Re: Attachement Updation

2007-08-02 Thread Meenakshinathan
Hi Robert, Thanks for the information. Anyhow this solution is not working. Remedy stores the attachments in the following way number of characters,no of bytes(i am sure. but it might bytes),filename with extenstion. I am not user this TR and DB can apply for attachement fields. can any one

Re: Attachement Updation

2007-08-02 Thread Hugo Visser
You cannot compare the file contents, but using TR you should be able to detect that a file was attached again (if the DB value wasn't $NULL$). The value contains the file size in bytes, the compressed size in the DB and the full filename on the client. Also note that user cannot change the

Re: Attachement Updation

2007-08-02 Thread Meenakshinathan
Hi Hugo, Let me explain the scenario. (A). First user attached a file name called test.txt which contains characters Test. The second user overwrite this file into new filename called test2.txt which containts Test2. No both file name and number of characters are changed. I wrote one filter

Re: Attachement Updation

2007-08-02 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Meenakshinathan, Just to verify ( Because Attachments in ARS are a special thing when compared to the other ARS data types.) There is an attachment Pool field named What on this form? How many attachment fields are in this pool and what are their names? Is it possible that your filter it

Re: Attachement Updation

2007-08-02 Thread Shellman, David
Trapping these scenarios is not easy. What we are doing is removing the choices from the attachment pool and adding buttons for that functionality. Then when the button is pushed we copy the attachment to an audit form and log who made the change. Dave -- [EMAIL

Alerts

2007-08-02 Thread Pickering, Christopher
Morning, This should be easy, but I can't find the answer. In the Operation Ranking form for Server groups, which Operation controls the sending of alerts? C Christopher H. Pickering Remedy System Administrator Premiere Global Services, Inc. 100 Tormee

Import Question

2007-08-02 Thread Ben Cantatore
Yesterday, I had a batch of bad people records that I had a user fix in a csv file and then imported with the People ID to update the relevant records. That occurred successfully. What confused me a bit is the last modified by and last modified date fields didn't update as I would expected.

OT: Attachement Updation - File Contents Changed

2007-08-02 Thread Heider, Stephen
Hugo, Your post got me thinking: How can you determine if the file contents have changed? I have wanted to create something like this for a while... so I just wrote this SQL Server 2000 function that returns the checksum of an attachment field (actually any field of Image data type. The current

Re: Import Question

2007-08-02 Thread Susan Palmer
Ben, Import is stealth unless you map values to last modified fields. Was this way on 5.1.2 and is this way on 7.0.1P2. Susan On 8/2/07, Ben Cantatore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Yesterday, I had a batch of bad people records that I had a user fix in a csv file and then imported with the

Re: Import Question

2007-08-02 Thread Ben Cantatore
Sorry newb question, but I guess I never really looked. Ok thanks for clearing that up. Ben Cantatore Remedy Administrator Avon (914) 935-2946 Susan Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 08/02/2007 10:08 AM Please respond to

Re: OT: Attachement Updation - File Contents Changed

2007-08-02 Thread Meenakshinathan
Hi Dave, Can you please explain some more in detail when you are getting free time, how did you implement that?. Becoz my application is accessed via web browser. Users are adding attachments via display only form and i am having an audit form (Regular form) to store this values. In the

Re: Import of People data into ITSM 7

2007-08-02 Thread Srikanth
Hi Satya, We are not having EIE currently, but are considering to use it so that we can integrate the CMDB with Marimba for auto-disovery. I have to investigate more about the functionality of EIE. Thanks for your tip. Regards, Srikanth On Aug 1, 1:03 pm, satya Kode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Import Question

2007-08-02 Thread Susan Palmer
I only know that because at one time I thought it would have changed those fields upon import. Now when I import I write an entry to the audit log about the type of import, who provided it etc. Otherwise its impossible to remember everything ! Susan On 8/2/07, Ben Cantatore [EMAIL PROTECTED]

BMC Training Classes

2007-08-02 Thread Don Simmons
Has anyone take any of the ITSM 7 Advanced Solutions courses? If so what did you think of the courses and the instructors? Don _ Missed the show?  Watch videos of the Live Earth Concert on MSN. http://liveearth.msn.com

Re: Resolved time of Tickets - HOURS TO RESOLVE field

2007-08-02 Thread Thomas Bean
Julie, Thanks for pointing this out! Curiously, I found that my recent Help Desk 6.0 installation had this same bug you described, but I could not find it on my now inactive Help Desk 5.5 installation. The filter on the old 5.5 app used the correct value of $Arrival Time$ rather than $DATE$ to

arsperl saving attachments

2007-08-02 Thread Michael Hirst
Hello Listers, I am running, ARS 6.3, Oracle 9.2, Sun OS. and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction for using perl to save attachments to Remedy. I am using perl to parse incomming emails and then save the information to a Help Desk 6.3 ticket. I am using the

JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, This might be a dumb question, but I haven't found the answer on my own yet, so I'll ask the experts here while I continue to look for it in the manuals. I am setting up a new AIX server for a fresh install of ARS 7.0. Is there a requirement to have a JRE installed on the ARS Server?

Re: Import of People data into ITSM 7

2007-08-02 Thread Payne, George
There's a couple of things to remember here gang. The CTM:People Permission Groups form is keyed on the RequestID field from the CTM:People file. If you're going to import records into CTM:People, you'll need to use the associated RequestID in order to create entries in CTM:People Permission

Re: JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Rick Cook
Thad, the client level JRE is no longer required for Mid-Tier, but I recently found out that it IS required for use by Flashboards 7.x. I think it's also required by ARS (and thus, on the AR Server) due to some Java applets like the Data Visualization fields, but I haven't formally tested that.

Re: Import of People data into ITSM 7

2007-08-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In my integration, I added filters to CTM:People to push to those other forms when a record is created by AR_ESCALATOR. We have a standard set of permissions for support staff as well as end users, making it much easier to do in an automated fashion. -Original Message- From: Action

Re: JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you run the AR Email Engine on that server, you will need it. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:54 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Davies, J.T.
I believe you need it if you want to consume other' published web services...? J.T. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:54 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: 20% Shrinkage in Field Widths Using AR User Tool for 7.0.1

2007-08-02 Thread Betsy McCullough
It seems that the problem is that we were using Arial and the 7.0.1 User tool doesn't render the pages correctly with the Arial font, although the Admin tool does. Can anyone else verify this? I'd like to know if this problem is unique to our installation or a general bug in the v7 User Client.

Re: 20% Shrinkage in Field Widths Using AR User Tool for 7.0.1

2007-08-02 Thread Betsy McCullough
It seems that the problem is that we were using Arial and the 7.0.1 User tool doesn't render the pages correctly with the Arial font, although the Admin tool does. Can anyone else verify this? I'd like to know if this problem is unique to our installation or a general bug in the v7 User Client.

Re: JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Thad K Esser
That was faster than reading the manuals! I should do this more often. :-) Thank you, Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Hornsby, Tambre L is out of the office.

2007-08-02 Thread Tambre L Hornsby/AC/VCU
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Re: JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Thad K Esser
That was actually the part that confused me the most. From the Integrating manual (pg 82): -- Chapter 6 - Web Services Java runtime environment considerations AR System web services require that the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on the system running BMC Remedy Administrator. If you

Re: JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Axton
The email engine and fb history collector both need the jre on the server. Starting with 7.1, I am assuming the plugin server will require a jre to run java plugins. DV Fields are served by the mid-tier, as are fb images; obviously the mid-tier requires a jre. Axton Grams On 8/2/07, Thad K

Re: arsperl saving attachments

2007-08-02 Thread Michael Hirst
I was able to get this to work with your help. thank you for the suggestions, I truly appreciate it. Best Regards, Michael Hirst Thilo Stapff wrote: First, the name parameter should rather be name = $attname, than name = @attname, Second, the ars_CreateEntry function, unlike

Re: Import Question

2007-08-02 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Merge has always behaved this way, and the behavior is by design. The user doing the Merge is only limited in what they can change by their change permissions to the fields on the form. Merge can even do things like: remove data from a diary field alter the 'Create Date', 'Last Modified By',

Re: JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Paragraph 1 is about the admin tool ... A JRE is needed on the machine running the Admin tool if you want to create a Web Service or create a filter that consumes a web service. The part of the Admin tool that works with web services requires the JRE. Paragraph 2 is about the server ... A

Weird DSO Behavior

2007-08-02 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Hello everyone: We've run into a very weird problem with DSO and I was hoping maybe someone's encountered this before. We have DSO set up between two identical servers. One server is in Florida, the other is in Ohio. What we do is create a request on the server in Florida. The

Re: Attachement Updation

2007-08-02 Thread Kemes, Lisa
I had to create a tmp field and push the name of the attachment to this temp field (if the tmp field was empty). Then if the user tried to overwrite this attachment, I was able to check if tmpfield = new attachment, if it did not match then I would not let them overwrite the field. I would make

Re: Attachement Updation

2007-08-02 Thread Kemes, Lisa
Also, This will only work if the name of the file changes, I'm not looking to see if the data inside of the attachment has changed... Lisa -Original Message- From: Kemes, Lisa Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:01 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: Attachement Updation I had to

Two buttons - one active link

2007-08-02 Thread Durrant, Michael M. - ITSD
I have two buttons on a form - one at the top, one at the bottom, that perform the same function. Can I have these two buttons fire the same active link? The information contained in this email may be privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. All persons are advised

Re: Two buttons - one active link

2007-08-02 Thread Rick Cook
Nope. There's only one button that can be connected to an Active Link. Just make a copy of the AL, rename the copy appropriately, and change the button. Rick On 8/2/07, Durrant, Michael M. - ITSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I have two buttons on a form - one at the top, one at the bottom,

Re: Two buttons - one active link

2007-08-02 Thread Worley Mark A Ctr 2 SOS/SYOS
Sort of... You can have one button that does the actual work and the other button uses a Run Process of Perform-Action-Active-Link 1 field id to push the first button HTH Mark //SIGNED// MARK A. WORLEY, Contractor, 2 SOS/SYOS Remedy ARS Support, SAIC Commercial: (402) 294-8226 DSN:

Re: Two buttons - one active link

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Cleereman (IT)
Hi Michael, You can't assign a single active link to two buttons, but you can get the same effect using a run process. Create whatever active links you'd like have fire for Button A as normal. Create an active link for Button B who's sole action is to perform the following run process:

Re: Two buttons - one active link

2007-08-02 Thread Pargeter, Christie
Or build an active link guide From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:01 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Two buttons - one active link ** Nope. There's only

Re: Weird DSO Behavior

2007-08-02 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Norm, I think your not seeing the whole picture here. You speak of filters and sql logs. Where is the filter logs in your analysis? Where are the filter/sql logs from both servers? (or maybe you just left that detail out?) Now with that aside... I am also confused about what transfer is the