Re: OT - It is time for WWRUG! Humor - for hump day!

2013-09-25 Thread Jason Miller
Maybe they added that for those of us that wanted to complain about loosing the Admin Tool in 7.5. They though if we clicked that option we would just change our opinion. :) We can't give BMC all of the credit though. That is an Eclipse option even before BMC Dev Studioizes it. Jason On

Re: OT - It is time for WWRUG! Humor - for hump day!

2013-09-25 Thread Sanford, Claire
It made me laugh! I can't wait for an evening with engineering this time around! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Miller Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:48 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Work order

2013-09-25 Thread Carl Wilson
Hi, Status Transition Rules live in the following form for Work Orders: WOI:StatusRelationships There are a number of Rules provided by BMC, some are Offline which means these are the allowed Transitions (Enabled = disallowed Transition). There is one record for every possible

Active links to change menu on field is not working

2013-09-25 Thread DEE
Hello Everyone, Environment: BIGIP (F5) 2 servers -Websphere 6.1 http cluster on UNIX 6.1.7 2 servers -Websphere 6.1 jvm cluster on UNIX 6.1.7 1 server -ARS 7.5 Patch 4 with local 11g DB on Unix 6.1.7 We have a custom change form that include the following fields Change Category Change

Re: Active links to change menu on field is not working

2013-09-25 Thread Dee
In addition, DBA verified no patches or adhoc changes to db. She was able to verify that T51 and views are fine. She see no errors in the log. This is only happening on 1 form, Change form. There are 423 directly related objects.

Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Ron Young
User interface 7.6, Developer 8.1 I created an active link on a form (in Base mode) that would require a ticket number to be inserted from the user if it were a certain type of ticket. Then when that ticket was closed I had a filter that would notify a specific group that the ticket was closed

Re: Active links to change menu on field is not working

2013-09-25 Thread Young, Ronald P.
Thanks, Ron Young “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.” -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Dee Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 7:45 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Arner, Todd
To update your custom forms and workflow in Best practice mode, you will need to convert them to a Custom customization type. My guess is your custom forms and workflow are all set to Unmodified right now. To convert them to custom, right click on the form or workflow in the object list and

Re: Active links to change menu on field is not working

2013-09-25 Thread DEE
(Original Post with additions) Environment: BIGIP (F5) 2 servers -Websphere 6.1 http cluster on UNIX 6.1.7 2 servers -Websphere 6.1 jvm cluster on UNIX 6.1.7 1 server -ARS 7.5 Patch 4 with local 11g DB on Unix 6.1.7 We have a custom change form that include the following fields Change

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Young, Ronald P.
Todd, Thanks for the quick reply. This is actually an Overlaid form. I even tried right clicking on an unmodified form and the option to convert is not even listed. Thanks, Ron Young “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.” -Original Message-

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Young, Ronald P.
Figured it out...I went back into Best mode and was able to right click on an unmodified form to convert to custom if I decided but I can't the overlaid. What to do...what to do??? Thanks, Ron Young “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.” -Original

Overlay

2013-09-25 Thread Ron Young
Another something for you all... Is this new (may be new to me)...something that just got added to 8.1 dev or have I just not been seeing it. I clicked on a field on one of my forms in Best mode and under properties it has a box with 2 drop down boxes Permissions - Overlay Type: (No overlay,

Re: Overlay

2013-09-25 Thread Longwing, Lj
Yup...go look in the documentation regarding 'granular overlay' :) On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Ron Young rpyo...@southernco.com wrote: Another something for you all... Is this new (may be new to me)...something that just got added to 8.1 dev or have I just not been seeing it. I

Re: Work order

2013-09-25 Thread pritch
Actually the status transition rules work in reverse - if the record is enabled, that role cannot transition from the from status to the to status. At least last time I looked it needed to be disabled to be allowed. But that's in 7.6.03 - not sure about more recent versions. - Original

Re: Overlay

2013-09-25 Thread Hullule, Kiran
Please look into this: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars81/Granular+overlays From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Longwing, Lj Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 7:32 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay **

Re: Overlay

2013-09-25 Thread Young, Ronald P.
I would but I don't have a login. Thanks, Ron Young To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Hullule, Kiran Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 9:33 AM To:

Re: Overlay

2013-09-25 Thread Young, Ronald P.
LJ, Hmmm...I guess that's a Yup to it's always been there. That's odd...I wonder why I am just now seeing it. Thanks, Ron Young To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: Overlay

2013-09-25 Thread Longwing, Lj
Ronald, You can create a login without the need for a support ID...so no inability for you to be able to get to the docs :) On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Young, Ronald P. rpyo...@southernco.comwrote: ** LJ, ** ** Hmmm…I guess that’s a “Yup” to it’s always been there. That’s odd…I

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Young, Ronald P.
Todd,All, I performed a little test...I guess to just make me feel better. I created 2 test forms...1 in Base mode which came in as Unmodified and then the other in Best mode which came in as Custom. I was not able to see the Best-Custom form in base mode..understood. I was able to go into

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Longwing, Lj
Ok...go into the overlaid form, convert any object that is 'custom' to 'base' with a right click...save the formdelete the overlay, then right click and convert to custom this will loose any changes made to the object in the overlay, but once converted back to custom, you can re-make

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Young, Ronald P.
Wow...so is it best to work on a custom form or overlay. I watched the video from Kiran and understand it a little but now I am just like ok...custom or overlay?? I just don't want to lose anything. Thanks, Ron Young To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

Function: MAPGET

2013-09-25 Thread Jason Miller
Hi all, I just noticed this function in some of the out of the box AR System Report workflow. I was not aware of it and figured there might be a few other that are not aware of it either. Looks like it could be pretty useful. https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars81/Functions

Re: Function: MAPGET

2013-09-25 Thread Bruce - Gmail
Thanks for this! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jason Miller jason.mil...@gmail.com wrote: ** Hi all, I just noticed this function in some of the out of the box AR System Report workflow. I was not aware of it and figured there might be a few other that are not aware

Re: Work order

2013-09-25 Thread Jason Miller
That makes sense. I only checked 'SYS:Status Transition Rules'. At first I though why are the WO rules not in the same location as other ITSM rules but realized WO being part of SRM it was designed to be able to stand alone. Although there are SRD rules in SYS:Status Transition Rules so at this

ITSM n00b looking for documentation and/or (free) learning resources

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Hicox
Everyone, I've been working with Remedy in a custom development context for a very long time, and I'm now preparing to start a new gig where I'll be working with ITSM for the first time. I've gotten rather lucky in that the shop I'll be working for has both custom development work (which I

Re: Work order

2013-09-25 Thread Rajesh Nair
Thats for the information will have look at it Learned something good from the gurus out here:-) Regards Rajesh On 25 Sep 2013 22:22, Jason Miller jason.mil...@gmail.com wrote: ** That makes sense. I only checked 'SYS:Status Transition Rules'. At first I though why are the WO rules not in

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Longwing, Lj
Ron, The chances of your code being overwritten by BMC is really slim to none unless you are using naming conventions that would be used by BMCso leaving things at base doesn't really matter in that case...but honestly...if it is YOUR code, it should be a Custom object...if it's BMC's code, it

Re: Active links to change menu on field is not working

2013-09-25 Thread DEE
This is what I have found, All the active links that are doing a Change menu, based on selecting a CATEGORY then the appropriate Menu is attachment to ITEM, seem to be corrupted. On modifying one of the Active Link, I got the following error of missing/removed group id 47, 107, 119. (See

Re: OT - It is time for WWRUG! Humor - for hump day!

2013-09-25 Thread Joe D'Souza
So could Close All Perspectives be renamed to Become a Bum? Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Sanford, Claire Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:57 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: OT - It is time for WWRUG!

Re: OT - It is time for WWRUG! Humor - for hump day!

2013-09-25 Thread Jason Miller
Maybe you use that when you are ready to retire? Or ready to die... On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net wrote: ** So could Close All Perspectives be renamed to “Become a Bum”? ** ** Joe ** ** -- *From:* Action Request

Detecting browser type in workflow

2013-09-25 Thread L G Robinson
H i Folks, Does anyone have a workflow technique for detecting the type of browser that the Mid-tier user is using? I want to try to adjust the view based on the browser type. Thanks. Larry ARS: 7.6.04 SP3 201201302357 on Solaris 10 Midtier: 7.6.04 SP3 201208101612 Hotfix on Tomcat Tomcat:

Re: Active links to change menu on field is not working

2013-09-25 Thread Mueller, Doug
Dee, If you have not finished modifying the active links, please export the existing definition of ones you are modifying and then modify them. So, you have a record. When you have an active link (or anything with permissions), you can define permissions, but they have to be to legal, actual

Re: Detecting browser type in workflow

2013-09-25 Thread Mueller, Doug
LG, Have you tried $BROWSER$. This keyword has existed for a while. Here is an OLD KB article https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=contentid=KA335773actp=searchviewlocale=en_USsearchid=1380139054044 that gives examples of the return from this for ARS 5.0 through 6.0 I TOLD YOU IT WAS

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Mueller, Doug
Ron, EVERYTHING you do in the overlay mode. In overlay mode, there are CUSTOM objects that are new things that you have added and OVERLAID objects that are ones you have overlaid from base. If there is anything in base mode that is not from BMC, you should convert it to a custom object (you

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Kemes, Lisa A DLA CTR INFORMATION OPERATIONS
Is there any way to get an object that was created in Base Mode to Custom in Best Practice (and NOT Overlay?) Would the BPCU come into play to do this? Lisa -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mueller, Doug

Re: Detecting browser type in workflow

2013-09-25 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Doug, Thanks for the reply. That certainly sounds like exactly what I was looking for. I had forgotten about that keyword. I tried to view the article that you referenced but I got Article Not Found. Must be REEEALY old. ;-) The documentation for $BROWSER$ says this: The browser (Internet

Re: Filter not working anymore

2013-09-25 Thread Jason Miller
Yes, just right click it and select Convert to Custom. That option was not present in 7.6.04 so you will need at least Dev Studio 8.0. Unless it was added in a patch?.?.? BPCU is more or less a one time thing to identify and/or convert your old pre-overlay definitions into overlay definitions.

Re: Detecting browser type in workflow

2013-09-25 Thread Jason Miller
That seems to match what I am seeing. You might be better off running some JavaScript to capture the browser. The top three entries are non-IE 1:52:58 - Android / Chrome 1:53:29 - Win 7 / Chrome 1:57:16 - iOS 6 / Safari Firefox shows as Netscape7 but it is not (knowing) pictured below. [image:

Re: Active links to change menu on field is not working

2013-09-25 Thread DEE
Thank you Doug. It had to be manual because not all was corrupted, only 10 of 15, didnot know which ones had the issue. I kept the old as record, and made notes in the Change history of each changed, and tracked with Service tickets. We get audited for change alot; so document document.

Re: OT - It is time for WWRUG! Humor - for hump day!

2013-09-25 Thread Joe D'Souza
LOL I'm not closing my perspective on that one anytime too soon :-) Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Miller Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 3:43 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT - It is

Re: Detecting browser type in workflow

2013-09-25 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Jason, JavaScript was where I was heading with my first post. Can you help me get started with that? Do you have any examples? Where does the JavaScript go and how do you get the results back into workflow where you can do stuff with it? Thanks. Larry On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Jason