Re: Gap Analysis helpdesk

2007-06-29 Thread Susan Palmer
And don't forget about the enhancements that were put in but then really not utilized. You don't want to continue those to a new version. Susan On 6/29/07, Robert Molenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is such a common "issue" so to say. Unfortunately at a "line by line of code" (in this i

Re: URL in email - RESOLVED (partly)

2007-06-29 Thread Rick Cook
I just found this while digging through the bowels of the configuration forms. To change the URL that goes out in SURVEY emails, open AR User, and open the SYS:Attachments form. Find the record entitled URL for Survey. Set it to offline, make a copy of it, and change the server name in the URL

Re: SURVEY: AR, DB, MidTier server types

2007-06-29 Thread John Sundberg
Updated -- thanks. -John On 6/29/07, Durrant, Michael M. - ITSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** There's no "ARS and Mid-Tier" choice for "which functions run on one box"... -- *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Beh

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Well, the decision to compromise doesn't look like it'll be mine to make. Top brass has decreed they want minimum to NO customizations. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Friday, June 29, 2

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread strauss
If you are willing to customize, you can of course do much more. Axton customized our existing production Help Desk 5.5.1 to add row-level locking on several different aspects of the application, ranging from group assignment to a set of categorizations. It just isn't how they built it in ITSM 7,

Re: SURVEY: AR, DB, MidTier server types

2007-06-29 Thread Durrant, Michael M. - ITSD
There's no "ARS and Mid-Tier" choice for "which functions run on one box"... From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:46 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: SURVEY: AR,

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
It just doesn't seem very robust to me. The system we're using today (not ITSM) allows you to define "functional areas" which are defined by the administrator based on a combination of criteria-company, department, office, building, and/or room. Row-level locking is then tied to the functional ar

Re: Documentation

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Yeah, I think they fell victim to the cut/paste trap. Write the Windows documentation, then cut/paste into the Unix docs...make the appropriate changes...woops... -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarl Grøneng

SURVEY: AR, DB, MidTier server types

2007-06-29 Thread John Sundberg
The next in the series. This survey is for server types - I thought it would be fun to see where people are with their ARSystems. If you have any questions/concerns - please email me directly. I will make the survey findings available shortly. Also - if you have a request for future surveys - p

Documentation

2007-06-29 Thread Jarl Grøneng
I love the documentation. "IMPORTANT Before running .exe on UNIX platforms, make sure the /bin directory is in the library path environment variable: LD_LIBRARY_PATH(Linux(r), Solaris), LIBPATH (AIX), or SHLIB_PATH (HP-UX)." .exe files on a *nix server? ye ye ye... "Almost all plug-in, AR

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread strauss
We thought about that approach - imposing an artificial hierarchy over the companies, which all sit at an equal level, but have not elected to do it (we think it will slow users of the interface down if they already know who all of the companies are, unless we use a custom pull-right hierarchical m

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
When you go into a company's configuration, on the Advanced tab you can set up multiple tiers for the companies, although I'm not sure what that does. If you have ITSM 7 installed, go to the Application Administration Console, select one of the companies you created, and click "View". Look at the

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Right, but this makes the COMPANY value no longer atomic. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 2:11 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterp

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
That would make the value no longer atomic. That's not acceptable per my requirement. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Payne, George Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:48 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread strauss
Yes. You will need to define each entity that should be hidden from others as a Company - that is the level where row-level locking of records occurs. Acme - Widgets - Testing and Acme - Widgets - Research must be separate Companies. In order to move tickets between companies, you need tick

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
OK...how? Through custom code? If yes, that's all I need to know. Thanks. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:32 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Multi

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Yes...I already considered the multiple server scenario, but that's not an option. I should have said that in original post. The requirements state that there must only be one server with ONE instance of ITSM. Oh, and to make the exercise even more fun-each of the subsidiaries is geographical

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Payne, George
Ok...maybe I'm being a little too simplistic here, but why don't you just set up the following 12 "companies": Widgets Research Widgets Development Widgets Testing Widgets Contracting Sprockets Research Sprockets Development Sprockets T

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Norm, The easiest way I can think of off hand is to create companies of those independent business units. If the organization you're talking about is large enough it would probably be best to have multiple ITSM installations on multiple servers, and use DSO to push between the different companies

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread William Rentfrow
There is no way to do this without custom coding. However, it can be done. We are currently doing this exact thing for a customer utilizing dynamic groups. We are doing it a level above where you are asking for it but there is no reason it couldn't be done further down the tree. ___

Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Has anyone attempted to implement multitenancy in a large, complex enterprise? Suppose I have a very large company called Acme Incorporated, and let's say Acme actually consists of multiple quasi-independent subsidiaries-Widgets, Sprockets, and Gizmos. Let's say Widgets, Sprockets, and Gizmos w

Re: License Usage

2007-06-29 Thread Payne, George
The funny thing is that a respected Remedy Trainer (who will remain un-named) brought up a very similar question in a class he was teaching on Application Design in the spring of 2006. My solution was to submit a ticket to a child and then update the parent with workflow and he assured me that thi

Re: Get Out-of-Office Message From Exchange

2007-06-29 Thread Robert Molenda
Thanks for the code chunk, now I have in development system configured/proposed messaging scan functionality! Eliminate those pesky OoO messages :-) Now back to the access question: Yes, the mailbox-user must be granted near administrator privileges to access that hidden email message :-( s

Re: Gap Analysis helpdesk

2007-06-29 Thread Robert Molenda
This is such a common "issue" so to say. Unfortunately at a "line by line of code" (in this instance, fields, AL, filters..) it is easy to "get lost" in the total view of the scenario. This is where "best practice" is that the "customizer" has a "Delta change document" which states more or les

Gap Analysis helpdesk

2007-06-29 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Anonymous
I have to do a gap analysis between help desk 6.3, and a customized help desk 6.3.? I have a migrated report showing which fields/forms/active links, etc are equal, unequal and not found.? Is there somewhere a procedure or info that can guide me through it? Thanks! _

Web Services - Performance??

2007-06-29 Thread Covert, Jack
Hi guys. I'm about to start a project that we'll be using Web Services. This is my first time using Web Services - I'm so excited! Anyway, are there any performance considerations for Web Services? Is it a substantial drain on our resources to constantly have packets being sent back and forth??

Re: License Usage

2007-06-29 Thread Robert Molenda
Thus the new logic of "User is connected from a different IP"... But then if you consider "Web Services", where one ASP/PHP/xx web page can submit for "multiple end users" via the "One Web Service Login", how does this affect this license model? Makes me go HHUUMM... possible conflicting license

Re: ITSM 7 Requestor accounts

2007-06-29 Thread Robert Molenda
I agree, security is of issue from the requester / support staff standpoint. I'd suggest searching the archives, as this has been discussed in the past. The issue is a big one... From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Pulling multiple records from a Oracle Table or View Form

2007-06-29 Thread Roger
Thanks Guys, I was not sure whether the escalation would find all of the records and import them individually.. I think I will attempt this. Hopefully I can find the flag that will keep them from looping ;-) Roger On Jun 29, 9:24 am, "Niu, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger, > > You may

Re: what's the best way to zebra stripe a table field?

2007-06-29 Thread Frank Caruso
I did this using a View field instead of a Table field. A bit more work and not as per formant as a Table field but did allow me to do some nice UI stuff. 1. Add a View field to a form along with your Table field. 2. Create a Guide that walks the table field and builds HTML with tags to display

Re: what's the best way to zebra stripe a table field?

2007-06-29 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
Hello Andrew Ok you can use this method, although it is a bit nutty. If you have a hidden selection field on your form which is displayed in the table, call it whatever you want, say Black with 2 values Yes and No. Now set every odd one to No and every even one to Yes. In the table set the Result

Re: License Usage

2007-06-29 Thread zebratta
I would also agree that it has been a longstanding license violation. Since the early days of 4.x at least, the 'read' license was limited to submission of new records and querying, and modification of records required a change license. When RemedyWeb came out it was possible to make updates t

Re: Pulling multiple records from a Oracle Table or View Form

2007-06-29 Thread Niu, Jason
Roger, You may run an escalation on the view form, and the if action will be pushing fields to another form. Use some qualification so there will not be duplicate entries next time the escalation runs. Jason Niu Remedy System & Operation GETS - Enterprise Systems Management Email:[EMA

Re: License Usage

2007-06-29 Thread Reiser, John J
It also violates the "named"(Fixed) user license. Fixed users are defined as a single account used by one person only. You can use read only access with submitter mode locked to allow people to Submit and Modify records that they submitted. Read Restricted accounts can submit but even in submitte

Re: License Usage

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Of course BMC/Remedy could do whatever it wanted and not have to worry about violating its own license agreement! I'm thinking you'd now run into the multiple logons from different workstations problem, wouldn't you? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: License Usage

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Sounds pretty gray to me, but I think that because you'd be using a Remedy user ID and authenticating against an ARS server, BMC would contend that what you're describing falls under the provisions of "middle processing" and thus violates the license agreement. Since you said you're not using t

Re: License Usage

2007-06-29 Thread Axton
This may have little or no bearing, just an observation. This is what BMC used to do on the supportweb site. Every time you logged in, you were logging in as ARWebUser, not your id; this was evident by the user parameter in the url. I do not know if this is still the case since I no longer use

Re: License Usage

2007-06-29 Thread L. J. Head
My understanding is that it would be a violation based on the 'no group user accounts' policy...I've never read the agreement myself but understand it as such. _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Caruso Sent: Friday, June 29,

Re: adding script to midtier 6.3

2007-06-29 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Have you tried putting the script (JSP??) in the SHARED location of your midtier and then referencing it with this: From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barber, Sue Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 9:53 AM

License Usage

2007-06-29 Thread Frank Caruso
Looking for feedback on whether the following set up would violate a license agreement with BMC: Putting up web sites (not MidTier) where end users can submit and update records but the web site authenticates with the ARS server using one ID. This ID has been granted a Fixed license and each site

adding script to midtier 6.3

2007-06-29 Thread Barber, Sue
Hello list, I am trying to add some script to a form and it works fine in HomeSite, but when I try to pull it up in the form, I get the following errors: Caught exception: Current Style is Null or not an object. I think it is because there are style attributes and java in the code that

Re: Pulling multiple records from a Oracle Table or View Form

2007-06-29 Thread Frank Caruso
Use a Table field on a form and walk that table pushing the results to another form. The table field can use the View as its data source. On 6/29/07, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: guys, I have a DB link from Oracle of which I have Read Only access via both SQL queries and a Remedy View for

More Crystal Enterprise Web Madness

2007-06-29 Thread tgaltamore
Hi Listers, It seems that the Crystal Reports problem we are having just can't get solved. The reports open up without a hitch in the Remedy Client, but will not open up in mid-tier. According to support the system is doing what its supposed to do, its just not able to open. In order to w

Pulling multiple records from a Oracle Table or View Form

2007-06-29 Thread Roger
guys, I have a DB link from Oracle of which I have Read Only access via both SQL queries and a Remedy View form. I am trying to find all new records created with a data of today say 6/28/2007 or 28-JUN-07. Does anyone know how to pull these records into remedy as individual records into a stagin

Re: ITSM 7 Requestor accounts

2007-06-29 Thread Don McClure
Philip, Our work with ARS7/ITSM7 has led us along similar lines--multi-tenancy, with a company/group strata within the University (33,000+ students and approx 300 support staff). By our experience: a ticket will always be visible to its submitter, regardless of company affiliation of that subm

Re: what's the best way to zebra stripe a table field?

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Hicox
Everyone: sorry, I should have been more clear. I'm not attempting to do this in html/css. I'm trying to do this on a table field in the aruser client. I think this could maybe be done using a table walk, but I'm unsure how to set the background color on a single row. -A On Jun 29, 2007, at

Re: Field names in a list

2007-06-29 Thread L. J. Head
ARInside does provide that information for each field...but the reason you don't see it 'readily' available is the fact that the Field Label can be different per view...so while the DB name is consistent if a form has 10 views it can be named 10 different things depending on which view you look at.

Field names in a list

2007-06-29 Thread Bob Rowe
As we all know each field in a form has at least three names, one the user sees (user-facing), the name we see in the admin tool and the name stored in the database. I have a manager who wants a csv file listing all the fields on a form showing the user-facing name alongside the admin-tool name.

Re: Reg : Remedy Automation Tool

2007-06-29 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Dev, And I would add... that I think _most_ testing could be done from v7 with Active Link guides and dynamic workflow. A collection of "advanced" actions (Window Open, Send Events, "PERFORM-ACTION-ACTIVE-LINK" and "Application-Copy-Field-Value" to name a few) built into a data configurable appli

Re: what's the best way to zebra stripe a table field?

2007-06-29 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Andrew, Use a v7.0.1 Mid-tier? (I believe they changed the default CSS to do that.) I think there are also ways to do it in the v6.3 Mid-Tier, but I forget the details. Maybe you can find them in the archives? However, I am not sure about implementations with the User Tool. -- Carey Matthew B

ITSM 7 Requestor accounts

2007-06-29 Thread Boucher, Philip
We are preparing to implement ITSM 7 using the multi-tenancy mode. We need to structure our internal organisation into different companies to allow data to be segregated. For example IT, HR, Finance. In this way only HR will have visibility of the HR tickets. Our issue with this approach is th

Malinda Edmonds is out of the office.

2007-06-29 Thread Malinda Edmonds
I will be out of the office starting 06/29/2007 and will not return until 07/05/2007. For QPTM, QCM and eNotices issues please contact Glenn Vaughan. For GIS, MISI, Remedy and PGAS issues please contact me via email or call me at 832-214-5721. _

Import

2007-06-29 Thread Rix
Hi to all, I must update the data in a form. the updates are present in a file. in short I must insert the new records (present in file and not in form), update those already present in the form and cancel those not present in the file but present in form. I was proceeding realizing an escalation t