Re: Equivalent of the TRANSLATE function in Remedy

2008-03-28 Thread Joe D'Souza
Nice thought.. I will need to strip the extension part out first though if I were to go that way.. Will need to toy over that idea and see if I can come out with something better than that.. I still wish Remedy did have a TRANSLATE equivalent! Would have made life so much more easier.. Cheers Jo

Re: Equivalent of the TRANSLATE function in Remedy

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Goralczyk
Since it seems like no matter what, this is gonna suck, how about this? Create another field. Then have it set the first number out of the field you are trying to clean. You can use the results of a function to populate the value in another function. So test for the location of the first number

Re: Equivalent of the TRANSLATE function in Remedy

2008-03-28 Thread Joe D'Souza
Rick, Not sure if you can use the ASCII range, never tried it.. Thad, Yes same phone number issue and while doing it directly at SQL yes I did use Upper before Translate so I have to translate less... The actual select statement that I designed, as a result of all the formatting that was necess

Re: Equivalent of the TRANSLATE function in Remedy

2008-03-28 Thread Thad K Esser
Joe, Sorry, I'm not sure there's an easy answer to this one without using the SQL. I think you'll have to loop through the string one character at a time to doing your find and replace. Some thoughts though: 1. Does this have to do with your phone number formatting issue? Would it be easier

Migrator not migrating Core Fields

2008-03-28 Thread Jase Brandon
Hello All, We are migrating legacy data from a 5.X Server to a 7X server using AR Migrator 7.00.01. Core Fields are not being migrated. I know the core field lengths were increased with Version 7, but don't think it would be an issue because smaller core field lengths from pre-7 versions are being

Re: Equivalent of the TRANSLATE function in Remedy

2008-03-28 Thread Rick Cook
Can ranges of characters (like ASCII ranges) be used in the REPLACE function? Rick On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Joe D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** Has anyone implemented the equivalent of the Oracle TRANSLATE function > in Remedy? > > I have a field where I wish to translate all the

Re: Commit Changes

2008-03-28 Thread Axton
That won't work; there is something else firing on close window or something else. Turn on the AL logs, find out what it is (more than likely display only fields getting set by a close window AL); if they are display only fields, disable the change flag on those fields. Alternatively, add an AL o

Equivalent of the TRANSLATE function in Remedy

2008-03-28 Thread Joe D'Souza
Has anyone implemented the equivalent of the Oracle TRANSLATE function in Remedy? I have a field where I wish to translate all the alpha characters into lets say ^ and then replace ^ with null to make that field free of alpha characters. The only way I can think it is possible right now is to hav

Re: Migrating HD 6 cases to Incident 7?

2008-03-28 Thread Ron Legters
Ah, yes - of course. I'll try that now. Thank you, Ron Tools Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:37 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating HD 6 cases to Incident 7? ** The big

Re: Migrating HD 6 cases to Incident 7?

2008-03-28 Thread Roger Justice
There is another way that will still require some customizations. Copy over the HPD:Helpdesk from 6 and then import the records into the form they came from. Create the workflow needed to create a new Incident and relate the old helpdesk ticket. This will reduce your need to map fields. -O

Re: ARWARN 69: SQL view is not in place

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Goralczyk
I don't get that error. I am on a windows box, but using an oracle db. I am also on 7.0.1 Patch 002. So it is either the version of Remedy, or the db. I would still put in a ticket on it. sounds like a bug to me. Brian On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Elry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes..

Re: Migrating HD 6 cases to Incident 7?

2008-03-28 Thread Rick Cook
The biggest thing, Ron, is not to try to push directly into HPD:HelpDesk. Push into the Interface_create form, which already has filters in place to grab some of the arcane data elements needed from other forms. It'll save you a ton of work. Rick On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ron Legters <[EM

Migrating HD 6 cases to Incident 7?

2008-03-28 Thread Ron Legters
Can anyone point me to some doc re migrating existing HD6 cases to incident 7? I've searched BMC support to no avail, and I've searched the ARSList and found a reference to a webcast from BMC that doesn't appear to be there any longer. I'm only moving over a couple of hundred active cases so it doe

Re: ARWARN 69: SQL view is not in place

2008-03-28 Thread Elry
Yes... It is a bit unusual, but we were able to replicate it in three different environments. Try creating a field called "Function" to see if you guys can replicate the error. If you can - then I think I will put in for an enhancement request. On Mar 28, 2:27 pm, Brian Goralczyk <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Pattern of $MENU$ and Drop-Down List (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-03-28 Thread HARTWICK, SCOTT G CTR DISA JSSC
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Related topic with the Drop-Down List: On the Summary+ field on the Requester Console, we have the Summary menu set as some have recommended here: drop-down list with a menu. The query works correctly if I make the menu editable, but it doesn't force

Re: rrrLoginConv help requested

2008-03-28 Thread Christine
Thanks Misi. This give me a good direction to start looking. I appreciate you taking the time to give the suggestions. On Mar 26, 3:40 pm, Misi Mladoniczky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I do not know exactly what happened. I suspect a filter that pushes some > fields to the form "CTM:People

Re: Memory leak in ARInitialization (c api 7.1)

2008-03-28 Thread Axton
Some add'l info: (dbx) stop in ARTermination dbx: warning: 'ARTermination' has no debugger info -- will trigger on first instruction (2) stop in ARTermination (dbx) rerun Running: sendrem (process id 2990) RTC: Enabling Error Checking... RTC: Running program... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ARWARN 69: SQL view is not in place

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Goralczyk
Yea, I have never seen it on a field before. But at least it was an easy fix. On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Grooms, Frederick W < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen something like this before. All I had to do was just open > the form in the Admin tool and change the database name of the

Re: ARWARN 69: SQL view is not in place

2008-03-28 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I have seen something like this before. All I had to do was just open the form in the Admin tool and change the database name of the field. When the Admin tool saved the form it created the view automatically. Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Resolved: arimportcmd error

2008-03-28 Thread Rick Cook
OK, I think I'm onto something here. The command works just fine with the 7.1 version of arimportcmd (against either a 6.3 or 7.1 server), but the same command using the same files reports an error on the 6.3 version of arimportcmd. Since I can't think of a reason that the 7.1 version would intro

Re: Commit Changes

2008-03-28 Thread Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC OC-ALC/ITMA
I second Drew's suggestion, change the order up, close window, and then commit changes. If you have the commit first, for some strange reason, it closes the window first, I've never understood why. Just give it a try. I know that if I'm opening another window, and closing the current one, that I

Memory leak in ARInitialization (c api 7.1)

2008-03-28 Thread Axton
A very simple program (does nothing, really, except create an arcontrol struct): [EMAIL PROTECTED] scratch]$ cat sendrem.c #include #include #include #include int main ( int argc, char *argv[] ) { ARControlStructcontrol; ARFieldValueList fieldList; AREntryIdType

ARS and ITSM 7 with Oracle, Case Sensitivity

2008-03-28 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Melissa
Can someone tell me the issues with changing Oracle and Remedy to be case insensitive? I have seen many posts in the past about performance hits and not being able to use "LIKE" searches, but do those things still apply? ARS 7.01 ITSM 7.02 Oracle 10g Thanks! Melissa _

Re: arimportcmd error

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Goralczyk
Rick, Have you looked at the help information in the Admin tool? Just go search arimportcmd or look at Using the BMC Remedy Import CLI. Maybe that will help. I can't offer anymore than that as I have never used the tool that way. Personally, I would just write a perl script that would load the

Re: ARWARN 69: SQL view is not in place

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Goralczyk
I haven't run into this exactly, but I have run into a case where a view was manually created in the database and then a form with the same name was created and Remedy wasn't able to create the view. That caused some grief. On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Elry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi F

Re: Commit Changes

2008-03-28 Thread Pargeter, Christie
You also might want to use run process of PERFORM-ACTION-APPLY to do a save. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tanner, Doug Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:52 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Commit Changes

ARWARN 69: SQL view is not in place

2008-03-28 Thread Elry
Hi Folks: (A) Environment: Windows Server 2003 MSSQL Database 2000 ARS: 7.1.00 Build 200708221849 (B) Error Message "Creation of one of the SQL views for the form failed within the SQL database. Operation completed successfully, but the SQL view is not in place. (ARWARN 69)." (C) Root Cause: Ke

Re: Commit Changes

2008-03-28 Thread Tanner, Doug
What you are trying should work just fine, there is additional workflow that is firing, put some AL/Filter logging on it Doug -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brittain, Mark Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 12:07 PM

Re: Commit Changes

2008-03-28 Thread David Sanders
Hi Mark Add a Run Process of Set-Change-Flag 0 after the Commit Changes and before the Close Window HTH David Sanders Remedy Solution Architect Enterprise Service Suite @ Work == ARS List Award Winner 2005 Best 3rd party Remedy Application See the ESS Concepts Guide t

Re: Commit Changes

2008-03-28 Thread Drew Shuller
Try Close Window, Commit Changes instead. Drew On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Brittain, Mark wrote: Hi All & TGIF This one is cooking my noodle becaue it should work as it. I want to use a save button instead of the one on the top right corner of the form. Attached to the save button I have an act

Commit Changes

2008-03-28 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi All & TGIF This one is cooking my noodle becaue it should work as it. I want to use a save button instead of the one on the top right corner of the form. Attached to the save button I have an active link that performs two if actions Commit Changes Close Window. When I press the save but

Re: arimportcmd error

2008-03-28 Thread Rick Cook
Nope - the password is "password". Portmapper is in place. Rick On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Roger Medsker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** > > Rick, > > > > Do you have a special character in the password? That may be throwing the > command line interpreter off. I've gotten into the habit o

Re: arimportcmd error

2008-03-28 Thread J.T. Shyman
If the server isn't registered with the port mapper I believe you can pass the port number using the -a parameter. --- J.T. Shyman -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad M Whilding Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9

Keeping Assignee Group up-to-date in multiple forms

2008-03-28 Thread Mark Milke
Hi everyone, we have a home grown order management system where there is the main order ticket that can have approval tickets and tasks attached to it. Acctually there is much more, but it doesn't matter here. All of the tickets belonging to the main order ticket need to have same Assignee Group.

Re: arimportcmd error

2008-03-28 Thread Chad M Whilding
Rick, Two problems my colleague Jayson has discovered If the encrypted password has a / in it, the import fails. There may be other potential characters that cause a problem. If the server is NOT registered with the portmapper and you try and us a mapping, the import fails. Regards, Chad Whildi

Re: arimportcmd error

2008-03-28 Thread Roger Medsker
Rick, Do you have a special character in the password? That may be throwing the command line interpreter off. I've gotten into the habit of always putting quotes around my password; even if it doesn't have a special character. You might also try using the parameters to specify the mapping file

Re: Adding SLA Due Date field to Overview Console

2008-03-28 Thread T. Dee
You also have to enter each field into SHR:ARDBCFields and you must stop and start remedy services after you have done this. Field ID: 955750016 Form GUID:MAINHELPDESK Vendor Field ID: 95575 GUID: Submitter: The field ID is the ID of your field in

*** WARUG - Fri 11 April 2008 - 8AM to 1PM - BAH Auditorium - Mclean, VA ***

2008-03-28 Thread Betina Lose
Dear ARS Listers - This is a reminder of the upcoming Washington D.C. Area Remedy Users Group (WARUG) meeting on Friday 11 April 2008 again at the Booz Allen Hamilton building in Mclean, VA. The agenda for the meeting is as follows: 8:00 - 9:00 Refreshments - Attendees Arrive,

Re: Installation Question...

2008-03-28 Thread Richard Copits
Outstanding! This really helps - THANK YOU to all who replied!! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Powell Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:13 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Question... ** For what it's

Re: Question: SYS:Notification Messages - Missing ?

2008-03-28 Thread T. Dee
Thanks - I know where they exist. The problem is when I search all the Filters there are no references to these Notifications. Ty On 3/28/08, Saravanan Palaniappan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This exist in the sys: notification messages. > > Thanks & Regards > Saravanan Palaniappan > ITSM > >

Adding SLA Due Date field to Overview Console

2008-03-28 Thread Bhagawat, Prashanth
Hi list, I have a requirement to add SLA due date for response and resolution in the ITSM 7 over view console table. The field (SVTDueDate) is available in the SLM:Measurement form which stores the SLA Duet Date for both response and resolution records for each of the Help Desk and Chan

Entries hanging in CAI:Events form

2008-03-28 Thread Jiri Pospisil
++ Please Read The Disclaimer At The Bottom Of This Email ++ Hi list, I was wondering if anybody seen this behaviour. I have configured a service request definition which creates a single work

Ensuring all CI changes go thru' Change

2008-03-28 Thread Alec Murchie
Folks, How have you managed to ensure ITIL guidelines are followed when minor changes are made to CIs? eg. when a PC asset changes Status or location how do you ensure that they go thru' a minimal Change Request process. I believe there is an automated method within the Remedy suite? On that sa

Re: OT: Documentation - Workflow, etc.

2008-03-28 Thread Mark Milke
Wait, I forgot one important thing that really addresses the core or your question. When I compare my PTG Archive and the current workflow, I get an comparison report which contains all changes documented. I can save this report or print it. I'm using this tool since a few years and recommend it

Re: OT: Documentation - Workflow, etc.

2008-03-28 Thread Mark Milke
Hi, I'm using the Panacea Workflow Studio (www.pws-europe.com), which is a migration and a developmer tool. With the Workflow Studio you can export any workflow into a XML Archive they're calling PTG. Having workflow inside a PTG I can browse it like I would browse it inside of the Admin Tool. I

[ARS 6] Cache problems

2008-03-28 Thread Mark Milke
Hello, we have three ARS systems: development, integration and production. Since using the Version 6 we have the problem, that when you login on for instance the dev server with your user tool and you log out and log in on the integration server with your use tool, then you will get a white screen