Couldn't you do this by also looking at the Location information instead? If not location, what criteria is used to determine which group gets assigned the work? In our case, we use location because each location has their own local I.T. help, separate from the actual help desk. If there is some other criteria for you, I would pore over the Assignment Engine documentation to see what else you can assign on that would work, instead of customizing it.
Shawn Pierson From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathy Morris Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 3:35 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Categorizations... ** Hi All, For Operational categorizations, I have followed the Remedy BMC recommended format - I believe in alignment with Rick Cook's helpful guidelines. Category 1 - Verb Category 2 - What we are servicing Category 3: Asset We are having trouble getting our organizational structure to fit into this model. We want this to work. The verb works fine. The Asset works fine. We have multiple business areas that may provide service Category 2. We are concerned that Category 2 may become quite extensive as a result. For example: We have two divisions Help Desk and Client Processing Division that may install Email on a desktop. In this model our Operational Categorization would be: Category 1 - install Category 2 - Email Category 3 - Desktop For automated routing - we would not be able to know which group to route this ticket to. I had advised the team not to have 4 tiers. The team has asked that I develop an additional 1st level to filter the Operational Categorizations based upon the Business Unit that is going to provide the service. Which is really adding a 4th tier. My concern is that I have always been told to avoid 4 tiers and I know this is going to be spread across the entire applications (Change, Asset, Service Levels, etc.... ). Are we going down the wrong path here? The structure they want is Business Unit: Help Desk Category 1 - install Category 2 - Email Category 3 - Desktop If the 1st level is equal to "Help Desk" the hierarchy would filter based upon the values the filter the categories based upon the Help Desk categorizations. The team wants this enhancement to be in the Help Desk form only. However to do automatic assignment we would need to change the Assignment Configuration form also. ________________________________ The Famous, the Infamous, the Lame - in your browser. Get the TMZ Toolbar Now<http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014>! __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ Private and confidential as detailed here: http://www.sug.com/disclaimers/default.htm#Mail . If you cannot access the link, please e-mail sender. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
