Re: Repost:Strange Error

2009-05-11 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
Paul My apologies if I did not make it clear, this is happening on the Windows User Tool and not the web. Nicky i have not only cleared all the files, the user was made to delete all Remedy related directories( obviously not the program files) apart from the arcmd directory and re-create them,

Re: Repost:Strange Error

2009-05-11 Thread Paul in Austin
I would have your Vista users try the exact same actions using FireFox. If your users are on Vista, then they likely have IE 7.0 installed as that is the default browser. IE 7.0 has given us some problems with some forms (although not SRMS). We enabled a workaround by going to FireFox while we

Respuesta automatica de Ruben Arellano

2009-05-11 Thread Ruben Arellano
entre el 12 y 13 de mayo estare en viaje de negocios sin acceso al correo electronico Cualquier requerimiento puedes contactar a Raidy Ferres(r...@djcs.com.ve) Este mensaje no esta siendo reenviado ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or ac

Re: Strange Error

2009-05-11 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
You may also want to have the user's turn on logging to see exactly what is happening -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Shafqat Ayaz Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 5:24 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Strange E

Repost:Strange Error

2009-05-11 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
Hi All We are getting a strange error only on some machines running Windows Vista. The error is as follows. ARERR[326]Required field cannot be set to a NULL value-SRM:WorkInfo:Work Info Type The issue is that it is occurring only on some machines and does not seem to be related to the User pro

Re: Strange Error

2009-05-11 Thread Nicky Madjarov
Hi, Before going any further you may want to clean the ar user cached forms on these machines. Regards, Nicky Madjarov phone: 973-202-4278 Find out how to bust your AR System performance @ http://www.SpeedUpARS.com - Original Message - From: "Shafqat Ayaz" Newsgroups: public.remedy

Re: Webservices

2009-05-11 Thread Tim Widowfield
True enough, Jarl. However, to clarify even further, John never said you *needed* XML Gateway. You can always roll your own solution, and then maintain and support it throughout its life-cycle. It's just nice to have a product that can do so many things -- not the least of which is to take ad

Strange Error

2009-05-11 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
Hi All We are experiencing a strange error. It is only happening with some 4 or 5 machines currently. The error is as follows ARERR[326]Required field cannot be reset to a NULL value-SRM:WorkInfo:WorkInfoType. The problem as I said before is that it is occurring on only some machines, the only

Re: Using FPA ( Function Point Analysis ) with Remedy ARS

2009-05-11 Thread Lyle Taylor
No, I don't think so. You still need to program, and the languages used to program are 3GLs. There just happen to be tools that allow you to quickly create and maintain certain types of code such as the code used to build a GUI, interact with a database, etc. You still have to maintain the co

Re: Webservice - sample script for a basic Remedy form

2009-05-11 Thread Sean Harrodine
thanks for all the input guys ! Appreciated. Sean From: LJ Longwing To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Monday, 11 May, 2009 20:14:51 Subject: Re: Webservice - sample script for a basic Remedy form ** Here is a snipit of a perl script I use (provided by Carey) th

Re: Using FPA ( Function Point Analysis ) with Remedy ARS

2009-05-11 Thread Meyer, Jennifer L
Wouldn't that define the .NET framework as a 5th generation (or higher) programming tool used to generate lower-level code? Jennifer Meyer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Lyle Taylor Sent: Monday, M

Re: Remedy in Amazon Computing Cloud?

2009-05-11 Thread Mac McMillan
Ken, To answer your questions, theoritically, the Oracle server can be in your own server and the ARS server can be EC2 or vice versa, or as we did, we put both in the cloud. During our initial efforts to put ARS in the cloud, we found an AMI created by Oracle (AMI ami-7acb2f13) There are severa

Re: Using FPA ( Function Point Analysis ) with Remedy ARS

2009-05-11 Thread Lyle Taylor
No, I haven't done the actual analysis, I'm just speaking from my impressions based on my experience on both sides of the coin. I would agree that if you're comparing this to C programs, there's a very wide gap, and Remedy will win. However, there are now several nice frameworks available that

OT--- Something different-A job opportunity in the USA>>Boulder, CO

2009-05-11 Thread Jeff Glaser
We need a Remedy professional for a good contract in Boulder Colorado...for a Federal Agency.Vendor.This is a good contract for mid-level person.  $Compensation as W-2 employee or 1099 contractor in neighborhood of $100K   Current Clearance a real plus:   DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT AND TASKS: Job Des

Mid-Tier error: no access to form

2009-05-11 Thread Sharon Menachem
Environment: ARS & Email & Mid-Tier 7.1 patch 4 on SQL 2005, with Helpdesk 6.0, using authentication chaining - ARS-OS-Area Licensed users logging in to mid-tier frequently receive the error message that they do not have access to forms that they have no problem accessing in the user client. T

Re: Using FPA ( Function Point Analysis ) with Remedy ARS

2009-05-11 Thread Meyer, Jennifer L
I understand your point, Lyle, but have you used a function point analysis to make that comparison, or are you just making a rough estimate? The industry standard for a user writing traditional code is 10 lines of usable, functional, tested code per day. That doesn't include comments, time for

Re: Webservice - sample script for a basic Remedy form

2009-05-11 Thread LJ Longwing
Here is a snipit of a perl script I use (provided by Carey) that calls a Remedy Webservice use SOAP::Lite; my @data = ( SOAP::Data->name('Status')->value('Send'), SOAP::Data->name('Submitter')->value('PerlScript'), SOAP::Data->name('To')->value($C{email}), SOAP::Data->name('Subject')->v

Re: Webservice - sample script for a basic Remedy form

2009-05-11 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I have used the SOAP::Lite module in Perl to send and receive data thru Remedy web services. I seem to remember some examples in the Remedy BMCDN http://communities.bmc.com/communities/community/bmcdn From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Be

Re: Webservice - sample script for a basic Remedy form

2009-05-11 Thread Jarl Grøneng
You can use Groovy script with SoapUI. -- Jarl 2009/5/11 Tony Worthington : > Take a look at SoapUI.  Not a script but should do what you're looking for. > > http://www.soapui.org/ > > >  Tony Worthington >  Sr. Technical Analyst >  Kohl's Department Stores >  N56 W17000 Ridgewood Drive >  Menom

Re: Webservice - sample script for a basic Remedy form

2009-05-11 Thread Tony Worthington
Take a look at SoapUI. Not a script but should do what you're looking for. http://www.soapui.org/ Tony Worthington Sr. Technical Analyst Kohl's Department Stores N56 W17000 Ridgewood Drive Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 262.703.7763 (phone) tony.worthing...@kohls.com www.kohls.com

Webservice - sample script for a basic Remedy form

2009-05-11 Thread Sean Harrodine
Hi everyone,   Can anyone assist me with the following please.   I am starting work on our first web service and was wondering if there are any sample scripts knocking around or have BMC supplied any in the past ?, for passing some test data through to a test form with the basic fields mandatory

Re: Webservices

2009-05-11 Thread Jarl Grøneng
A clarification; You does not need XML Gateway to de-couple systems, but still it is a better system handling XML that the builtin support in AR System. -- Jarl 2009/5/11 John Baker : > LJ, > > Error handling for webservices is virtually non-existent in the AR System. > Our XML Gateway product h

OT: Experienced Remedy Developer looking for remote or C2C contract.

2009-05-11 Thread Steven Casey
10+ years experience as a Remedy Developer looking for remote or contract work. Resume and references furnished upon request. Please contact off-line. Thank you. -- Best Regards, Steve Casey 813-334-5949 ___ UNSUBSCR

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread Barnhill, Jason (Jason)
Yes, it does need to be in single quotes for the sql menu. I am also using Remedy 7 on Solaris/Oracle so that should work for you as well. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Marquez Rankin Sent: Monda

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread Marquez Rankin
So the syntax is '$FIELDID$' not $FIELDID$ ? I will try the former because the latter is what I have not and is not working On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Barnhill, Jason (Jason) < jbarnh...@avaya.com> wrote: > ** > > Hi Marquez, > > > > You can pass field variables in sql menus. You just h

Re: Prepending information to 'Notes' field on a Task (on Create)

2009-05-11 Thread Marquez Rankin
Thanks I need to do the latter I will look for those filters. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Lyle Taylor wrote: > ** > > Are you trying to get it to prepend what’s in the template to the Notes > field, or do you want to add something else (perhaps hard-coded) before the > text contained in t

Re: Prepending information to 'Notes' field on a Task (on Create)

2009-05-11 Thread Lyle Taylor
Are you trying to get it to prepend what's in the template to the Notes field, or do you want to add something else (perhaps hard-coded) before the text contained in the template? Either way, if task template processing is anything like Incident template processing, then there is a set of filte

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread Barnhill, Jason (Jason)
I didn't see this response when I responded earlier... I agree, this should be working for you. Sorry for being repetitive. Jason From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Marquez Rankin Sent: Monday, Ma

Re: ITSM 7 Network Bandwidth

2009-05-11 Thread Lyle Taylor
This isn't really the answer you're looking for, but it sounds like you actually have a fairly light load - at least from a user perspective. From my experience so far, network latency has more of an effect on performance than raw throughput. If you've got 100 Mb networks between your servers

Re: Prepending information to 'Notes' field on a Task (on Create)

2009-05-11 Thread Marquez Rankin
any takers on this? On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Marquez Rankin wrote: > > The 'Notes' information in TMS:Task comes from TMS:TaskTemplateSelection > which gets it from TMS:Template. I've been trying to drill back to where > this advanced formating for field happens. I need to prepend some d

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread Barnhill, Jason (Jason)
Hi Marquez, You can pass field variables in sql menus. You just have to use the field ID instead of the name. SELECT value FROM table WHERE field = '$REMEDYFIELDID$' I use that in many sql menus, works just fine... Jason From: Action Request Sy

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread LJ Longwing
I have done it in Search menus successfully...don't think I've tried it with SQLtry turning on SQL Logging in the client when you open the window and verify that the SQL being passed is correct. _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Beh

ITSM 7 Network Bandwidth

2009-05-11 Thread Bala Patel
All, I have seen this posted a few months ago and nobody answered.   Does anyone have any numbers on ITSM 7 bandwidth utilization?  I know a number of variables goes into this, but does BMC or anyone have any way to calculate this?  We are using SQL server 2005 and Windows 2003 Server. The db a

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread Charles Baldi
Frederick is correct, you use the field ID in the format he states. There are OOB menus that use direct SQL that you can use as a model. One such (in Change Management 7.0.3) is SYS:MNU:ChangeTimingReason-S. Regards, Chuck Baldi On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Grooms, Frederick W < frederick.

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread Marquez Rankin
yes... $fieldID$ is actually what we tried. I have not tried $field_name$ have you done this and had it work? On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Grooms, Frederick W < frederick.w.gro...@xo.com> wrote: > ** > > Have you tried using $FieldID$ instead of Field Name. It would be > something like =’$

Webservices

2009-05-11 Thread John Baker
LJ, Error handling for webservices is virtually non-existent in the AR System. Our XML Gateway product handles this nicely for you with a message handling framework. Tim is right - webservices were a nice idea, but in practice, so much extra work needs to go around them to make them much us

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Have you tried using $FieldID$ instead of Field Name. It would be something like ='$536870923$' From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Marquez Rankin Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 11:22 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Is there anyway

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread Marquez Rankin
Yeah we tried that with no success. Has this worked for you before? On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:53 AM, LJ Longwing wrote: > ** You should be able to use $Field Name$ from the form you intent to > attach the menu to to get it to substitute that value in. > > -- > *Fro

Job: Remedy Developer - Dayton, OH - WPAFB

2009-05-11 Thread Kitchen, Joshua
Looking for a Remedy Developer with 5 years experience. WPAFB - Dayton, OH 3 Month Temp to Hire Must possess a NAC/Secret/Top Secret Clearance US Citizen No Telecommute Rates - 40/HR W2 Hourly w/Benefits. Can not work on a C2C or 1099. Sorry that is all I know about the project right now. Just g

Re: Possibly spam: Using FPA ( Function Point Analysis ) with Remedy ARS

2009-05-11 Thread Lyle Taylor
"Remedy is the equivalent of a 5th-generation programming language, allowing Remedy developers to develop far faster than coders write. We're talking around 6 orders of magnitude." That's not my experience. Simple development and prototyping can be very fast in Remedy. Significant developmen

Re: Mid-Tier 7.5 Install on Windows - can give you an error.

2009-05-11 Thread LJ Longwing
:)we all understand the Monday mind isn't quite awake till noon...:) _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Robert Molenda Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 10:02 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Mid-Tier 7.5 Install on Windows

Re: A little 6.3 mid tier help if you please!

2009-05-11 Thread Warren Baltimore
Thanks Matt! I think I'm going to stick with just logging out the tech Warren On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Carey Matthew Black wrote: > Warren, > > Ok... how about this... :) > > Put together a small JSP page that would authenticate against the ARS > Server then submit a record and then

Re: A little 6.3 mid tier help if you please!

2009-05-11 Thread Warren Baltimore
Thanks Fred. I suspected that would be the only way to do this...I just didn't want to log anyone out... Oh bother! On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Grooms, Frederick W < frederick.w.gro...@xo.com> wrote: > ** > > Go ahead and logout the technician using the Logout Servlet. Use the goto > p

Re: 3 Fields into one Selection Field

2009-05-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
H, this might even be better, because another complexity I have is that if the user selects HOME for "Call First" I don't want HOME to be a selection for Call Second since it's already been selected. ANOTHER brilliant solution! Thanks so much!! Lisa -Original Message- From: Acti

Re: Mid-Tier 7.5 Install on Windows - can give you an error.

2009-05-11 Thread Robert Molenda
Whoops - no - sorry - I have already opened the defect with BMC already!!! Sorry list - not enough cafe this morning... Just wanted the list to have this information about non-standard windows install loctions, etc. Thanks for asking - and sorry for "my bad"... Robert On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8

Re: Mid-Tier 7.5 Install on Windows - can give you an error.

2009-05-11 Thread LJ Longwing
Robert, Are you asking someone from the ARSList to open that defect for you? _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Robert Molenda Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:53 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Mid-Tier 7.5 Install on Windows

Re: Slow to Switch between records in the search results list

2009-05-11 Thread Lyle Taylor
Does the form have one or more tables on it that pull in data from other forms (or even the same form)? If so, make sure that the form it is pulling data from has an index that covers the qualification the table uses to pull data. I've also seen it take a long time where there is workflow con

Re: 3 Fields into one Selection Field

2009-05-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
Brilliant! Works like a charm. Thanks s much!! Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 3:53 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: 3 Fields into o

Re: Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread LJ Longwing
You should be able to use $Field Name$ from the form you intent to attach the menu to to get it to substitute that value in. _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Marquez Rankin Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:27 AM To: arslist@ARSLI

Mid-Tier 7.5 Install on Windows - can give you an error.

2009-05-11 Thread Robert Molenda
FYI - Interesting problem discovered with the 7.5 installer (base and patch-1 installers) - since the installer logfiles are so large - it was difficult to find the "one line" to pinpoint the issue... Found that the 7.5-patch-1 installer is obviously not looking at the Envirronment Variables for

Is there anyway to pass a parameter to SQL Menu?

2009-05-11 Thread Marquez Rankin
The documentation doesnt mention whether this can be done or not. I need to pass the current request number (or instance ID) into this SQL Menu Query so it will return a list based on data within the active request. See the SQL Statement below. I should not have to hard code the Instance ID and

Re: Webservices

2009-05-11 Thread Carey Matthew Black
LJ, I do feel your pain. :) I think that in v7.1 (with the advent of Filter Error handlers) you could move the Web Service call to a filter all it's own and have it call an Error handler that does that for the user. My previous point is that as an "integration feature" such things should be spec

Re: Possibly spam: Using FPA ( Function Point Analysis ) with Remedy ARS

2009-05-11 Thread Meyer, Jennifer L
I was on an effort many years ago that used FPA to establish construction and maintenance of our internal system while we were moving to CMM level 3. We carried out a successful effort and integrated our efforts into a Remedy application for future project tracking and future estimates. You wi

Re: Macros in 2009 (was What would $--1$ relate to?)

2009-05-11 Thread Marty.Thorin
Dear Carey: I agree with you that all Macro actions can now be done with Active Links. When we find an old Active Link using a Macro we automatically upgrade it. But the Windows User Tool has a macro drop-down list with about 150 active entries. They are heavily used to prompt and the

Re: What would $--1$ relate to?

2009-05-11 Thread LJ Longwing
I don't recall if it was 7.0 or 7.1...but I thought it was funny that they removed the 'convert macro actions' admin tool optionthat was really the end of when I used macros in every day workflow. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@

Re: Slow to Switch between records in the search results list

2009-05-11 Thread LJ Longwing
I would turn on API and SQL Logging before doing the switch and see if you can see any delays in the logs _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of kiran kodali Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 7:12 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Slow

Re: Webservices

2009-05-11 Thread LJ Longwing
That list reminded me about another one that bugs me. I don't like how when an external webservice times out, the client tells you there is a problem with the plugin server and tells you to contact your Remedy Administrator. In this case, there is NOTHING wrong with Remedy, the issue is with the e

Slow to Switch between records in the search results list

2009-05-11 Thread kiran kodali
Hi All, It is taking much time to switch between records in the search results list in user client. Did anybody experience the same problem? It happens even with the forms having less data(500 records). Please let me know the parameters that would be affecting this dealy in switching b/w records

CMDB / Asset CI - Templates for documenting CI's

2009-05-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, I am trying to provide different business groups a template/spreadsheet for listing out their devices with the config information that they know about it. We are currently in process of rolling out server/network discovery tools but want to manually load Server/Network CI's. We already hav

Re: 3 Fields into one Selection Field

2009-05-11 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, Why not have a char-menu show the values "Work Phone", "Home Phone" and "Cell Phone". Then have active-links that triggers on Menu Choise that populates the fields with the right value. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se Products from RRR Scandinavia: * RRR|License - Not