Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect

2009-09-02 Thread Stephen Heider
Meenakshinathan,

If you decide to switch from using Diary fields to a work log form, here is
a free utility that will create the work log form entries by copying your
existing Diary fields.

http://arswiki.org/projects/dotnetutil  It's named ARS_CreateDiaryForm.

HTH

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arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Matt Reinfeldt
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:19 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

Meenakshinathan,

As a different approach, don't use a diary field for those comments... store
each user's feedback/comments as a separate entry in a "work log" form.
Relate each entry back using the Instance ID of the ticket.  You can display
them easily enough in a table field, and/or report off of them as needed.

Just a thought.

Matt R.

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Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-02 Thread Stephen Heider
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:21 PM, John Sundberg  wrote:

> **
>
> Actually - I would consider the "fuzzing technique" for testing.  Cause --
> all testing a " " would do is catch the space problem.
>
> Fuzzing would try tons of things you would never think of. (tabs / Null \0
> / etc.)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing
>
>
> Also - I would make the claim that - reporting is easier when the comments
> are in a related table.
> (most (maybe all) reporting tools know how to use related tables -- NONE of
> the reporting tools I know of know how to parse a Remedy diary field)
>
>
> Reporting -- it would be easier to produce a report of "high touch tickets"
> by reporting on all tickets where comment.count > 10 -- or something like
> that - if the comments were in a separate table.
>
>
>
> My guess as to why the diary field exists (and still exists) - is two
> reasons.
> 1) Original Remedy did not have push fields (or tables like we now know
> them) -- and so the diary field solved the problem.
> 2) Diary fields == more licenses -- updating a simple status would update
> the worklog - forcing a modify of the record - hence license used -- aka
> $$$.
>
>
>
> -John
>
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Matt Reinfeldt wrote:
>
> **Warren,
>
> I, like John, stopped using Diary fields long ago.  As far as reporting
> goes, yes, a join or a sub-report is what it takes to bring that in, but I
> don’t think that’s a big deal, because… (wait for it…) at least you can then
> view it in a readable format!  Have you seen a Diary field in a report?  J
> Honestly, though, we don’t pull those particular records into much more than
> the ‘print ticket’ reports, as there’s no need.
>
> As to how it was “missed”… good question, and I think that one more use
> case has just been defined for the QA team.  (note to self: test not only
> NULL values, but a single space, too!  … Honestly, I can see how it was
> missed…. The real question is, how long will it take to get a fix out?)
>
> Matt R.
>
> *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [
> mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] *On Behalf Of *Warren
> Baltimore
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:53 PM
> *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> *Subject:* Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.
>
> **
> I would think because it already is there!
> As I sit here thinking about it, I can see some nice things about the
> seperate form, but doesn't it create an added complication when it comes to
> Reporting?  It's one more join that would have to be supported for
> reporting?
>
> Or am I missing something here?
>
> I'm very curious about this!
>
> Oh, and the bugthat is incredibly bad!  How do you miss that one?
>
>
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Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread John Sundberg



Actually - I would consider the "fuzzing technique" for testing.   
Cause -- all testing a " " would do is catch the space problem.


Fuzzing would try tons of things you would never think of. (tabs /  
Null \0 / etc.)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing


Also - I would make the claim that - reporting is easier when the  
comments are in a related table.
(most (maybe all) reporting tools know how to use related tables --  
NONE of the reporting tools I know of know how to parse a Remedy diary  
field)



Reporting -- it would be easier to produce a report of "high touch  
tickets" by reporting on all tickets where comment.count > 10 -- or  
something like that - if the comments were in a separate table.




My guess as to why the diary field exists (and still exists) - is two  
reasons.
1) Original Remedy did not have push fields (or tables like we now  
know them) -- and so the diary field solved the problem.
2) Diary fields == more licenses -- updating a simple status would  
update the worklog - forcing a modify of the record - hence license  
used -- aka $$$.




-John



On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Matt Reinfeldt wrote:

**
Warren,

I, like John, stopped using Diary fields long ago.  As far as  
reporting goes, yes, a join or a sub-report is what it takes to bring  
that in, but I don’t think that’s a big deal, because… (wait for it…)  
at least you can then view it in a readable format!  Have you seen a  
Diary field in a report?  J  Honestly, though, we don’t pull those  
particular records into much more than the ‘print ticket’ reports, as  
there’s no need.


As to how it was “missed”… good question, and I think that one more  
use case has just been defined for the QA team.  (note to self: test  
not only NULL values, but a single space, too!  … Honestly, I can see  
how it was missed…. The real question is, how long will it take to get  
a fix out?)


Matt R.

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] On Behalf Of Warren Baltimore

Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:53 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

**
I would think because it already is there!
As I sit here thinking about it, I can see some nice things about the  
seperate form, but doesn't it create an added complication when it  
comes to Reporting?  It's one more join that would have to be  
supported for reporting?


Or am I missing something here?

I'm very curious about this!

Oh, and the bugthat is incredibly bad!  How do you miss that one?

Warren

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Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
Warren,

 

I, like John, stopped using Diary fields long ago.  As far as reporting
goes, yes, a join or a sub-report is what it takes to bring that in, but I
don't think that's a big deal, because. (wait for it.) at least you can then
view it in a readable format!  Have you seen a Diary field in a report?  J
Honestly, though, we don't pull those particular records into much more than
the 'print ticket' reports, as there's no need. 

 

As to how it was "missed". good question, and I think that one more use case
has just been defined for the QA team.  (note to self: test not only NULL
values, but a single space, too!  . Honestly, I can see how it was missed..
The real question is, how long will it take to get a fix out?)

 

Matt R.

 

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[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Warren Baltimore
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:53 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

 

** 

I would think because it already is there!  
As I sit here thinking about it, I can see some nice things about the
seperate form, but doesn't it create an added complication when it comes to
Reporting?  It's one more join that would have to be supported for
reporting?

 

Or am I missing something here?

 

I'm very curious about this!

 

Oh, and the bugthat is incredibly bad!  How do you miss that one?

 

Warren


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Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread Thad K Esser
Patrick,

I am on 7.1 patch 5 (on AIX, Oracle 10).

In some simple testing  (In all tests, the diary field has previous
values):
Case 1 - In the user tool, put a space in a diary field and save.
Result: Diary field contents retained.

Case 2 - Use a filter push action to push a space to a diary field on
another record
Result: Diary field contents retained.

Case 3 - Use a filter push action to push a field that has a null value to
a diary field on another record
Result: Diary field contents retained.

Sounds like this is just a 7.5 issue.

Thad Esser
Remedy Developer
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** how old is this? ars 7.1?

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM, LJ Longwing  wrote:
  That is a HUGE defect, did they say when they expect to have a patch out
  for
  it?

  -Original Message-
  From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
  [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
  Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 2:13 AM
  To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
  Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

  BMC announced this as a product defect SW00342702. i am going to modify
  all
  my workflows that not to push any empty or null values from a character
  field to a diary field. Just want to share this info to you all.

  Issue Summary
  * Have a diary field and submit a new comment on it.
  * Try to add a another new comment with blank space (" ") and modify the
  request.
  * It replaces all the old comments with null values.
  *via workflow if you push null it also replaces all the old comments with
  null values.

  Meenakshinathan


  On Aug 31, 8:12 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
  > Even via filter if you push a null value it deletes the previous text.
  >
  > In our application, our users are accessing a display only form to
  > enter the comments, this comments are get stored in regular form diary
  > field.
  > Some users may type comments and some not. By your solution, i need to
  > look for both null and space and replace a default text and the actual
  > user may say that how it come without typing it ?.
  >
  > Anyway thanks for your suggestion, if BMC is not giving the solution,
  > i am going to take your solution.
  >
  > On Aug 31, 8:04 pm, Rick Cook  wrote:
  >
  >
  >
  >
  >
  > > For now, I would recommend putting a Filter in place that will detect
  a

Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread Jarl Grøneng
2009/9/1 Warren Baltimore :
>
> Oh, and the bugthat is incredibly bad!  How do you miss that one?
>
> Warren

Agree on that!!!
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Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread Warren Baltimore
I would think because it already is there!
As I sit here thinking about it, I can see some nice things about the
seperate form, but doesn't it create an added complication when it comes to
Reporting?  It's one more join that would have to be supported for
reporting?

Or am I missing something here?

I'm very curious about this!

Oh, and the bugthat is incredibly bad!  How do you miss that one?

Warren

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:15 PM, John Sundberg  wrote:

> I agree with the technique.
>
> Actually - I have not used the work log for years.
>
>
>
>
> Just wondering -- why do people use it vs the other strategy?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -John
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Matt Reinfeldt wrote:
>
> Meenakshinathan,
>
> As a different approach, don't use a diary field for those comments...
> store
> each user's feedback/comments as a separate entry in a "work log" form.
> Relate each entry back using the Instance ID of the ticket.  You can
> display
> them easily enough in a table field, and/or report off of them as needed.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Matt R.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:13 AM
> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.
>
> BMC announced this as a product defect SW00342702. i am going to
> modify all my workflows that not to push any empty or null values from
> a character field to a diary field. Just want to share this info to
> you all.
>
> Issue Summary
> * Have a diary field and submit a new comment on it.
> * Try to add a another new comment with blank space (" ") and modify
> the request.
> * It replaces all the old comments with null values.
> *via workflow if you push null it also replaces all the old comments
> with null values.
>
> Meenakshinathan
>
>
> On Aug 31, 8:12 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
>
>> Even via filter if you push a null value it deletes the previous
>> text.
>>
>> In our application, our users are accessing a display only form to
>> enter the comments, this comments are get stored in regular form diary
>> field.
>> Some users may type comments and some not. By your solution, i need to
>> look for both null and space and replace a default text and the actual
>> user may say that how it come without typing it ?.
>>
>> Anyway thanks for your suggestion, if BMC is not giving the solution,
>> i am going to take your solution.
>>
>> On Aug 31, 8:04 pm, Rick Cook  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> For now, I would recommend putting a Filter in place that will detect a
>>>
>> single space and replace it with some default text.  That will buy you
> some
> time.
>
>>
>> Rick
>>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Meenakshinathan 
>>>
>>
>> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:57:58
>>> To: 
>>> Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>>>
>>
>> Yes, i created a critical issue more than a hour, but nobody was
>>> responded... waiting for their call. Thanks for the info that in 7.5
>>> patch 002 also the same error repeats..
>>>
>>
>> On Aug 31, 7:48 pm, "Eaton, Mark (DCS)" 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wow!  I just tried this on 7.5 patch 002 (HPUX 11, Oracle 10g) and it
>>>>
>>> acted as you described.  If you just put a space in a diary field and
> save
> it, the entire contents of the diary field are cleared out.  I'm thinking
> you might want to call BMC and report it.
>
>>
>> Mark
>>>>
>>>
>>  -Original Message-
>>>> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
>>>>
>>> [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
>
>>  Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:39 AM
>>>> To: arsl...@arslist.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>>>>
>>>
>>  List,
>>>>
>>>
>>  Please let me know if anyone cannot understand my question?
>>>>
>>>
>>  I am giving further more details..
>>>>
>>>
>>  Create a test from, add add a diary field into it. Open the form in
>>>>
>>> aruser and create one request. open the same request and try to add a
> space
> and save the request. Now if you the diary field values, it does

Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread John Sundberg

I agree with the technique.

Actually - I have not used the work log for years.




Just wondering -- why do people use it vs the other strategy?






-John



On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Matt Reinfeldt wrote:

Meenakshinathan,

As a different approach, don't use a diary field for those comments...  
store

each user's feedback/comments as a separate entry in a "work log" form.
Relate each entry back using the Instance ID of the ticket.  You can  
display
them easily enough in a table field, and/or report off of them as  
needed.


Just a thought.

Matt R.

-Original Message-
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:13 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

BMC announced this as a product defect SW00342702. i am going to
modify all my workflows that not to push any empty or null values from
a character field to a diary field. Just want to share this info to
you all.

Issue Summary
* Have a diary field and submit a new comment on it.
* Try to add a another new comment with blank space (" ") and modify
the request.
* It replaces all the old comments with null values.
*via workflow if you push null it also replaces all the old comments
with null values.

Meenakshinathan


On Aug 31, 8:12 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:

Even via filter if you push a null value it deletes the previous
text.

In our application, our users are accessing a display only form to
enter the comments, this comments are get stored in regular form diary
field.
Some users may type comments and some not. By your solution, i need to
look for both null and space and replace a default text and the actual
user may say that how it come without typing it ?.

Anyway thanks for your suggestion, if BMC is not giving the solution,
i am going to take your solution.

On Aug 31, 8:04 pm, Rick Cook  wrote:





For now, I would recommend putting a Filter in place that will  
detect a
single space and replace it with some default text.  That will buy you  
some

time.



Rick



-Original Message-
From: Meenakshinathan 



Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:57:58
To: 
Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help



Yes, i created a critical issue more than a hour, but nobody was
responded... waiting for their call. Thanks for the info that in 7.5
patch 002 also the same error repeats..



On Aug 31, 7:48 pm, "Eaton, Mark (DCS)" 
wrote:
Wow!  I just tried this on 7.5 patch 002 (HPUX 11, Oracle 10g) and  
it
acted as you described.  If you just put a space in a diary field and  
save
it, the entire contents of the diary field are cleared out.  I'm  
thinking

you might want to call BMC and report it.



Mark



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[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan

Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:39 AM
To: arsl...@arslist.org
Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help



List,



Please let me know if anyone cannot understand my question?



I am giving further more details..



Create a test from, add add a diary field into it. Open the form in
aruser and create one request. open the same request and try to add a  
space
and save the request. Now if you the diary field values, it does not  
contain

any values. the empty space replaces the old values in diary field.



I don;t know how to fix this, please help.



Thanks,
Meenakshinathan.



On Aug 31, 5:02 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:

Hi,



I am in Remedy 7.5 patch 001 running on SuSE linux with oracle10g
database.



I need a solution urgently in my production system. I have a diary
field which is using to store each user comments at various stages.

If

any one user is typed a space and modify the request the whole old
diary information lost. Even in ,push field action modify request
,from a empty string character field to diary field also replaces

the

old information with null.



Is there any properties is missing or do anyone can reproduce this
error? Please let me know the solutions for this. i need to fix it

as

soon as possible.



Thanks,
Meenakshinathan





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Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread LJ Longwing
Solely based on what I have seen in the list...it affects 7.5 Patch 1 and
2...one could derive from that that it also affects unpatched initial
release...

  _  

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[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of patrick zandi
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:56 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.


** how old is this? ars 7.1?


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM, LJ Longwing  wrote:


That is a HUGE defect, did they say when they expect to have a patch out for
it?


-Original Message-
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 2:13 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

BMC announced this as a product defect SW00342702. i am going to modify all
my workflows that not to push any empty or null values from a character
field to a diary field. Just want to share this info to you all.

Issue Summary
* Have a diary field and submit a new comment on it.
* Try to add a another new comment with blank space (" ") and modify the
request.
* It replaces all the old comments with null values.
*via workflow if you push null it also replaces all the old comments with
null values.

Meenakshinathan


On Aug 31, 8:12 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> Even via filter if you push a null value it deletes the previous text.
>
> In our application, our users are accessing a display only form to
> enter the comments, this comments are get stored in regular form diary
> field.
> Some users may type comments and some not. By your solution, i need to
> look for both null and space and replace a default text and the actual
> user may say that how it come without typing it ?.
>
> Anyway thanks for your suggestion, if BMC is not giving the solution,
> i am going to take your solution.
>
> On Aug 31, 8:04 pm, Rick Cook  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > For now, I would recommend putting a Filter in place that will detect a
single space and replace it with some default text.  That will buy you some
time.
>
> > Rick
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Meenakshinathan 
>
> > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:57:58
> > To: 
> > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>
> > Yes, i created a critical issue more than a hour, but nobody was
> > responded... waiting for their call. Thanks for the info that in 7.5
> > patch 002 also the same error repeats..
>
> > On Aug 31, 7:48 pm, "Eaton, Mark (DCS)"
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > Wow!  I just tried this on 7.5 patch 002 (HPUX 11, Oracle 10g) and it
acted as you described.  If you just put a space in a diary field and save
it, the entire contents of the diary field are cleared out.  I'm thinking
you might want to call BMC and report it.
>
> > > Mark
>
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > > [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
> > > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:39 AM
> > > To: arsl...@arslist.org
> > > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>
> > > List,
>
> > > Please let me know if anyone cannot understand my question?
>
> > > I am giving further more details..
>
> > > Create a test from, add add a diary field into it. Open the form in
aruser and create one request. open the same request and try to add a space
and save the request. Now if you the diary field values, it does not contain
any values. the empty space replaces the old values in diary field.
>
> > > I don;t know how to fix this, please help.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Meenakshinathan.
>
> > > On Aug 31, 5:02 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > I am in Remedy 7.5 patch 001 running on SuSE linux with
> > > > oracle10g database.
>
> > > > I need a solution urgently in my production system. I have a
> > > > diary field which is using to store each user comments at
> > > > various stages. If any one user is typed a space and modify the
> > > > request the whole old diary information lost. Even in ,push
> > > > field action modify request ,from a empty string character field
> > > > to diary field also replaces the old information with null.
>
> > > > Is there any properties is missing or do anyone can reproduce
> > > > this error? Please let me know the solutions for this. i need to
> > > > fix it as soon as possible.
&

Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
Meenakshinathan,

As a different approach, don't use a diary field for those comments... store
each user's feedback/comments as a separate entry in a "work log" form.
Relate each entry back using the Instance ID of the ticket.  You can display
them easily enough in a table field, and/or report off of them as needed.  

Just a thought.

Matt R.

-Original Message-
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:13 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

BMC announced this as a product defect SW00342702. i am going to
modify all my workflows that not to push any empty or null values from
a character field to a diary field. Just want to share this info to
you all.

Issue Summary
* Have a diary field and submit a new comment on it.
* Try to add a another new comment with blank space (" ") and modify
the request.
* It replaces all the old comments with null values.
*via workflow if you push null it also replaces all the old comments
with null values.

Meenakshinathan


On Aug 31, 8:12 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> Even via filter if you push a null value it deletes the previous
> text.
>
> In our application, our users are accessing a display only form to
> enter the comments, this comments are get stored in regular form diary
> field.
> Some users may type comments and some not. By your solution, i need to
> look for both null and space and replace a default text and the actual
> user may say that how it come without typing it ?.
>
> Anyway thanks for your suggestion, if BMC is not giving the solution,
> i am going to take your solution.
>
> On Aug 31, 8:04 pm, Rick Cook  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > For now, I would recommend putting a Filter in place that will detect a
single space and replace it with some default text.  That will buy you some
time.
>
> > Rick
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From:         Meenakshinathan 
>
> > Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:57:58
> > To: 
> > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>
> > Yes, i created a critical issue more than a hour, but nobody was
> > responded... waiting for their call. Thanks for the info that in 7.5
> > patch 002 also the same error repeats..
>
> > On Aug 31, 7:48 pm, "Eaton, Mark (DCS)" 
> > wrote:
> > > Wow!  I just tried this on 7.5 patch 002 (HPUX 11, Oracle 10g) and it
acted as you described.  If you just put a space in a diary field and save
it, the entire contents of the diary field are cleared out.  I'm thinking
you might want to call BMC and report it.
>
> > >         Mark
>
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
> > > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:39 AM
> > > To: arsl...@arslist.org
> > > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>
> > > List,
>
> > > Please let me know if anyone cannot understand my question?
>
> > > I am giving further more details..
>
> > > Create a test from, add add a diary field into it. Open the form in
aruser and create one request. open the same request and try to add a space
and save the request. Now if you the diary field values, it does not contain
any values. the empty space replaces the old values in diary field.
>
> > > I don;t know how to fix this, please help.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Meenakshinathan.
>
> > > On Aug 31, 5:02 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > I am in Remedy 7.5 patch 001 running on SuSE linux with oracle10g
> > > > database.
>
> > > > I need a solution urgently in my production system. I have a diary
> > > > field which is using to store each user comments at various stages.
If
> > > > any one user is typed a space and modify the request the whole old
> > > > diary information lost. Even in ,push field action modify request
> > > > ,from a empty string character field to diary field also replaces
the
> > > > old information with null.
>
> > > > Is there any properties is missing or do anyone can reproduce this
> > > > error? Please let me know the solutions for this. i need to fix it
as
> > > > soon as possible.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Meenakshinathan
>
> > >
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Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread patrick zandi
how old is this? ars 7.1?

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM, LJ Longwing  wrote:

> That is a HUGE defect, did they say when they expect to have a patch out
> for
> it?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
>  [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 2:13 AM
> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.
>
> BMC announced this as a product defect SW00342702. i am going to modify all
> my workflows that not to push any empty or null values from a character
> field to a diary field. Just want to share this info to you all.
>
> Issue Summary
> * Have a diary field and submit a new comment on it.
> * Try to add a another new comment with blank space (" ") and modify the
> request.
> * It replaces all the old comments with null values.
> *via workflow if you push null it also replaces all the old comments with
> null values.
>
> Meenakshinathan
>
>
> On Aug 31, 8:12 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> > Even via filter if you push a null value it deletes the previous text.
> >
> > In our application, our users are accessing a display only form to
> > enter the comments, this comments are get stored in regular form diary
> > field.
> > Some users may type comments and some not. By your solution, i need to
> > look for both null and space and replace a default text and the actual
> > user may say that how it come without typing it ?.
> >
> > Anyway thanks for your suggestion, if BMC is not giving the solution,
> > i am going to take your solution.
> >
> > On Aug 31, 8:04 pm, Rick Cook  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > For now, I would recommend putting a Filter in place that will detect a
> single space and replace it with some default text.  That will buy you some
> time.
> >
> > > Rick
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Meenakshinathan 
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:57:58
> > > To: 
> > > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
> >
> > > Yes, i created a critical issue more than a hour, but nobody was
> > > responded... waiting for their call. Thanks for the info that in 7.5
> > > patch 002 also the same error repeats..
> >
> > > On Aug 31, 7:48 pm, "Eaton, Mark (DCS)"
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Wow!  I just tried this on 7.5 patch 002 (HPUX 11, Oracle 10g) and it
> acted as you described.  If you just put a space in a diary field and save
> it, the entire contents of the diary field are cleared out.  I'm thinking
> you might want to call BMC and report it.
> >
> > > > Mark
> >
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > > > [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
> > > > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:39 AM
> > > > To: arsl...@arslist.org
> > > > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
> >
> > > > List,
> >
> > > > Please let me know if anyone cannot understand my question?
> >
> > > > I am giving further more details..
> >
> > > > Create a test from, add add a diary field into it. Open the form in
> aruser and create one request. open the same request and try to add a space
> and save the request. Now if you the diary field values, it does not
> contain
> any values. the empty space replaces the old values in diary field.
> >
> > > > I don;t know how to fix this, please help.
> >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Meenakshinathan.
> >
> > > > On Aug 31, 5:02 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> >
> > > > > I am in Remedy 7.5 patch 001 running on SuSE linux with
> > > > > oracle10g database.
> >
> > > > > I need a solution urgently in my production system. I have a
> > > > > diary field which is using to store each user comments at
> > > > > various stages. If any one user is typed a space and modify the
> > > > > request the whole old diary information lost. Even in ,push
> > > > > field action modify request ,from a empty string character field
> > > > > to diary field also replaces the old information with null.
> >
> > > > > Is there any properties is missing or do anyone can reproduce
> > > > > this error? Pleas

Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread LJ Longwing
That is a HUGE defect, did they say when they expect to have a patch out for
it? 

-Original Message-
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 2:13 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

BMC announced this as a product defect SW00342702. i am going to modify all
my workflows that not to push any empty or null values from a character
field to a diary field. Just want to share this info to you all.

Issue Summary
* Have a diary field and submit a new comment on it.
* Try to add a another new comment with blank space (" ") and modify the
request.
* It replaces all the old comments with null values.
*via workflow if you push null it also replaces all the old comments with
null values.

Meenakshinathan


On Aug 31, 8:12 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> Even via filter if you push a null value it deletes the previous text.
>
> In our application, our users are accessing a display only form to 
> enter the comments, this comments are get stored in regular form diary 
> field.
> Some users may type comments and some not. By your solution, i need to 
> look for both null and space and replace a default text and the actual 
> user may say that how it come without typing it ?.
>
> Anyway thanks for your suggestion, if BMC is not giving the solution, 
> i am going to take your solution.
>
> On Aug 31, 8:04 pm, Rick Cook  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > For now, I would recommend putting a Filter in place that will detect a
single space and replace it with some default text.  That will buy you some
time.
>
> > Rick
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From:         Meenakshinathan 
>
> > Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:57:58
> > To: 
> > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>
> > Yes, i created a critical issue more than a hour, but nobody was 
> > responded... waiting for their call. Thanks for the info that in 7.5 
> > patch 002 also the same error repeats..
>
> > On Aug 31, 7:48 pm, "Eaton, Mark (DCS)" 
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > Wow!  I just tried this on 7.5 patch 002 (HPUX 11, Oracle 10g) and it
acted as you described.  If you just put a space in a diary field and save
it, the entire contents of the diary field are cleared out.  I'm thinking
you might want to call BMC and report it.
>
> > >         Mark
>
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
> > > [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
> > > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:39 AM
> > > To: arsl...@arslist.org
> > > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>
> > > List,
>
> > > Please let me know if anyone cannot understand my question?
>
> > > I am giving further more details..
>
> > > Create a test from, add add a diary field into it. Open the form in
aruser and create one request. open the same request and try to add a space
and save the request. Now if you the diary field values, it does not contain
any values. the empty space replaces the old values in diary field.
>
> > > I don;t know how to fix this, please help.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Meenakshinathan.
>
> > > On Aug 31, 5:02 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > I am in Remedy 7.5 patch 001 running on SuSE linux with 
> > > > oracle10g database.
>
> > > > I need a solution urgently in my production system. I have a 
> > > > diary field which is using to store each user comments at 
> > > > various stages. If any one user is typed a space and modify the 
> > > > request the whole old diary information lost. Even in ,push 
> > > > field action modify request ,from a empty string character field 
> > > > to diary field also replaces the old information with null.
>
> > > > Is there any properties is missing or do anyone can reproduce 
> > > > this error? Please let me know the solutions for this. i need to 
> > > > fix it as soon as possible.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Meenakshinathan
>
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Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread Meenakshinathan
BMC announced this as a product defect SW00342702. i am going to
modify all my workflows that not to push any empty or null values from
a character field to a diary field. Just want to share this info to
you all.

Issue Summary
* Have a diary field and submit a new comment on it.
* Try to add a another new comment with blank space (" ") and modify
the request.
* It replaces all the old comments with null values.
*via workflow if you push null it also replaces all the old comments
with null values.

Meenakshinathan


On Aug 31, 8:12 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> Even via filter if you push a null value it deletes the previous
> text.
>
> In our application, our users are accessing a display only form to
> enter the comments, this comments are get stored in regular form diary
> field.
> Some users may type comments and some not. By your solution, i need to
> look for both null and space and replace a default text and the actual
> user may say that how it come without typing it ?.
>
> Anyway thanks for your suggestion, if BMC is not giving the solution,
> i am going to take your solution.
>
> On Aug 31, 8:04 pm, Rick Cook  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > For now, I would recommend putting a Filter in place that will detect a 
> > single space and replace it with some default text.  That will buy you some 
> > time.
>
> > Rick
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From:         Meenakshinathan 
>
> > Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:57:58
> > To: 
> > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>
> > Yes, i created a critical issue more than a hour, but nobody was
> > responded... waiting for their call. Thanks for the info that in 7.5
> > patch 002 also the same error repeats..
>
> > On Aug 31, 7:48 pm, "Eaton, Mark (DCS)" 
> > wrote:
> > > Wow!  I just tried this on 7.5 patch 002 (HPUX 11, Oracle 10g) and it 
> > > acted as you described.  If you just put a space in a diary field and 
> > > save it, the entire contents of the diary field are cleared out.  I'm 
> > > thinking you might want to call BMC and report it.
>
> > >         Mark
>
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
> > > [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meenakshinathan
> > > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:39 AM
> > > To: arsl...@arslist.org
> > > Subject: Re: Urgent :: Diary Field Issue -- Please help
>
> > > List,
>
> > > Please let me know if anyone cannot understand my question?
>
> > > I am giving further more details..
>
> > > Create a test from, add add a diary field into it. Open the form in 
> > > aruser and create one request. open the same request and try to add a 
> > > space and save the request. Now if you the diary field values, it does 
> > > not contain any values. the empty space replaces the old values in diary 
> > > field.
>
> > > I don;t know how to fix this, please help.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Meenakshinathan.
>
> > > On Aug 31, 5:02 pm, Meenakshinathan  wrote:
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > I am in Remedy 7.5 patch 001 running on SuSE linux with oracle10g
> > > > database.
>
> > > > I need a solution urgently in my production system. I have a diary
> > > > field which is using to store each user comments at various stages. If
> > > > any one user is typed a space and modify the request the whole old
> > > > diary information lost. Even in ,push field action modify request
> > > > ,from a empty string character field to diary field also replaces the
> > > > old information with null.
>
> > > > Is there any properties is missing or do anyone can reproduce this
> > > > error? Please let me know the solutions for this. i need to fix it as
> > > > soon as possible.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Meenakshinathan
>
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