays are stored in the 9.0 metadata. The 
__o extension is no longer used but the .arf form definition which is exported 
by the server, and used by the User Tool, still includes it.  The client tries 
to use the form name from the .arf file when sending API calls to the server 
but the server does not recognise the name and returns the 303 error.
A defect has been created to track this (SW00490959) but, as the User Tool is 
no longer supported, it is not clear whether this will be addressed.

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