Rick,
 
the attachments are stored in the database. In your case in table 
B97C611111115. And this one you forgot to update. The path you're seeing in B97 
is the original file location. 
 
HTH
 
Kind Regards Conny

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Von: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] Im Auftrag von Rick Westbrock
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. März 2009 20:41
An: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Betreff: Re: Adding leading zeroes to Request ID


** 
Thanks for the tip about the B table Conny; due to multiple form dependencies I 
ended up using the direct SQL method rather than rrrChive to update a total of 
six tables.
 
I did run into a small issue with attachments (luckily there are only 18 
records out of 100,000 that have an attachment). The attachments show up in the 
pool when the record is displayed, including the correct icon for the file type 
(e.g. Adobe icon for PDF files). However when I click to save or view an 
attachment I get an "ARERR [556] Missing data in the SQL database: 
(B97C611111115)" error. I checked the DB and that field appears to be the full 
path plus file name at the time the file was attached to the record.
 
For record number 097957 here's what the DB showed in the B97 table after 
updating the C1 column (and the request ID on the form) and which threw the 
error:
 
097957 \\emcdm2\groups\mis\remedy\Licensing and Maintenance\2009 
Maintenance\SupportQuote186492-Basic.pdf 14355 8976
 
 
In the WUT I deleted the attached file and then added it back in and saved the 
request. Now I can display the attachment with no problem and this is what that 
same record in the B97 table:
 
097957 \\emcdm2\groups\MIS\Remedy\Licensing and Maintenance\2009 
Maintenance\SupportQuote186492-Basic.pdf 14355 8976 
 
The only difference is that one of the sub-directories is all lower-case before 
and all upper-case afterwards. Does anyone have an explanation of why that 
would cause a problem since I'm on MS SQL which is supposed to be 
case-insensitive. I was under the impression that attachments were stored in 
the database but the info above leads me to believe that it's actually just 
storing a pointer to the real location of the files; that would be a problem 
since most of the other attachments show a path on a D: drive.
 
 
-Rick
 




Single Remedy application server: 
Windows Server 2003 SP 2 
IIS 6.0 
ARS 7.0.1 patch 6 
E-mail Engine 7.0.1 p6 
Mid-Tier 7.0.1 p6 
Tomcat 5.5 

Remote Database Server: 
Windows Server 2003 SP 2 
SQL Server 2000 (8.0.76 SP 3 Standard Edition) 

_________________________________ 
Rick Westbrock 
PETCO Telecom Engineer 
ri...@petco.com <mailto:ri...@petco.com>  


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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Conny Martin
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:44 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: AW: Adding leading zeroes to Request ID


** 
**
If there are attachment fields on your form don't forget to update the B tables.
 
Kind Regards Conny

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Von: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] Im Auftrag von Joe DeSouza
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009 19:42
An: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Betreff: Re: Adding leading zeroes to Request ID


** 
The key is you will need to know your system well.
 
If you want to do what you want to, you will need to know the different 
relationships that form might have with other forms (such as association tables 
if you are using the OTB applications etc), where the Request ID is used in the 
relationships..
 
Off course you also will need to modify the corresponding entries in the H 
tables as well.
 
It would be possible to write a SQL script to achieve what you want so long as 
you know your system well..
 
Joe


________________________________

From: Rick Westbrock <ri...@petco.com>
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:05:26 AM
Subject: Adding leading zeroes to Request ID

** 

I ran into a problem today on a form where some previous admin had set the 
Request ID field (1) to only five digits so after case number 99999 was created 
the NextID value in the arschema table incremented to 100000 but the form 
obviously couldn't create a case with that number so the agents were seeing 
error messages.

My backup admin bumped the field length up to six digits so that agents could 
immediately start logging tickets again but I plan to increase the field length 
up to 10 or 15 digits. My question for everyone is what is the best practice to 
go back and zero-pad all of the existing tickets with five-digit Request ID 
numbers? It's not strictly necessary for operations but when search results 
come up defaulting to sort by Request ID these new six-digit request ID cases 
come up at the top of the list which is not intuitive at all for end users.

I do have a dev server on which I will test whatever method I decide upon first 
and I can delete records if needed as part of testing.


-Rick 



Single Remedy application server: 
Windows Server 2003 SP 2 
IIS 6.0 
ARS 7.0.1 patch 6 
E-mail Engine 7.0.1 p6 
Mid-Tier 7.0.1 p6 
Tomcat 5.5 

Remote Database Server: 
Windows Server 2003 SP 2 
SQL Server 2000 (8.0.76 SP 3 Standard Edition) 

_________________________________ 
Rick Westbrock 
PETCO Telecom Engineer 
ri...@petco.com <mailto:ri...@petco.com> 


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