Re: Possible Outer Join Bug ....Can anyone confirm or know if there is a fix?

2008-07-24 Thread Axton
An update, I've received the following stack traces during the reproduction of this or something similar. Two signal 11's. As a side note, one thing I think Remedy needs is the ability to define joins with multiple data sources. Take the join in this example, the base tables and the largest join

Re: Question: Trigger a Modify ?

2008-07-24 Thread T. Dee
The escalation sets Field "A", but the Filter that is suppose to fire on MODIFY when Field "A" is != $NULL$ does not fire. I have tried TR as well. In the escalation I tried to do a "set fields" and then I tried a "push fields", but both don't trigger a Modify. I'm running Windows 2003, SQL 2005

Re: Question: Trigger a Modify ?

2008-07-24 Thread Lisa Westerfield
Strange... I use this exact 'TR' workflow all the time with no problem. Have you tried logging it to see that it is indeed failing on the run if? Just an idea. -Original Message- From: T. Dee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:55 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Question: Trigger a Modify ?

2008-07-24 Thread Leonard Neely - FOJ
Does your filter fire when you manually set the value in field "A"? Also, do you mind telling us what platform/version, Etc you are on? Thanks, Leonard -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Dee Sent: Thursday, Ju

Re: Question: Trigger a Modify ?

2008-07-24 Thread T. Dee
I don't want to exclude AR_ESCALATOR - I want the Filter I have set to run on MODIFY be triggered when the escalation does a set field to field "A". The TR.fieldname != $NULL$ does not seem to work either. Thanks for your help! On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Rick Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: Question: Trigger a Modify ?

2008-07-24 Thread Rick Cook
You could list an exclusion for the "AR_ESCALATOR" user from the Run If on your Filter. Rick On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:38 PM, T. Dee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an escalation running that is setting field "A" with a value - > this works. I also have a filter that fires on MODIFY if fiel

Re: Question: Trigger a Modify ?

2008-07-24 Thread Lisa Westerfield
You may want to try 'TR.fieldname' != null -Original Message- From: T. Dee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:37 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Question: Trigger a Modify ? I have an escalation running that is setting field "A" with a value - this works. I also hav

Question: Trigger a Modify ?

2008-07-24 Thread T. Dee
I have an escalation running that is setting field "A" with a value - this works. I also have a filter that fires on MODIFY if field "A" is NOT NULL. The problem is the filter is not firing when my escalation runs. Is there a way to "force" a modify after the escalation runs so my filter will ru

Re: CMDB class for circuits?

2008-07-24 Thread ARS Bob
cool. thanks! On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Danaceau, Chris < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** Bob we used "Connectivity Segment" Here's a sample Product > Categorization record. > > > CI Type CatSchemaKey Product Categorization Tier 1 Product > Categorization Tier 2 Product Categorizatio

Re: Assignment Engine

2008-07-24 Thread Lisa Westerfield
There is actually just a button that you click to mark un/available, and yes they will stay un/available until you click the button again. Btw - I found this to be very useful for managers of a group in my last 2 implementations. This allows managers to view their groups tickets easily from co

Re: Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Howard Richter
This is starting to sound like what we were talking about in 2001 and 2002, the end of Remedy as we know it. hbr On 7/24/08, Susan Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ** Riley, > > Are you a Remedy developer? > > Susan > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Riley, Russel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: OT: Available Developer in Chicago area needed - FILLED

2008-07-24 Thread Susan Palmer
One happy girl at this location !! Susan On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Susan Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > If you're an ARS developer located in the Chicago area and are available > please let me know. > > We're currently on ARS v7.0.1P3 using Oracle 10g. Our old HD v5

Re: Help with a UNIX script to STOP the AREmail daemon

2008-07-24 Thread strauss
On my AREmail problem (silent death of service) the "answer" of the day from BMC Support is to upgrade the client on the server from Outlook 2003 Sp2 to Outlook 2007. Has anyone tested using Outlook 2007 as the client instead of Outlook 2003 Sp2 as specified/discussed in the ARS 7.1 Release Notes?

Re: Assignment Engine

2008-07-24 Thread Sokol, Brian
That stinks. Ok last question. I am assuming to make someone unavailable you change a status or something like that? If so will that person remain unavailable till you go back and mark them available? Brian From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [

Re: Assignment Engine

2008-07-24 Thread Lisa Westerfield
There's not a way to schedule a person as un/available ahead of time, unfortunately. The only thing that you can schedule ahead of time for a support group or support staff are business hours (support group) and on-call hours (support staff), but this isn't connected to the assignment engine at al

Re: Change Multiple Fields

2008-07-24 Thread Leonard Neely - FOJ
Andy, I usually accomplish this be simply creating an Active Link that fires on Window Load, Display, Etc., and an execution order that pretty fires after everything else on the form. The "Action" would be a "Change Fields", setting the desired fields to "Read-Only". That way: 1. I don't have to

Re: Fax to Attachment

2008-07-24 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
Hello Joel I worked on a system  that did something similar a long time ago, and I cannot remember all the details, but what I remember is this Incoming fax came in as a text file which was passed to a bar code reading program, which read the bar code and translated it into straight text, this p

Re: Pros and Cons of ARS development - was Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Gary Opela (Corporate)
Sean, thanks for the exhaustive list. It was interesting to read things you have related to ITSM. I've never used ITSM, so I've not seen many of the annoyances you have. My main problems that I have with other development platforms are as follows: 1. They're not Remedy. 2. They're not Remedy

Re: QUESTION: SYS:Notification Messages - ITSM 7

2008-07-24 Thread Leonard Neely - FOJ
Yes, but (assuming this is on Incident Management) there is a filter (HPD:INC:NotificationGenerator_899_PNPC`!), which pushes that value to the 'Support Group ID' field on "NTE:SYS-NT Process Control" which has a field length of 15. Leonard -Original Message- From: Action Request System d

Re: Change Multiple Fields

2008-07-24 Thread Vyom Labs - ITSM Support
** Hi Andy,   We can't do "Display only" for multiple selection fields. Even we can do "Audit Option" for the multiple field selection.   Hope this helps... Regards, Sandeep Vyom Labs Pvt. Ltd. An ISO 2 certified company. Consulting | Outsourcing | Training || BMC Remedy BSM | ITIL Web : www

Re: Pros and Cons of ARS development - was Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Garrison, Sean (Norcross)
Having been a developer for years here are some of my experiences: 1. Remedy is great for rapid development. You can't develop an app any faster that will offer as much functionality as ars will offer in such a short amount of time. 2. Remedy allows you to make changes on the fly. (#1 featur

Re: Assignment Engine

2008-07-24 Thread Sokol, Brian
Thanks Lisa. Is there a way to flag someone as available when they log into Remedy. Can you select data ranges when they will be unavailable? Thanks, Brian From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa Westerfie

Re: QUESTION: SYS:Notification Messages - ITSM 7

2008-07-24 Thread T. Dee
i'm pushing the group ids to 'z1d NT group ID' and it is set to 0 (zero) length - so it there is no limit. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Leonard Neely - FOJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the SQL error you were getting under this condition? > I'm not 100% sure, but I think that support g

Re: Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Gary Opela (Corporate)
Because you can develop a quality remedy app in less than half the time. If you look at the course of a few years, you save a lot more than 25k in payroll alone. Thanks, Gary Opela, Jr., RSP Remedy Engineer Leader Communications, Inc. http://www.5pointleader.com http://www.lcibest.com Be

Re: Assignment Engine

2008-07-24 Thread Lisa Westerfield
Brian, I can't speak to the version compatibility as I've not had this combo in my environment, but I can tell you that the assignment engine will only assign to people that are marked as "Available for Assignment" within their support group. You can actually toggle your support staff back and f

Re: Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Riley, Russel
Why buy AR Server for 25k when you can get a Visual Studio Express edition, and SQL Server Express and make better apps? For Free or at least not for 25k? Who uses Access anymore nowadays? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: QUESTION: SYS:Notification Messages - ITSM 7

2008-07-24 Thread Leonard Neely - FOJ
What is the SQL error you were getting under this condition? I'm not 100% sure, but I think that support group id(s) that you use in the "User Name" field of the Notify filter, are expanded at runtime, to the actual group name. If that is the case, and depending on the combined length of the group

Re: Change Multiple Fields

2008-07-24 Thread Rick Cook
Andy, there are some tools for multiple field property changes, but that's mainly dealing with positioning and labels - not other field properties. Rick On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Mayfield, Andy L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to mark several fields on a form as "Read Only". I thoug

Re: Fax to Attachment

2008-07-24 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Are you sure it is Remedy that parses the cover sheet today? I would think it is the Fax receive software that is doing that and then calling an API program to attach the fax. Are you replacing the fax receive software? From: Action Request System discussion list

Change Multiple Fields

2008-07-24 Thread Mayfield, Andy L.
I need to mark several fields on a form as "Read Only". I thought I remembered there being a way to do this all at once instead of having to select and change each field individually, but I can't remember how that works. Anyone know the answer to this off the top of their heads? Andy L. Mayfield

Re: Fax to Attachment

2008-07-24 Thread Rick Cook
Joel, there are numerous internet-based fax services - could calling one of those from Remedy workflow be a viable solution for you? I would imagine that one or more of them has a command line and/or web service interface. Rick On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Joel Sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Fax to Attachment

2008-07-24 Thread Joel Sender
ARSlisters, I was asked this question and drew a blank: We are starting a custom ARS application implementation to replace a current proprietary system. The current system has a faxing functionality we need to be able to duplicate. Unfortunately, we cannot access the current coding because it is

Re: Call for Presentation - Last day July 25th

2008-07-24 Thread Rick Cook
I would love to see at least one session devoted to how developers can leverage the new Eclipse tool to enhance the use of AR System. We've been given a tease, but most of us need the box expanded some. And another to get an idea of how we might enhance the tool itself. I don't mean a "how to wr

Re: Pros and Cons of ARS development - was Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Frank, Gordon (CMS/CTR)
I have always called ARS a 4.5 GL. It restricts you to only do things a certain way (i.e. Change Display is only on an Active Link). So it's a little better than a 4GL which allows you to do the same thing in many ways. SQL could be argued to be a classic 4GL. I consider a 5GL to be Artificial I

Re: Pros and Cons of ARS development - was Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Jason Miller
This may not be a pro for businesses who use Remedy but the fact that it is not a mainstream language makes it a good market those who know how to develop with the tool. I think typically a Remedy developer's pay is going to be higher than say a .NET, php, . So with all of the typical features tha

Re: Question: Approvals in ITSM 7 (Chg Mgmt)

2008-07-24 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Can you check to see at that "Sheduled for Review" phase, if it is set to "One must sign" or "all must sign" That may be the issue. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Sr. Analyst Office: 631.858.7765 From: Action Request System discussion list(AR

Re: The incident e-mail notification has a miss-formed url, how can I correct?

2008-07-24 Thread Howard Richter
John, At this point I have gone down the small filter on the e-mail messages form, but today we are going to work with win admin and see if we can remove the fqdn (and the system will still work). hbr On 7/23/08, john rosquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ** I am interested in finding this o

Re: QUESTION: SYS:Notification Messages - ITSM 7

2008-07-24 Thread T. Dee
The system understands the SGP group ID with no problem - if I put just one in, however, more then one and it does not like it. I have tried commas, semi colons, spaces, returns, etc. and nothing works. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would expect you to

Re: QUESTION: SYS:Notification Messages - ITSM 7

2008-07-24 Thread T. Dee
Tried this, but unforunately Remedy does not like multiple group numbers. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Run4Life &Win <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** > Hi Dee > > You need to add all the group IDs in the filter notification ( same place > where you define single group name or ID) > > Hope th

Re: QUESTION: SYS:Notification Messages - ITSM 7

2008-07-24 Thread T. Dee
Thanks Leonard - sounds like a great workaround, but alot of work just to notify 6 groups. You would think that Remedy would have their notification engine be able to handle this. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Leonard Neely - FOJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** > > The concept of your multip

Re: QUESTION: SYS:Notification Messages - ITSM 7

2008-07-24 Thread T. Dee
Thanks Melvin, but that didn't work either. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Cox, Melvin E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try a hard return after the coma > SGP0090, > SGP0070, > SGP0089 > > Not sure why but some of our notifications with multi recipients require > this ot

Re: Pros and Cons of ARS development - was Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Shawn, I have thought _a lot_ about how to describe ARS over the last 10 years. I find it interesting that lots of programmers can not even agree on what "generation" of a language (and in some cases if ARS is a language at all) that ARS is. I have also observed that most business people have a ha

Question: Approvals in ITSM 7 (Chg Mgmt)

2008-07-24 Thread Eli Schilling
Greetings listers! I've been seeing some oddities in our change approval process lately so I wanted to kick this out to the list for feedback. The Details: We're on AR 7.0.01 Patch 006 (Win2k3, SQL 2005, etc); we're using Approval Server 7.0.01 and Change Management 7.0.03 Patch 006. At "Sc

Re: Pros and Cons of ARS development - was Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
A couple of points... Variables: I have never had a problem with the concept of Display Only fields as variables. I have worked on VB and C applications that had so many variables defined you needed a spreadsheet to keep track of what was done where. I have worked with Remedy applications with

Re: Pros and Cons of ARS development - was Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Chapin, John
"Pros and Cons of ARS development" Being relatively new to ARS development, my "fresh eyes" definitely agree what I think you're saying: debugging workflow is very awkward. For a tool that calls itself a development platform, this is not a minor drag but a gaping hole. And I too have stared in di

Assignment Engine

2008-07-24 Thread Sokol, Brian
Can anyone tell me how well this product works. We are on ARS 7.1 and Help Desk 5.6. Will it work on that combo? Also if I use a Round Robin rule to assign tickets within a Group how do you let the system know that a technician is not available? There does not seem to be much in the way of document

Re: Crystal Reports Server XI and Midtier version 7.1

2008-07-24 Thread Steven Iocco
ok, so I installed ARWebReportViewer on the machine, using the 'other' and 'other' options for the web server and JSP engine. It installed under C:\Program Files\AR System\ARWebReportViewer. How do I fetch the configreport.jsp page without the http server? Sorry, I am pretty new to the web

Pros and Cons of ARS development - was Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I want to change the topic slightly and go off on a tangent that keeps coming up repeatedly. That topic is of the power of ARS for development. While I agree that ARS is great, I would have to qualify that to say that if you want to build an application that is within its capabilities, it is gr

Re: Crystal Reports Server XI and Midtier version 7.1

2008-07-24 Thread Steven Iocco
Thanks Sandeep. Do you have the PDF available to email to me? Any help is appreciated. Steve Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:32:14 +0530From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Crystal Reports Server XI and Midtier version 7.1To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Steven, Take existing Tomcat and follow the steps

Call for Presentation - Last day July 25th

2008-07-24 Thread Kelly Deaver
** Listers, For all the discussion in the past about things you'd like to see presented at user world, I'm shocked at how few of you have submitted a presentation you are willing to present. (yes, I'm on the inside now and helping to plan the topics) I have been watching the list and I haven't even

Re: QUESTION: SYS:Notification Messages - ITSM 7

2008-07-24 Thread Cox, Melvin E.
Try a hard return after the coma SGP0090, SGP0070, SGP0089 Not sure why but some of our notifications with multi recipients require this others do not. hth -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

Re: Export Automation -- Possible ??

2008-07-24 Thread Roger Medsker
Also, you can view by packing list and then any new objects you create will be automatically added to the packing list; or at least they are supposed to be. If multiple developers are working on separate issues with their own packing lists you can create a master packing list by adding each individ

Re: Unable to start ARS

2008-07-24 Thread Uday Joshi
Hi Anoop, The 390600 is an Admin thread. Hope you have not used the same for defining private queue. You enable the arthread logging and restart the arserver. The thread log will show what all threads are getting started. Best Regards, Uday Joshi Delivery Manager - BSM Tech Support Technology