Re: OT: JOB posting and Nabble

2007-07-20 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Obviously, 5% of 296,410,404 is a lot more than 16,692 so another way to look at it: 10% 296410404 * .10 = 29,641,040.4 5% 296410404 * .05 = 14,820,520.2 14 million is a lot higher than 16 thousand... CRAIG CARTER From: Action Request Syste

Re: Transaction log is full.

2007-07-12 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
A transaction log is a log of transactions-it will continue to grow over time until it is backup up/truncated. You need to set up a database maintenance plan to regularly backup your database (includes the log file). Otherwise, it will continue to grow over time until you run out of disk space

Re: Email Loops

2007-07-10 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We're using CSS 5.x and had the same problem when one of our agents did a reply all within a ticket. We simply built a filter that fires on submit or modify to SHARE:Email that replaces occurrences of our server Email address with "" (nothing). This allows others in the message to go but removes

Re: Auto Reply email loops

2007-07-10 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We have the same setup--and problem. We basically set up filters to check for certain text in the email do not send the auto-reply when found: "Out of Office", "Undeliverable", "Symantec Antivirus", etc. Every once in a while, something new slips through and you have to adjust your filter(s). W

Re: Looking for web-based spellcheck capability

2007-05-04 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We're in the process of purchasing JSpell. I've spoken with other people who have used it with Remedy and I also discussed it with one of their technicians. It's pretty easy to implement and it's low cost as well. CRAIG J. CARTER _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList

Re: Getting Rid of the Search Bar at Top of Midtier Forms

2007-04-24 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Form-Current View-Properties The appearance and menu access tabs control what is available. It's probably the Web Toolbar that you want to set to Hidden. //SIGNED// CRAIG J. CARTER _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kais

Re: Can the login screen for the desktop client be modified?

2007-04-19 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
You could modify it with a resource editor but it wouldn't survive a reinstall and you would likely have to redo it when a new version is released. You would also be modifying a program that is protected under copyright laws. If your intent is to intercept the login and do something else with

Re: Accessing a Remedy Database through SQL without Remedy ARS (U NCLA SSIFIED)

2007-04-19 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Gordon, You wouldn't want to use the "T" tables-you would use the associated views that are automatically created based on those tables. We're using SQL Server Reporting Services and we access the data directly most of the time using the SQL ODBC driver. Advantages are you have total contr

Re: Table Qualifications / Parenthesis

2007-04-18 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
You do need the extra $ at the end of the Request Region field so it's fixing that-your original entry is not valid. CRAIG J. CARTER _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Durrant, Michael M. - ITSD Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Re: attachment pool on a display-only form

2007-03-29 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Make sure you have the button labels defined in the attach fields tabs for the actions you want available. On the display only web form, you have to click on the actual attachment in the pool before the additional buttons are displayed. The add button is the only default one shown. Another thing

Re: Forcing Workflow Changes to Take Effect on a 6.3 Midtier

2007-03-01 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Flushing the cache is how you do this in v6.3 and it should work! Double-check your work. CRAIG J. CARTER _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CG/SCWOE Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:18 PM To: arslist

Re: Direct URL with no username?

2007-02-28 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Simple--use ViewFormServlet and provide the username and pw fields for a guest account within your system. Recommend you use a jsp redirect file to specify the parameters and call the jsp file. We do the same but have our forms inside iFrames. We updated the Remedy midtier style sheet to match t

Re: Dev server DB from backup of PROD - UPDATES required SQL Serv er

2007-02-28 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Bob, We have the same setup. All we do is backup the production database, copy it to the dev server, stop the Remedy services on the dev server, and restore the prod database backup to dev. Afterwards, go into Enterprise Manager and set the ARAdmin account to dbo and public for the dev database

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Just use an active link that fires on interval and set to lowest value (3). It's next to the button action. You can outrun it if you type fast but we're dynamically updating text fields based on entries in other fields and it works great. It may work for you. //SIGNED// CRAIG J. CARTER

Re: ARS 7.0.1 Patch 1 - Any Issues on Windows Server 2003/SQL Ser v er 2005?

2007-01-26 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
.unt.edu/helpdesk/> _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:09 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Q: ARS 7.0.1 Patch 1 - Any Issues on Windows Server 2003/SQL S

Q: ARS 7.0.1 Patch 1 - Any Issues on Windows Server 2003/SQL Serv er 2005?

2007-01-26 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
I'm setting up a whole new batch of servers with ARS 7.0.1--operating system is Windows Server 2003, database in SQL Server 2005, midtier using IIS 6 and ServletExec AS 5. There is a patch 1 available for this version. Does anyone know of any problems with this patch level on this configuratio

Re: How do you stop ARS overriding Crystal parameters when runnin

2007-01-16 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
This is normal when using the ARODBC driver. Your options are to either pass the parameters from within Remedy when calling the report or use the standard ODBC driver instead of the AR ODBC driver. If you go with the standard connection, you'll have to do your own conversions for the database fie

Re: Recommended Spell-Checker for MidTier

2007-01-10 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
quest System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:55 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Q: Recommended Spell-Checker for MidTier ** We need to implement a web-based spell checker for our midtier forms as

Re: Recommended Spell-Checker for MidTier

2007-01-10 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
uct Manager, Service Management Business Unit BMC Software, Inc. _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Q: Recommended Spell-

Q: Recommended Spell-Checker for MidTier

2007-01-10 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We need to implement a web-based spell checker for our midtier forms as soon as possible. We've been evaluating JSpell. Anyone have any other good recommendations or experience on web-based spell checkers that you have integrated with Remedy-based forms? //SIGNED// CRAIG J. CARTER

Re: Strange "Malloc failed on server" error

2006-12-20 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We had this happen recently and it was actually a low space condition on C: partition on the server. We cleared some space and rebooted the server to fix the problem (Windows Server 2003, ARS 6.03 P16) -- we had regular forms as well as display only forms that did not display properly. To fix the

Re: Best Practice for ARS 7.0.1 - Install New or Upgrade?

2006-12-13 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
rom: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: Tuesday, 12 December, 2006 22:09 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Q: Best Practice for ARS 7.0.1 - Install New or Upgrade? We need to move our production system to new ser

Q: Best Practice for ARS 7.0.1 - Install New or Upgrade?

2006-12-12 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We need to move our production system to new servers. We're currently running ARS 6.3 P16, SQL Server 2000. Our choices are either to install 7.0.1 new and migrate all of our apps and data or copy the database over and upgrade to version 7. Personally, I'd prefer to install fresh and migrate

Re: Database

2006-12-06 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
You can also change the collation sequence at the procedure level. Case sensitivity doesn't seem to be maintained across linked servers between procedures and tables. We had it enabled at the table level and it maintained case sensitivity when the procedure was on the same server-it didn't mai

Re: Please Wait PopUp on Mid Tier

2006-11-14 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We didn't implement a pop-up but we did implement an animated gif that displays while the page is loading. All of our midtier content is displayed within iFrames. We simply placed an animated gif in the top center of the iFrame that displays a busy indication until the form is displayed on top of

Re: Need help with URL parameter passing in Mid-Tier

2006-11-09 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
** No, the “qual” is not needed.  We do this a lot everywhere.  Your problem may be the Mid-Tier version.  We’re on 6.3 and I’m not sure when the &F parameter option became available.   I just built one this morning loading two fields that looks like the following (values changed to )

Re: Database Query

2006-11-09 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
** …or just open the specific form and look at the attributes for that field.  The values should be listed there unless it’s a menu.  If it’s a menu, you can look at that once you determine what menu is being used.   //SIGNED// CRAIG J. CARTER From: Action Request System dis

Re: Question: Group Name / Employee Name Change in CSS Time Out

2006-11-08 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: 08 November 2006 16:18 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Question: Group Name / Employee Name Change in CSS Time Out   ARS 6.3 P16 CSS 5.0.1 SQL Server 2000   Has anyone had experience updating group names when there are a lot of assigned issues against

Question: Group Name / Employee Name Change in CSS Time Out

2006-11-08 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
** ARS 6.3 P16 CSS 5.0.1 SQL Server 2000   Has anyone had experience updating group names when there are a lot of assigned issues against those groups?  When set up, our group names included the phone number suffix to make it easy for the agent to contact that group as needed and when t

Re: HD 6.0 - Email Engine 6.3

2006-11-03 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
How are you planning on creating your notifications? We simply enter the text how we want in the body and insert the fields we want in the order we want them. If you open the entry window, you can enter carriage returns and format the mail any way you want including any of the fields you want fro

Re: multiple attachments in pool on mid tier?

2006-10-30 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
27;ll be interested to see whether the issue evaporates when we (eventually) upgrade to 6.3 or 7.x ARS. Thanks for your ideas! Doug   original message: Date:    Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:53:34 -0600 From:    "Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: multiple attachments

NEW: Open Window Actions Blocked - Other Methods?

2006-10-27 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
** ARS 6.3 P16 ServletExec 5.0 AS Windows IIS   We’ve built several web applications that open new windows (another Remedy form) to display informational messages, get feedback, etc.  Our customers are worldwide and many of them are using ISP-provided browsers and tools that prevent _ja

Re: multiple attachments in pool on mid tier?

2006-10-27 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Title: multiple attachments in pool on mid tier? ** We’ve never seen this problem and we use them all over the place in our midtier.  We’re no longer on 6.0.1 either.   This may seem obvious but are you logging into the midtier with the same permissions and have you verified the permissio

Re: Copying production database to development

2006-10-24 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We do this all of the time--backup prod and restore to dev (ARS 6.3 and SQL Server 2000). The only thing you have to do once the restore is completed on dev is to reset the existing ARAdmin login (enable dbo and public). CRAIG J. CARTER -Original Message- From: Action Request System d

Re: Mid-Tier 7.0.01 and Tomcat

2006-10-24 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Christopher, Nice analysis so far and I would appreciate it if you could post any future findings. We're preparing to stand up new servers with version 7 (currently on 6.3). We're currently using ServletExec 5 AS/IIS 6/Windows 2003 as well and it sounds like we might want to stick with this conf

Re: Crystal Error

2006-10-20 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
** I just fixed this same problem a few days ago.  All I did was uninstall Remedy User and reinstall.  It seems like the DLL reference gets messed up.  I actually installed the latest version 7 version and everything worked fine afterwards (we’re on ARS 6.3). Try that. Craig Carter

Re: Attachment buttons on web

2006-10-17 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
** Make sure you are opening the midtier views in submit mode—Add is not a valid button unless in submit/modify mode so it won’t show up in search mode.   //SIGNED// CRAIG J. CARTER From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf O

Re: SQL Server Reporting Services

2006-10-12 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Hi Stephen, It's obviously a judgement call since I didn't perform any timing tests. Since the ISAPI version wouldn't work with SSRS, we had little choice and I'm basically passing on what the midtier support team said. We haven't noticed any decrease in performance and it appeared to be faster.

Re: SQL Server Reporting Services - RESOLVED

2006-10-12 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
s you suggested. I do appreciate your help. And ... you are right, it is working faster! Urszula. Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD wrote: > > Don't bother creating a separate website--it won't help. I tried all of > that before finally figuring out what the problem is. > >

Re: SQL Server Reporting Services

2006-10-11 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
ate second website on the box and try to work RS of it. But if there is any other than this solution, I would definitely try. Thanks, Urszula Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD wrote: > > No, it works fine with 6.3 patch 16. I haven't upgraded to patch 18 but > it > shouldn't be

Re: SQL Server Reporting Services

2006-10-11 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
r Reporting Services Hi all, I have the same problem as Craig. I was using successfuly SSRS with Midtier 6.0. We migrated the server to Win 2003 and ARsystem 6.3. Now SSRS is not working. Craig, do you mean, you downgraded Midtier to ver.6 to make it work? Urszula Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD w

Re: Print Case

2006-10-10 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
** I’m not certain but this should be stored in the report form as an attachment.  We’re running 6.3 with ITSM 5.6 and the report form includes the case.arr report.  You simply build the new report and replace the current report with the new one in this form.   Open the Report form in Rem

Re: Problem with Overriding

2006-10-05 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:04 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Overriding   The ‘TR’ and ‘DB’ qualifiers are used in the main filter condition.  On submit to form F1, filter B condition would be ‘TR.Column1’ = “X

Re: Problem with Overriding

2006-10-05 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:44 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Overriding   Are you using the transaction value for Form F1?  You may want to try ‘TR.Column1

Re: Problem with Overriding

2006-10-05 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
** Are you using the transaction value for Form F1?  You may want to try ‘TR.Column1’ since that checks the transaction value being pushed to F1.   CRAIG J. CARTER From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Gopala Krishna Pe

Re: C API --> Create Ticket using Email: Category, Type, Item not working

2006-10-04 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:06 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: C API --> Create Ticket using Email: Category, Type, Item not working ** You did

Re: C API --> Create Ticket using Email: Category, Type, Item not working

2006-10-04 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Title: C API --> Create Ticket using Email: Category, Type, Item not working ** You didn’t mention the application but are these valid values for those fields?  In CSS, the value is generally “Uncategorized” for the default value.   CRAIG J. CARTER From: Action Request System

Re: Putting HD on top of CSS

2006-09-22 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
I'm not sure there are any shared forms and that would be your first question for Remedy Support. We're running CSS 5.01 and also have ITSM 5.6 loaded. Our CSS "shared" forms have a SHARE prefix while ITSM have a SHR prefix. My understanding and experience is these applications were not yet inte

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server?

2006-09-20 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We've been using the 7.0 Admin tool, Migrator, and User Client against 6.3 P16 server since they were released and have had zero problems. Some of the new version 7 options are grayed out in the Admin tool but we haven't found any issues at all. We're primarily using CSS 5x and custom application

Re: Question: Password Change

2006-09-14 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Use a filter on modify to the user form to update the password timestamp when the password changes--that will work. //SIGNED// CRAIG J. CARTER -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tyrone Dee Sent: Thursday, Septemb

Re: Upgrade ARS 6.0.1 to 6.3 gotchas?

2006-09-13 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We've been running ARS 6.3 patch 16 for several months now and it has been very stable for us. I haven't had time to evaluate/test/install patches 17 or 18 yet. We've been running Administrator v7, User v7, and Migrator v7 against this setup since it was released and haven't noticed any problems

Re: Customer Support - Contact

2006-09-12 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Yes, Contact Quick Create will allow you to add all of this at once and specify the primary phone number. SHARE:Contact_QuickCreate CRAIG J. CARTER -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dcharters Sent: Tuesday, Sept

Re: SQL Server Reporting Services

2006-09-12 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Hi Curtis, We've been using SSRS (version 2000) for several months now against Remedy v6.3 without any real issues. The biggest obstacle initially was figuring out why it wouldn't run on the same server as the midtier. It ended up being ServletExec (ISAPI version) competing with SSRS. Once we s

Re: OT- I Am Outraged! - BMC/Remedy is Outsourcing Support!!

2006-09-08 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Can we please move on? It seems like half of the posts over the last two days have been related to this discussion on a single post. I read his initial post, figured everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but felt no compelling reason to respond. //SIGNED// CRAIG J. CARTER -Original Mes

Re: Question: Migrator 7

2006-08-15 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
features that make it worth while?   Thanks again for everyone's feedback.   From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: August 15, 2006 4:49 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Question: Migra

Re: Question: Migrator 7

2006-08-15 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
** We’ve been running Migrator 7 with ARS 6.3 Patch 13 since it was released and we haven’t noticed any problems at all.   //SIGNED// CRAIG J. CARTER From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tyrone Dee Sent: Tuesday, Augu

Re: Questrion on Microsoft SQL Reporting Services and Remedy

2006-05-04 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
nd tables being regenerated on changes made to Remedy that causes SRS to have any issues? Thanks, Frank Wall Administrator -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:16

Re: Questrion on Microsoft SQL Reporting Services and Remedy

2006-05-04 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
I agree wholeheartedly with Carl's comments below. We have been using SQL SRS for months now accessing the database directly using the SQL driver versus ARODBC. We did develop SQL functions to convert the integer date values stored in Remedy to regular datetime values. It works great and is fast

Re: Question: ARS ver. 6.3 upgrade

2006-05-03 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
We're on the same environment and we're running patch 13. The escalation problem with patch 14 scared me away from that upgrade. We're getting ready to deploy patch 16 for the midtier but need more testing time for the other areas (AR System, Email Engine, etc) before upgrading everything else to

Re: Escalations not firing

2006-04-21 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
This may be obvious but check the escalations setting in Administrator--you may have them disabled. Server Information - Configuration Tab. CRAIG J. CARTER -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Collins Sent: F