View and Vendor forms not allowed in Join Forms

2008-06-03 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Good morning all, I was hoping not to create extra forms and workflow... but I have 1 View form and 1 Vendor form.. I need to combine the data from both, however can't use either in a join form. Any ideas on what would work best, without creating 2 new staging forms, extra workflow to create

Re: Requester Console vs. Incident Management Status

2008-06-03 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hi Ricki, The requester console status allows the customer (end user) to view the progress of his/her request. True, they don't match up to the Incident or Change status values. I have personally attempted to add-modify Status and Priority for the Requester Module and Incident Module and I

CI Relationship View Issue - What am I missing?

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hello ARSList, This is for an issue with CMDB 2.1 (ARS 7.1, Mid-tier amp; ITSM 7.03 patch 7 Suite) I am using the Remedy Windows client to run through a test and functionality. When I select the CI Relationship Viewer, either from Asset or Incident a new screen pops up - CI Relationship

Re: CI Relationship View Issue - What am I missing?

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin Pulsen
webserver. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Kevin Pulsen lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: ** Hello ARSList, This is for an issue with CMDB 2.1 (ARS 7.1, Mid-tier amp; ITSM 7.03 patch 7 Suite) I am using the Remedy Windows client to run through a test and functionality. When I select the CI

Re: Which log file.....

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} ..shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Wow... what are the odds of the same issue (Ldap) and the same fix on the same day? What a co-winkie-dink. Kevin P. ** Turns out that if I

Re: ARS 7.1 Area LDAP config issue

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
be able to give you the distinguished name for the user. nbsp; --- J.T. Shyman nbsp; From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Pulsen Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:50 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ARS 7.1 Area LDAP config

Re: No available columns when creating a view form from SQL

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
If you are attempting to create a view form from an external sql database For SQL Server— TABLENAME or DATABASENAME.OWNER.TABLENAME (Make sure you specify dbo if the current user is the owner of the table.) Also make sure ARAdmin has permissions to the sql db you are attempting to create a

Re: No available columns when creating a view form from SQL

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Here is a screen shot. You will need to select one of the columns as a designated Key field. Kevin P. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: Where

Re: No available columns when creating a view form from SQL

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Just want to make sure of a couple of items. 1. You have created a Linked Server (From the AR database server) to your external database. (Are both of these db's SQL 2005?) 2. ARAdmin has rights to access the external database. Kevin P. ** When I hit load nothing shows up on the available

Re: No available columns when creating a view form from SQL

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Without the REQUIREMENTS of the external db not having any column (field) that enforces non-null and unique values, you CAN NOT create the view form. You need to talk to your dba's. Kevin. --- On Fri, 5/23/08, Kevin Pulsen lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: From: Kevin Pulsen lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED

ARS 7.1 Area LDAP config issue

2008-05-22 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Hello all,I'm trying to config the AREA LDAP form for Active Directory authentication, when a user login into the Remedy client.I have followed the documentation from the integrating 7.10 guide and have the following values set in my AREA LDAP form -Host Name* - tcdc1.testco.comUser Base* -

Re: ARS 7.1 Area LDAP config issue

2008-05-22 Thread Kevin Pulsen
or typing the wrong password.. If it is really testco\NETWORKOPS\Admins\Support Desk\tuser1 try \\testco\NETWORKOPS\Admins\Support Desk\tuser1. Maybe its missing the double back slash in the beginning..Joe- Original Message From: Kevin Pulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGSent

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Thank you Shawn for your reply.My concern is, and this is what I have heard from BMC, when designing your Product categories, you need to think ahead to the design of the CMDB as well. It's all interrelated and affects reporting, trending analysis etc.I find it very difficult to design my

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Well,I find it very disturbing from what Shawn stated - "Part of the problem is that there are no good answers to your questions"If the CMDB is really suppose to be the center of the Universe for ITSM, as it shows so well in the BMC literature, how can there be no real good answers?And if ITSM

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Thanks Phil,I wasn't being sardonic.We have a non-IT support group that maintains non-IT related products (light bulbs, etc) they do however use Remedy.The point I have overlooked is that ITIL relies so much on IT only products, that the ITSM suite really excludes all other non-IT departments

ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Hello everyone,This question is for ITSM 7 (Service Desk with Change Management, ootb)If you open the Application Administration Console. Select Standard configuration, Product Category, Create a new product category, you are prompted to select a CI type for the product categorization you are

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Hi Eli,ok, but where does a Blackberry fall into the ootb CI?where does a telephone, office desk, fax, etc fall into the ootb CI?These aren't defined and the product category creation wizard will not allow you to created a item without defining a CI.Thanks,Kevin P.** Kevin, The OOTB CI's are

ASP.Net code (Web page accessing ITSM 7 Incidents)

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Hello everyone and happy Friday!I am extremely new to asp.net coding, couple of days to be exact.Here is what I have done so far -1. Downloaded and installed MS Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition.2. Created a SQL DataSource connection to my SQL 2005 ARSystem database3. I am able to pull

Re: ASP.Net code (Web page accessing ITSM 7 Incidents)

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Hi Matt,I already have this file, the sample in the arsys_aspnet does not convert properly into MS Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, it will not load.Plus, I still lost at how the connections are made where -1. Login Page (Check your Remedy LoginID and password from CTM:People

Re: ASP.Net code (Web page accessing ITSM 7 Incidents)

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Well,It's an exercise in learning. I seen it done before and I would like to see if I can replicate it myself.Thanks Matt for the info on the reference BMC.ARSystem namespace, after tweaking around I got the API 7.1 sample file to open and run.There are some issues with conversion from .net 2.0

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin Pulsen
The original question was asked about ITIL and ITSM 7. BMC is suppose to have ITSM 7 extremely ITIL compliant... how can one use ITSM 7 and expect the users not to follow ITIL in all areas of the IT organization? Yes, there will be many o-departments boasting about 'We don't need to follow

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin Pulsen
There seems to be a smoldering issue here. In previous versions, you could customize the dickens out of the ootb applications (To fit your business needs). However now with ITSM 7, customization is a four letter word. You are allowed to configure it, but if want to customize it you are

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-05 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hi Kathy, The Helpdesk really should be the owner of any incident. It's best that the customer has only one single point of contact - the helpdesk.. they need to own the incident from cradle to grave.. and they should be able to spawn any change or problem from the given incident. From a

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-05 Thread Kevin Pulsen
System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Pulsen Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ITIL Remedy ** Hi Kathy, The Helpdesk really should be the owner of any incident. It's best that the customer has only one single point

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-05 Thread Kevin Pulsen
? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Pulsen Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ITIL Remedy ** Hi Kathy, The Helpdesk really should be the owner of any incident. It's best

Re: OT - RE How to make a Production Server Up?

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin Pulsen
at these suggestions and see if they help any _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Pulsen Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:43 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT - RE How to make a Production Server Up

Re: OT - RE How to make a Production Server Up?

2008-04-24 Thread Kevin Pulsen
This is how you make up a production server - 1 Cup of Filter Guides 2 Tsp of Active Links (with Run If qualifiers) 512 GB of Wyndows Server (or 4GB of Lynux, your taste preference) 1 - 3 Months of Contract work (Because IT'S M an upgrade, don't you know!) 7 dollars an hour Put all the above

Re: Remedy Mid-Tier over a network....

2008-04-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Good morning Richard, From the post, it's a little confusing... It states that all of the parts/modules are up and running (Does this include your Mid-tier?) If the Mid-tier is up and running, you should be able to access it via the following url - http://(Your Mid-tier

Re: MidTier and Unsupported Locale

2008-04-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hi Lisa, I believe it is from the Czech Republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cz It might be a setting in the regional ans language settings (If a MS Windows system ?) Kevin P. ** I THINK this is because of a language setting on the customer's IE. I THINK ca is for Catalan which is not

Re: Track-It Helpdesk?

2008-04-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Good morning Welton, From the looks at version 8, it uses SQL 2000, 2005 as the main database. If previous versions use SQL, a view form could be easily setup to access data from the Track-IT database and use it in Remedy. Remedy can easily pull information from various sources via View and

Re: Track-It Helpdesk?

2008-04-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Pulsen Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:50 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Track-It Helpdesk? ** Good morning Welton, From the looks at version 8, it uses SQL 2000, 2005 as the main database. If previous versions use SQL, a view form could be easily setup

Re: MidTier and Unsupported Locale

2008-04-23 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hi Lisa, My bad, the CZ through me... it does look like CA_CZ is a dialect of Spanish. I would try to make a copy of LocalizedMessages_es.js and rename to LocalizedMessages_ca.js. Restart the mid-tier, etc. These are just local language error messages See if that helps. Kevin P. ** Hi Lisa,

First Contact Resolution (FCR) ITIL ITSM 7

2008-03-27 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hello all, I'm trying to find information on FCR (First Contact Resolution) specifically for the Service Desk person. Is there a starting goal within ITIL regarding FCR? For example... the Service Desk needs to meet a 35% FCR goal. Or is this number subjective? If anyone is using FCR, could

Re: Error Dialogs

2008-03-21 Thread Kevin Pulsen
How about ARInside utility? Kevin P. ** Yeah, I was only joking. I know that it could be useful for documentation purposes (for a few, anyway), too. But it would be kinda time consuming to gather them all, because they're in so many different places - there are some that reside in

ITSM 7 ootb customization shenanigans!

2008-03-12 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Background - System Apps - ITSM 7.003 patch 7 ootb Forms - HPD:Help Desk, HPD:IncidentInterface_Create, PBM:Problem Investigation Fields - Status Database ID 7, Priority Database ID 100164 Issue - Attributes tab, ID Enumeration is set default (Linear, 0,1,2,3 etc) Yet the field Urgency

Re: Strange Remedy and VPN

2008-03-12 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hi Kathy, If it's a windows system, you can try to add the IP address and FQDN of the system in the hosts file. Some VPN's don't resolve DNS properly. It might look something like this... 192.168.0.3ARSERVER.HOST.COM the file should be in c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Have

Re: How to find out the Request ID value of a current new entry

2008-03-06 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hi Pascal, You can use a similar method that is used in the ITSM suite. ITSM 7 uses a supporting form called Ticket Number Generator to generate Incident numbers. This allows the service desk person to have the incident number before it is saved as a record in the database. If the incident is

Re: Adding an Attachment while using the User Tool

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hi Lisa, You can also have the user drag and drop the attachment to the attachment field. Kevin P. On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:59:57 -0500, Kemes, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Customer has Windows XP OS, AR System Client 7.0.1 Patch 002. He is using his laptop screen and his desktop screen

ARS 5.12 Helpdesk 4.03 - Submit ticket Display only form question

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hello ARSList, I have workflow related question. I am currently working on a system that includes the following - ARS 5.12 Helpdesk 4.03 The first form that is loaded upon login is a helpdesk console, this is a display only form and has several buttons to create, search and view existing

ARS 5.12 Helpdesk 4.03 - Submit ticket Display only form question -repost

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Pulsen
Hello ARSList, I have workflow related question. I am currently working on a system that includes the following - ARS 5.12 Helpdesk 4.03 The first form that is loaded upon login is a helpdesk console, this is a display only form and has several buttons to create, search and view existing