Re: Implementing Multiple Help Desk Forms

2014-03-05 Thread Mahesh
You may want to look at BMC Service Request Management.

Thanks
Mahesh


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Tom Siegel tsie...@intrado.com wrote:

 Hi - Tom the newby again, working on migrating our company from BMC SDE to
 Remedy. My next major challenge is how to implement the 100 or so custom
 SDE Incident forms that we created over the years, into Remedy. In SDE it
 is quite easy to implement custom incident forms, you can even use the same
 fields on multiple forms! Just design them, give them an Incident Type,
 throw them under nav bar and off you go. Unfortunately (or fortunately
 depending upon your perspective) this doesn't appear to fit well with
 Remedy's architecture. We do have someone helping us through this process
 and I wanted to throw an idea out to the group and get some feed back. The
 current plan is to
 1) Load up the Remedy Incident Type list with the ones we have in SDE.
 2) Create a custom tab on the HPD:Help Desk form for each of our custom
 SDE forms containing the required fields
 3) Based upon the Incident Type selected, expose the proper custom tab
 (the other ones remain hidden), enabling the user to add the additional
 data required for the incident type selected

 It works in theory and I have one mocked up in dev but my concern is since
 I cannot use the same field under more than one tab (remeber in SDE I could
 use the same field on multiple forms), I am going to end up with quite a
 few (100 +) custom fields on the Help Desk form.

 Comments?

 Has anyone else had this challange and solved it a differnt way?

 Thanks,

 Tom


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Re: Implementing Multiple Help Desk Forms

2014-02-26 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi Tom,

Can't say I have had this challenge but might have an idea that could make it 
easier for you. Take a look at the way the WOI:Work Order does templates. 
Basically you have about a dozen fields that hold the label information and  
corresponding fields to hold the data. If you could use this approach then you 
have one tab and one set of fields that you reuse in each situation handled by 
separate active links. Only thing that might be tricky is reporting on these 
fields.

Good Luck
Mark

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Subject: Implementing Multiple Help Desk Forms

Hi - Tom the newby again, working on migrating our company from BMC SDE to 
Remedy. My next major challenge is how to implement the 100 or so custom SDE 
Incident forms that we created over the years, into Remedy. In SDE it is quite 
easy to implement custom incident forms, you can even use the same fields on 
multiple forms! Just design them, give them an Incident Type, throw them under 
nav bar and off you go. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending upon your 
perspective) this doesn't appear to fit well with Remedy's architecture. We do 
have someone helping us through this process and I wanted to throw an idea out 
to the group and get some feed back. The current plan is to
1) Load up the Remedy Incident Type list with the ones we have in SDE.
2) Create a custom tab on the HPD:Help Desk form for each of our custom SDE 
forms containing the required fields
3) Based upon the Incident Type selected, expose the proper custom tab (the 
other ones remain hidden), enabling the user to add the additional data 
required for the incident type selected

It works in theory and I have one mocked up in dev but my concern is since I 
cannot use the same field under more than one tab (remeber in SDE I could use 
the same field on multiple forms), I am going to end up with quite a few (100 
+) custom fields on the Help Desk form.

Comments?

Has anyone else had this challange and solved it a differnt way?

Thanks,

Tom

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Implementing Multiple Help Desk Forms

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Siegel
Hi - Tom the newby again, working on migrating our company from BMC SDE to 
Remedy. My next major challenge is how to implement the 100 or so custom SDE 
Incident forms that we created over the years, into Remedy. In SDE it is quite 
easy to implement custom incident forms, you can even use the same fields on 
multiple forms! Just design them, give them an Incident Type, throw them under 
nav bar and off you go. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending upon your 
perspective) this doesn't appear to fit well with Remedy's architecture. We do 
have someone helping us through this process and I wanted to throw an idea out 
to the group and get some feed back. The current plan is to
1) Load up the Remedy Incident Type list with the ones we have in SDE.
2) Create a custom tab on the HPD:Help Desk form for each of our custom SDE 
forms containing the required fields
3) Based upon the Incident Type selected, expose the proper custom tab (the 
other ones remain hidden), enabling the user to add the additional data 
required for the incident type selected

It works in theory and I have one mocked up in dev but my concern is since I 
cannot use the same field under more than one tab (remeber in SDE I could use 
the same field on multiple forms), I am going to end up with quite a few (100 
+) custom fields on the Help Desk form.

Comments?

Has anyone else had this challange and solved it a differnt way?

Thanks,

Tom

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