I was about to say its been there from version 3. Never really worked with 2.
David Easter pointed out that Log to Form is the new introduction.. Maybe some of you are confusing the two.. I wonder if anyone is still using these old versions :-) Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Ben Chernys Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 2:41 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help ** Log to file has been around forever. From release 2's ar.h: #define AR_FILTER_ACTION_NONE 0 #define AR_FILTER_ACTION_NOTIFY 1 /* tags for types of filter actions */ #define AR_FILTER_ACTION_MESSAGE 2 #define AR_FILTER_ACTION_LOG 3 #define AR_FILTER_ACTION_FIELDS 4 #define AR_FILTER_ACTION_PROCESS 5 typedef struct { unsigned int action; union { ARFilterActionNotify notify; ARStatusStruct message; char *logFile; ARFieldAssignList fieldList; char *process; } u; } ARFilterActionStruct; When action == LOG, logFile is the field with data. Cheers Ben Chernys Senior Software Architect Software Tool House Inc. Canada / Deutschland / Germany Mobile: +49 171 380 2329 GMT + 1 + [ DST ] Email: Ben.Chernys _AT_ softwaretoolhouse.com Web: www.softwaretoolhouse.com Check out Software Tool House's free Diary Editor. Meta-Update, our premium ARS Data tool, lets you automate your imports, migrations, in no time at all, without programming, without staging forms, without merge workflow. http://www.softwaretoolhouse.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: June 18, 2010 6:24 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help Matt, Just a further clarification....AL's don't have phasing...so the `! doesn't have any effect on them. I think the Log To File option was added in either 6.3 or 7.0...but it's been there quite a few years :) -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Perrault Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:01 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help Ok, since no one responded to my question earlier, I decided to go investigate this myself to get the answer. The `! at the end of a filter or AL, will make ALL actions fire in Phase 1, even actions that would normally fire in Phase 3. Tested with Notifications, Run Process, and Direct SQL in both ALs and Filters Something else I noticed in the Filter Action: Log To file Was this introduced in 7.x, or was it earlier? Kind of a neat feature to have. Matt P. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Perrault Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:15 AM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: Interview Questions - Please help Memory check (I think I'm over thinking this) What about Phase 3 actions in a filter? For some odd reason I was thinking that the `! only worked for phase 2 actions like push fields. Yet then I started thinking that no, it worked for Run Process and Notifications too. Which is it? I can't remember (and yes I'm being lazy by not looking it up in the doco). Maybe a better question would be to have someone describe the different phases and the different items that normally occur in them. Also, Rather than having just a list of questions that can be answered in a few words or 1 sentence and the answers easily looked up and memorized. Instead look at asking them about the projects they've worked on, how they went, the challenges they faced and how they overcame them. The other thing you may want to think about is a gradual increase in difficulty of questions. If they answer X well, then ask Y which would be a little harder, then ask Z which would be a little harder than Y, and so on. And if they can answer some of the more difficult questions, then asking about T, B, and H tables may be a waste of time, as they would most likely already know that. HTH, Matt P. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Sanford, Claire Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:46 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help I'll answer this one.... Put an '! at the end of the filter name. ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Nair, Rajesh IN BOM SISL Sent: Wed 6/16/2010 7:14 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help ** I would like to know the answer for this As per me it will not .. i know i may be wrong as not a remedy guru over here Can you force a filter to fire all actions in the first phase ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of John Atherly Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:42 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help ** I'll take number 11 What is the function of DDE-Poke? DDE-Poke is French for when you have to poke the server to get it to do what you want. __________________________________________________________________________ __ _________ John Atherly | APC by Schneider Electric | Information, Process & Organization (IPO) | Remedy Administrator / Developer Phone: +401-7899-5735 ext. 2120 | Fax: +401-789-3710 | Email: john.athe...@apcc.com <mailto: john.athe...@apcc.com> | Site: www.apc.com/ <http://www.apc.com/> | Address: 132 Fairgrounds Road, West Kingston, RI 02892 USA *** Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Ram Rudra <rambabu.ru...@gssamerica.com> Sent by: "Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" <arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> 06/16/2010 05:29 AM Please respond to arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To arslist@ARSLIST.ORG cc Subject Interview Questions - Please help Hi All, In an interview point of view, I have gathered the below questions and looking for answers. Please help. 1) What is the difference between and Active Link and a Filter? 2) What is a .def file used for? 3) What is a .arx file? 4) Who is Doug Mueller? 5) What is a use for an Active Link Guide? 6) What type of field is the "Worklog" field? 7) Name two DBMSs in which Remedy ARS can run on top of? 8) What does ARS stand for? 9) What are the core fields? 10) What does $MENU$ do? 11) What is the function of DDE-Poke? 12) What are ar.ini and ar.conf files used for? 13) Describe the features that are available by comparing ARS Ver. 6.3, 7.1 and 7.5 majorly? 14) Why ardiff utility is used for? 15) How do you deploy your application on web? 16) When and in what situation you use workflow log, arerror.log, arfilter.log, aresc.log? 17) Explain the actions available in active link which are not in Filters. Explain why it is not. 18) Why ardiff utility is used for? 19) What is the primary table in the AR System data dictionary? 20) How does the AR System manage the data you see in Remedy Forms? 21) Without using DSO or EIE, what are your thoughts for providing a 'STANDARDIZED' methodology for interfacing/integrating with Remedy applications. This customer was actually looking to use C.I.M. or some other open standard solution to interface with Remedy.... what you say? 22) How do you troubleshoot AR System server outages to restore access to the system? 23) How does mid-tier work and where does it fit in the client server architecture? 24) Describe how filters work? They were actually looking how filters work in different phases... which led to the next question. 25) Can you force a filter to fire all actions in the first phase? 26) List all of the possible uses for guides. They were looking for walking tables? 27) What is walking tables? 28) when you use CMDBDriver.exe command line utility? 29) When you use arreload.exe command line utility? 30) how you reset the application administrator / demo password if you forget it? 31) When you use arsignal command line utility? 32) When you use runmacro command line utility? 33) When you use archgid command line utility? 34) How many table types are available in ARSystem Database and explain them? Thanks & Regards, Ram Rudra _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
