Re: best method to hide attributes in a cmdb class

2009-01-25 Thread Sam Ferguson
Hi Lyle, when you install CMDB you get the AST forms as your user interface. As you observed, they are missing some tabs, specifically around financials. If you installed AM then you would get this extra functionality. Sam -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(AR

Re: employee setup form best practices?

2008-11-19 Thread Sam Ferguson
This can end up being complex or not so complex, depending on the business requirements you are trying address, the levels of smarts you need in the system, the flexibility for further types of account setup activities in the future, other types of employee things you could be doing such as employe

Re: SLA Based on End Time

2008-10-23 Thread Sam Ferguson
me' != $NULL$ in the SLA definition. >From my limited testing, it appears that all existing SLA's continue to function correctly. Sam From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Ferguson Sent: Friday, 24 October 2008 10:04 a

SLA Based on End Time

2008-10-23 Thread Sam Ferguson
I have a customer that wishes to agree the time when an Incident Request needs to be completed, at the time of creating the request in the Incident form. I am looking at how I can configure Service Targets which will measure against the agreed end time, not based on when the Incident Request is log

Re: Consuming a webservice with a three level deep XSD

2008-10-23 Thread Sam Ferguson
Trond, I have done similar before, it is possible to have at least 3 levels of parent-child relationships. Sorry I can't be of more help. Sam From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trond Valen Sent: Friday, 24 October 2008 3:50 a.m. To: A

Re: Customizing ITSM7 Multi-Tenancy Mode

2008-06-25 Thread Sam Ferguson
Charles, Assuming this requirement is valid and has been discussed in detail to ensure this is a sensible requirement... You could look at separating company B into two. One for incident and one for change. The users of company B would belong to both of these separated companies, and users of c

Re: Efficiency question

2008-03-25 Thread Sam Ferguson
Brian, both scenarios will use the escalation queue, and in 6.3 only one thread. Scenario 2 will have an overhead in terms of filter counts, plus also roll back. If any one of the records fail then the whole process will roll back. Sam From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Force Users to Use Update Button

2008-01-16 Thread Sam Ferguson
You're not using the default status field, ID 7? You can change the field properties on character fields to drop down list. Then users can only use the menu. Sam -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Collins S

Re: Site question for ITSM 7

2008-01-16 Thread Sam Ferguson
essage- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Ferguson > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:02 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: Site question for ITSM 7 > > Ron, the one time this became an issue for a

Re: Site question for ITSM 7

2008-01-16 Thread Sam Ferguson
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Re: QUESTION: Table

2007-12-20 Thread Sam Ferguson
Rob, A few options: 1) The active link which opens the dialog window can then have a change field action which refreshes the table field. 2) Have the close button on the dialog send an event and have the form with the table field have an active link run on event which refreshes the tab

Re: Direct SQL Active Link to query Oracle from SQL Server

2007-11-15 Thread Sam Ferguson
d Nov 14 2007 19:56:34.7100 */*** ERROR *** The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION. (SQL Server 3903) /* Wed Nov 14 2007 19:56:41.5850 */SQL Trace Log -- OFF Sam Ferguson-3 wrote: > > Brooks, try turning on SQL logging via the client and see the

Re: Direct SQL Active Link to query Oracle from SQL Server

2007-11-14 Thread Sam Ferguson
Brooks, try turning on SQL logging via the client and see the content of SQL statement being issued to the database, this may help show you what the issue is. Sam -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of brooksm Sent: Th

Re: is it possible to use the notifier on Unix/Linux ?

2006-07-20 Thread Sam Ferguson
Mid-tier is an option to providing this functionality to users, although it would not be a real time alert. Users can view the alert list forms via mid-tier. You could add custom workflow to this form to refresh the table list if a new alert event is created for the logged in user. Add a button

Helpdesk 6.0 Installation Failing at 87% - Resolved

2006-05-07 Thread Sam Ferguson
.   Thanks to those that provided assistance. Sam   From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Sam Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 2:15 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Helpdesk 6.0 Installation Failing at 87% Hi List, I am

Re: Optimization question

2006-05-04 Thread Sam Ferguson
** There are other benefits of having one active link instead of two: - Less active links to list in the admin tool.  We have all seen how long this takes if you have a large system. - When the form definition changes and the user tool needs to download another version of the .arf and .ar

Re: Helpdesk 6.0 Installation Failing at 87%

2006-05-03 Thread Sam Ferguson
.  Then install Patch 002, then install HD.   James McKenzie   From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 2:15 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Helpdesk 6.0 Installation Failing at 87%   Hi

Re: WSDL's two questions

2006-05-03 Thread Sam Ferguson
In the past I have spent many hours editing the definitions in a .def file, by the end of a 5 hour session trying to get a def file right I was a nervous wreck. It is much easier in a .xml file. It can still be difficult to get everything quite right, but if you have a large number of fields m

Helpdesk 6.0 Installation Failing at 87%

2006-05-03 Thread Sam Ferguson
** Hi List,   I am having an issue with the clean (not upgrade) installation of Helpdesk 6.0 on ARS 6.03 Patch016, Oracle 9, Solaris 9.  This is the second time of installing helpdesk and for the second time the helpdesk install has gotten to 87% and is showing no further activity.  AR sy

Re: WSDL's two questions

2006-05-02 Thread Sam Ferguson
Title: Message ** Mike, I don’t have any options for your first issue of loosing the mappings.  Sounds like an enhancement request to BMC Remedy!   However when it comes to migrating workflow, I have found it rather easy to change the URL in the definition file before importing to the tar