I think it will be useful so thank you for pointing me to that direction.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2015 2:12 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Query for showing Form menu items..

Hi,

My point was that it finds the forms and does the documentation for you.

        Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se

> I don't think there is a need to add any custom code as the code that is
> currently attached to those menus are tested to be fully functional. I
just
> wanted to query their DB to locate all the forms they had those menus and
> icons on the menu bar so I could document all the forms that would need
the
> attention of the developers to change those to buttons or navigation
items.
>
> While your def file converter seems like a useful tool that I could
suggest
> to them after documenting the lists, right now I was primarily interested
in
> querying and documenting them as "risk items" that would need some
> alteration so that the overall functionality of their current apps remain
> the same post upgrade.
>
> Cheers
>
> Joe
>
> PS: Useful tool by the way...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 3:26 PM
> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: Query for showing Form menu items..
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, you need to move it around and resize it as appropriate.
>
> You need not run it on their machines. It works on def-files and can be
run
> anywhere.
>
> If you do not import the resulting def, nothing can happen.
>
> It converts everything, so I do not know the end result. I suspect that
BMC
> has no Base Mode buttons defined as drop-down menus, as they would not
work
> in
> Mid-Tier. If that is the case, they would only have Custom or Overlay
> drop-down menus, and you would be fine importing the end result.
>
> Come to think of it, it might be that I need to add some kind of property
to
> the Nav-field to put it in the proper Custom mode... Let me know if you
need
> that, and I will look into it.
>
> Regardless, use it to do a report of the existing drop-down menus.
>
>         Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011)
>
> Ask the Remedy Licensing Experts (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12/13):
> * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing.
> * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs.
> Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se.
>
>> @ Fred,
>> Yes I know about them being nothing but merely buttons presented in a
>> different way and was trying to find a flag or a display property that
>> easily differentiated them from the rest of the control fields. But ran
> into
>> other things I thought I could do first so will circle back to this again
>> later.
>>
>> @ Misi,
>> That sounds like a handy tool. Where does the converted navigation item
go
>> on the form - does it fall in a random place and then it needs to be
moved
>> around as is necessary?
>>
>> I might not be able to download it and use it on their system as they may
> or
>> may not allow that to be done, but I can certainly recommend that they
>> should to make their lives a little more easy.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
>> [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky
>> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 5:35 PM
>> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
>> Subject: Re: Query for showing Form menu items..
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a tool that converts the old navigation menu to a Nav-field.
>>
>> Just export the def, run the tool, and you will get a new def with the
> forms
>> that needed conversion.
>>
>> Import it and reposition/size the Nav-field and you are done.
>>
>> https://rrr.se/cgi/tools/main?tool=rrrMenuToNav
>>
>> You will get a list of forms that needed conversion.
>>
>>         Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011)
>>
>> Ask the Remedy Licensing Experts (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12/13):
>> * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing.
>> * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs.
>> Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se.
>>
>>> The Toolbar Menu Items are just buttons (like any other on the form) so
>> the
>>> difference must be in the display properties
>>>
>>> Fred
>>>
>>> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
>>> [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
>>> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 1:11 PM
>>> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
>>> Subject: Query for showing Form menu items..
>>>
>>> **
>>> For forms designed for Remedy User Tool, there was a way to create Form
>> menu
>>> (buttons essentially that showed up in the Form Menu items part and
> custom
>>> tool bar icons that appeared next to the OTB record macro icon).
>>>
>>> How were these represented internally in the database? I was about to
>> build a
>>> query to list me forms that had this and another query to list all the
>> custom
>>> form menu items and those little custom toolbar buttons.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
>> ___
>>> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org
>>> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
>>>
>>
>>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
>> ___
>> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org
>> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
>>
>>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
> ___
>> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org
>> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
>>
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
> ___
> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org
> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________
___
> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org
> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
>

____________________________________________________________________________
___
UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org
"Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"

_______________________________________________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org
"Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"

Reply via email to