SCOM-to-Remedy Alternatives?

2009-12-11 Thread Tim Widowfield
Hey, everybody. Happy Friday! Does anybody out there now of an alternative to Microsoft's SCOM-to-Remedy connector? I'm especially interested in the ability to push SCOM alarms to Incident Management in ITSM 7.5. Thanks. --Tim

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2009-08-11 Thread Tim Widowfield
** You keep saying that word... I do not think you know what it means.--TimFrom: Darrell Reading darrell.reading...@wal-mart.comTo: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGSent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:35:38 AMSubject: Re: [ARSLIST] UNSUBSCRIBE ** Inconceivable! Darrell Reading Systems Engineer Phone

Re: What's the difference between a Remedy Administrator and a Remedy Developer?

2009-07-22 Thread Tim Widowfield
Or Remedy Architect -- you know, the guy who looks over your shoulder and says, You're doing it wrong. --Tim From: Chowdhury, Tauf tauf.chowdh...@frx.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:55:08 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] What's the

Re: History of AR System

2009-06-30 Thread Tim Widowfield
Was he the guy with the plastic dinosaurs? --Tim From: Frank, Gordon M. (CMS/CTR) gordon.fr...@cms.hhs.gov To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:38:42 AM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] History of AR System I'm going to take you all way back. Who

Re: History of AR System

2009-06-27 Thread Tim Widowfield
Oh, yes. Stacked buttons! And server-side macros before Push Fields actions were possible. Being able to dispense with all our horrid run-process macros was a major step forward. Before pushes, when you sent data from one form to another via a filter Run Process action, it happened in phase

Re: Service Filter and plugin

2009-06-19 Thread Tim Widowfield
I don't know if this is your problem, but I've found that the Service action in an active link won't do anything unless you map both inputs *and* outputs. I was running some tests awhile back where I was simply trying to run a procedure based on an active link trigger. I didn't really care to

Re: Integration - Turn Around Time

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Widowfield
You're describing the exact scenario for which enterprise messaging was designed. I recently helped a customer build an integration solution between AR System and a couple of external systems. They had already decided on a message queuing system, because they needed something scalable,

Re: ARERR [311] Field ID is not related to this form : 200000020

2009-05-30 Thread Tim Widowfield
Since you've searched the field database table and all the form tables, it's time to direct your attention to workflow. Can an active link or filter refer to a field ID and without that reference appearing in a log? Of course. This is Remedy. If I were in your shoes, I'd export a definition

Re: Walking through table - server side, maybe?

2009-05-28 Thread Tim Widowfield
Brandi, Check the Workflow Objects Guide for 7.1, p. 222. You can see that old kludgy notation was replaced by the Table Loop feature in the Call Guide action. See page 114 for details on the Call Guide action for active links and filters. Looping over a table works pretty much the same on

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

Re: RPC in Java API

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Widowfield
@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:03:27 AM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] RPC in Java API ** Hi I have ar java api 7.0, in the javadoc for this version don’t find those methods =S Thanks Greetings   De:Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] En nombre de Tim

Re: AW: RPC in Java API

2009-04-09 Thread Tim Widowfield
someone explain me the Private RPC queue? When does it make sense to use a private queue? another Robert Von: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] Im Auftrag von Tim Widowfield Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. April 2009 23:38

Re: RPC in Java API

2009-04-08 Thread Tim Widowfield
On the ARServerUser class page in the JavaDoc, search for the string RpcQueue. There are three methods that control setting the RPC queue: useAdminRpcQueue() useDefaultRpcQueue() usePrivateRpcQueue(int rpcProgramNum) It does seem a bit curious that there isn't a constructor for ARServerUser

Re: API 7.5 Linux Request

2009-04-02 Thread Tim Widowfield
Here's how you can manually extract the APIs (or binaries, or whatever else) from the AR Linux installer. - Uncompress ARSuiteKitLinux.tar.gz and extract the tar's contents. - In the resulting directory called ARSuiteKitLinux, navigate to ARSuiteKit/Disk1/InstData. - Expand the Resource1.zip

Re: Anyone using the Remedy C-API on windows?

2009-03-20 Thread Tim Widowfield
I'll second your motion, Ben.  For the ARS API programming, I've used msys with the gcc compiler on Windows, and the resulting executables worked just fine.  Visual Studio is OK, and even more tolerable for me now that I bought a vi emulator for the code editor.  However, I can't help but think

Re: Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and CMDB

2009-02-18 Thread Tim Widowfield
I cannot fault your logic, John. The actual market for any book dealing with Action Request System must be exceedingly small. And yet I see books on the market with audiences the must be equally tiny. For example, how many people in the world actually develop and administer PeopleSoft

Re: 7.1 Java API and 7.0.01 ARServer

2009-01-19 Thread Tim Widowfield
) at com.xqsr.arsystem.CreateEntry.main(CreateEntry.java:20) Thanks. Regards Barath On 1/19/09, Tim Widowfield tim_widowfi...@yahoo.com wrote: Without seeing the source, it will be impossible to say exactly what your problem is. But to answer your first question, the 7.1 Java API does

Re: 7.1 Java API and 7.0.01 ARServer

2009-01-18 Thread Tim Widowfield
Without seeing the source, it will be impossible to say exactly what your problem is. But to answer your first question, the 7.1 Java API does work with earlier versions of AR System. Post a few lines of code and maybe somebody can help you. --Tim From:

Re: 6.3 patch 25 API question

2009-01-14 Thread Tim Widowfield
Well, we could debate about what it *should* do, but it appears to be doing what it *said* it would do -- namely, if more than one matching request comes back, then use the first one. So it runs your query, returns the result set to the calling workflow object, and the active link or filter

Re: Job: Remedy Developer (Mid Level) - Contract - Baltimore, MD - Kforce

2008-10-09 Thread Tim Widowfield
Try this: What'll it be? Hmmm? Try that. Come on. We haven't got all night. Try it. What'll it be, HM --Tim - Original Message From: Joe DeSouza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2008 1:53:10 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] Job: Remedy

Re: Nabble 2?

2008-09-16 Thread Tim Widowfield
Have you tried searching the archive at Google Groups? It ain't bad. --Tim - Original Message From: Kemes, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:33:50 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] Nabble 2? ** Also, as far as our list was concerned it was

Re: weird IP addresses in the logs

2008-09-16 Thread Tim Widowfield
I once heard that you could turn your help desk into a profit center. Hence, not investing in it would be short-sighted and ill-advised. Oh, dear me... Now who was it who told me that? Mmmm. Starts with a B... --Tim - Original Message From: Axton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Salary in Bay Area

2008-08-06 Thread Tim Widowfield
Cool. Then when the Pinkertons come to bust us up, you can fend them off while we run away! --Tim - Original Message From: David.M Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 12:06:36 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] Salary in Bay Area I've had my nose

Re: Buy vs. Build

2008-07-22 Thread Tim Widowfield
I think this is where Enterprise Service Suite (ESS) @ Work turns out to be such a bargain. It's very solid application suite that's every bit as functional as ISTM *and ITIL compliant* without the recurring expense of extra application licenses. http://buoyantsolutions.net/ESS.html

Re: OT: Friday (strange) humor

2008-07-18 Thread Tim Widowfield
** I hope I'm not the only old guy who was thinking "old tubes" was a reference to vacuum tubes. - Original Message From: "Pierson, Shawn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGSent: Friday, July 18, 2008 9:42:32 AMSubject: [ARSLIST] OT: Friday (strange) humor ** You can tell

Re: BMC Service Request Management

2008-07-01 Thread Tim Widowfield
I think hairy is a bit of an understatement. I don't consider myself an expert in the matter, but from what I've seen, Kinetic Request is a whole lot easier to implement and manage. Once again, your mileage may vary, I am not a lawyer, and I'm not the regular crew chief; however, in every

Re: Slightly OT: Creating a .sql file from a batch file

2008-06-30 Thread Tim Widowfield
The caret is used for the escape character when you want the literal character instead of a special command shell reserved character (, |, (, ), , , ^). Note that the behavior is different if you use single quotes vs. double quotes. For example: C:\echo 'hi | there' 'there'' is not recognized

Re: Where is the background appearance information stored?

2008-06-19 Thread Tim Widowfield
Are you asking about background color or background image? Or both? --Tim - Original Message From: Uday Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:42:45 AM Subject: [ARSLIST] Where is the background appearance information stored? ** Hi Listers

Re: Help: Remedy Java API 7.0

2008-05-31 Thread Tim Widowfield
Well for one thing, you're over-thinking the creation of long primitives. You can simply tack on an L to a number, and the compiler will recognize it as a long. For example this: entryItems[0] = new EntryItem(new FieldID((new Long(536870925)).longValue()), new Value(unidade.getData1()));

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread Tim Widowfield
I thought by now some joker would have said, Spelt is spelled wrong. --Tim - Original Message From: Thad K Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:34:06 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong) ** u may B ryt. I

Re: 7.1 Server with 7.0 API - Qualification Error

2008-02-28 Thread Tim Widowfield
Actually, I tend to use field IDs all the time in my qualifications inside API programs. Why? Because even though nobody should ever change a field's database name, there is always the possibility that it could happen. Some people just can't keep well enough alone. To address the

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-22 Thread Tim Widowfield
Wait, wait... This statement isn't right: ..the discussion isn't TRversus DB values, but rather whether or not there is a need to use theTR values (DB values are useful). No, the point is in a filter qualification when you refer to a field name on the form, it is assumed by the AR Server

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-22 Thread Tim Widowfield
Sorry. I was wrong in my previous email. ( 'Fieldname != $NULL$ ) AND ( 'Fieldname' != 'DB.Fieldname' ) ...is *NOT* the same as: ( 'TR.Fieldname != $NULL$ ) AND ( 'Fieldname' != 'DB.Fieldname' ) ...because without the TR prefix, the AR server will check the value for the transaction

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-21 Thread Tim Widowfield
Well, I can only speak for myself, but I normally use the TR. prefix, just so you can look at the qualification at a glance and understand what it means. It reminds me of C and Java programmers who omit braces when they aren't necessary. Sure, it's legal, but is it more readable? Too often

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-21 Thread Tim Widowfield
Well, the best method I ever saw for finding out what people are really like went something like this: HOLDEN You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a...

Re: Consuming Complex Web Service

2008-02-11 Thread Tim Widowfield
It certai You need to create your own soap-plugin to support this... It certainly has gotten less difficult now that we can create Java-based plug-ins (in 7.1); however, it's still a whole lot easier to do this kind of thing with the XML Gateway. Shameless plug:

Re: Resp to Gidd/Bouyant/ADV: Xtreme/Dashboard

2008-01-25 Thread Tim Widowfield
Matt, I'm sorry you see Flash as a show-stopper. For other it's a ... show-starter? We settled on Flash as our best bet on the next-generation UI for RIAs not because it's cool, but because it's finally become clear that Ajax has gone about as far as it can -- but it just isn't good enough.

Re: Resp to Gidd/Bouyant/ADV: Xtreme/Dashboard

2008-01-25 Thread Tim Widowfield
Full disclosure: I'm not Gidd, I don't even look like Gidd, and I'm not writing on his behalf. However, I am involved in this project, and -- as usual -- I have some opinions on the matter. I will agree that Mid Tier is pretty impressive for what it does. If you compare it to the original AR

Re: ARS Java API 7.1 configuration error

2008-01-04 Thread Tim Widowfield
** jar -tvf will give a list of the files without unpacking the jar, if you are just looking for a class within. If only the Remedy clients were platform agnostic, I would no longer use it; vmware helps with this though. Axton On Jan 4, 2008 2:27 AM, Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: ARS Java API 7.1 configuration error

2008-01-03 Thread Tim Widowfield
) at com.bmc.arsys.api.ARServerUser.do(Unknown Source) at com.bmc.arsys.api.ARServerUser.createEntry(Unknown Source) at CreateEntry.main(CreateEntry.java:27) Thanks for your time. Chintan. Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can see by the exception

Re: ARS Home Path

2007-12-28 Thread Tim Widowfield
You might find it easier to deal with the results from 'echo' rather than 'set'. For example: C:\echo %temp% C:\Users\taw\AppData\Local\Temp C:\set temp TEMP=C:\Users\taw\AppData\Local\Temp Both work, and both are very fast. However, with the first method, you don't have to chop away

Re: You are granted one wish for ARS -- what is it?

2007-12-26 Thread Tim Widowfield
I was going to say, Functions inside qualifications. However, on further reflection that seems awfully mundane. OK, I wish for a full-fledged debug client. I want the ability to trace variables, set breakpoints, walk through workflow step by step -- the works. --Tim - Original

ARDBC Plug-in Returns only Subset of Data -- Why?

2007-10-26 Thread Tim Widowfield
Hey, everybody. I was wondering if anyone out there has seen this issue before. It's got a lot of people baffled. A customer has an AIX server running the latest patch for AR 5.1.2. The target LDAP server is Novell, and it doesn't allow anonymous browsing. When the Remedy daemons start

Re: ARDBC Plug-in Returns only Subset of Data -- Why?

2007-10-26 Thread Tim Widowfield
use regular ldap instead of ldaps, what does a packet dump show different between the two environments? Axton Grams On 10/26/07, Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, everybody. I was wondering if anyone out there has seen this issue before. It's got a lot of people baffled

Re: ARDBC Plug-in Returns only Subset of Data -- Why?

2007-10-26 Thread Tim Widowfield
to a size/memory constraint? (and thus you get a partial record) HTH -- Carey Matthew Black Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On 10/26/07, Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Friday - Yes humor A Preschool Quiz.....are YOU smarter?

2007-10-12 Thread Tim Widowfield
It has a high degree of truthiness, too. ;-) --Tim --- Joseph Kubasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Staying with the theme of snoping postings, this has been debunked: http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.asp It's still funny though. Joe P.S. Is snoping even a word? If it

Re: JDBC ARDBC Plugin

2007-09-09 Thread Tim Widowfield
Jarl, I agree that SOAP is the hottest integration technology when it comes to sharing data between enterprises, but I think there are still cases where in-house you might want the tighter integration and sheer convenience an ARDBC JDBC plug-in could give you. It's astonishing how many

Re: OT: Friday Humor...Maybe More Cool than Funny

2007-08-31 Thread Tim Widowfield
It isn't necessarily politics. General Smedley Butler indicated it's more a matter of paying attention to what's really going on... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedly_butler --Tim --- Andrew Hicox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess wether it's cool or not depends on your politics ... For

OT: I Apologize Profusely

2007-07-23 Thread Tim Widowfield
Ladies and Gentlemen, I apologize for my outburst earlier today. Somebody in a wholly unrelated group sent me a very troubling email that I felt obliged to respond to. Unfortunately, he had BCC-ed the other group, and I added the ARSLIST by mistake in my reply. I'm deeply sorry for offending

Re: Sorting a string of numbers ?

2007-06-12 Thread Tim Widowfield
This is the sort of thing that's probably best done at the database level with TransactSQL, but just for fun I wrote up a JScript script. Here's the gist of it: var args = WScript.Arguments; var tempArray = new Array(); var inputString, outputString = ;

Re: Date in Case number

2007-04-23 Thread Tim Widowfield
If you're looking for more fuel, I can help. Don't do it. Matt is right -- if at all possible, don't mess with the Request ID. It reminds me of those silly names the IT people give printers and servers, like HPLJ5305RCWF for HP Laser Jet 5 in building 30, 5th floor, Right Corner, by the

Re: C API not returning value.

2007-03-23 Thread Tim Widowfield
If this is an unlicensed server, you may be in the unfortunate situation where you've got one thread. And so the workflow calls the API program, but the workflow itself is blocking the only thread you've got. No matter how long you set the timeout to, it's never enough! Yes, it's happened to

Re: Who's in charge of support at BMC? (U)

2007-03-15 Thread Tim Widowfield
The only thoughts I can add have to do with the irony of the whole thing. Can it really be that the company that sell the premier help desk application can't provide decent customer support? I mean, it just seems like yesterday that BMC/Remedy marketing was telling us how customer support

Re: AW: Who's in charge of support at BMC? (U)

2007-03-15 Thread Tim Widowfield
... -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Tim Widowfield Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 17:28 An: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Betreff: Re: Who's in charge of support at BMC? (U) The only thoughts I can add have

Re: Who's in charge of support at BMC? (U)

2007-03-15 Thread Tim Widowfield
discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Widowfield Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:28 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Who's in charge of support at BMC? (U) The only thoughts I can add have to do with the irony of the whole thing. Can it really be that the company

Re: java.lang.NullPointerException

2007-03-11 Thread Tim Widowfield
c If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say that this method: com.remedy.arsys.goat.preferences.ARUserPreferences.setPreferenceValue() ...tries to write to a field ID that did not yet exist in 6.0.1. As you can see, the next call is the stack trace dump. One of the

Re: Is this a bug??

2007-03-08 Thread Tim Widowfield
I remember doing something similar way back in the 3.2 days. I had decided to put an apostrophe in a field database name. I regretted doing it almost immediately. I would recommend using (USD) instead of ($), because inserting any character that Remedy considers special into a field name

Re: DST - Real Savings - Redemption Not Allowed !!

2007-03-02 Thread Tim Widowfield
Every time I hear people talk about DST, I start thinking of the classic discussion about amplifiers in This Is Spinal Tap. These go to eleven. --Nigel Tufnel Maybe it's just me... --Tim - Original Message From: Lucero, Michelle - IST contractor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: FW: Active link logging with mid-tier 6.3

2007-02-20 Thread Tim Widowfield
Since everybody else seems to be in the mood to rant, here's one of my pet peeves. The development teams for AR Server, Remedy User, the Mid Tier server, and the Mid Tier client apparently aren't allowed to talk to one another. How else can you explain the colossal differences among the

Re: ARDBC Plug-In for MS Access

2006-12-20 Thread Tim Widowfield
Hi, Doug! You mean a vendor form? Didn't James Croom write a generic ARDBC plug-in for ODBC? If you're on MS SQL Server, you can probably create a database link via the OLE-DB interface. Then you can use a simple view form and query against the Access table. Tim Widowfield http

Re: Java Search Record API

2006-12-20 Thread Tim Widowfield
is to literally check for null with an if statement, and then proceed only when I know it's OK. I'm not saying that's your problem, but it's a species of bug that's bitten me more than once. Tim Widowfield http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: Mikhail Serate [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT-Funny WorkFlow Issue

2006-12-19 Thread Tim Widowfield
You forgot the step where you send them a def file, as if they're really going to install your code on one of their boxes. Oh yeah... and there's the step where we all turn to the manual and read it together. That's always a special moment. Tim Widowfield http://www.widowfield.com

Re: Autocomplete and the username field

2006-12-15 Thread Tim Widowfield
Is your Mid Tier using a secure web server (https)? I believe ever since version 6.0, Internet Explorer doesn't support autocomplete on secure web pages. Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: L. J. Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist

Re: Can I call a filter inside an Escalation ???

2006-12-14 Thread Tim Widowfield
link and filter log files where an active link makes an innocent Set Fields query that triggers five pages of Get Entry filters. Yuck. Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: Tarun Kumar SHARMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent

Re: $PROCESS$ Issue

2006-12-13 Thread Tim Widowfield
that to let me run server-side commands via an active link using @@: notation. If I can run it manually through the form, I can be reasonably sure that it'll run on the server in a filter. Also, it lets me see the whole error, which might not have made it into the filter log. Tim Widowfield

Re: COM Automation

2006-12-06 Thread Tim Widowfield
); WScript.Sleep(1000); wsh.SendKeys(%{DOWN}); WScript.Sleep(1000); wsh.SendKeys({DOWN}); WScript.Sleep(1000); wsh.SendKeys({ENTER}); I think Alt+Down Arrow (%{DOWN}) should open a menu. Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: Hall Chad

Re: How to create wait action?

2006-11-30 Thread Tim Widowfield
Well, assuming it's a server Run Process action and not a Set Fields $PROCESS$ action, then I don't understand what you're saying, Jarl. How can it affect a server thread? A Run Process is a phase-three event where the AR Server simply executes the command in a shell without waiting for any

Re: ARTask parameters

2006-11-24 Thread Tim Widowfield
Curiously, the Label parameter in the ARTask file *is* the VUI name, but it has absolutely no effect on how aruser.exe opens the form. For example, I can be working in the Read-Only view of a form, and when I send it to a friend using right-click -- Send -- Form -- Mail Recipient, I get

Re: Vacancy for Remedy Developer in Bristol

2006-11-18 Thread Tim Widowfield
--Tim I've been told there's a pair of Bristols in the UK, too --Tim - Original Message From: George T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 9:07:24 AM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] Vacancy for Remedy Developer in Bristol What Bristol ??? There

Re: check field

2006-10-16 Thread Tim Widowfield
L.J., I think that's a much better answer than to have a space character for the selection value. I also create checkbox fields with null labels, for two reasons. First, when you look at most examples of Windows GUIs, the checkbox is on the left and the text is on the right. We should

Re: URL Background Process

2006-10-15 Thread Tim Widowfield
. Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 937-878-9045 f: 937-878-9055 m: 937-369-7012 http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: Conrad Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:37:04 AM Subject: [ARSLIST] URL Background Process

Re: LIKE operator with brackets in search

2006-10-12 Thread Tim Widowfield
fields. Tim Widowfield http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: Mike White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:32:47 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] LIKE operator with brackets in search Thad, Thanks. I think you're onto something

Re: Remedy integration with CVS

2006-10-10 Thread Tim Widowfield
later this year, I may try it out, but for now I'm just not motivated... Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 937-878-9045 f: 937-878-9055 m: 937-369-7012 http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: Carey Matthew Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Monday

Re: How to pass nothing

2006-10-10 Thread Tim Widowfield
and all) in an EXTERNAL() query. Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 937-878-9045 f: 937-878-9055 m: 937-369-7012 http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: Nicoll, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:07:03 PM Subject

Re: Java ARServerUser method / How to specify a TCP Port

2006-10-06 Thread Tim Widowfield
--Tim -- Check the Util class for the ARSetServerPort() method. --Tim - Original Message From: Jack Samson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, October 6, 2006 7:54:21 PM Subject: [ARSLIST] Java ARServerUser method / How to specify a TCP Port All, I have created

Re: Menu to retreive field label names...under certain conditions

2006-10-02 Thread Tim Widowfield
is 'Test01' and its field ID is 536870913. Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 937-878-9045 f: 937-878-9055 m: 937-369-7012 http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: Joe D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Monday, October 2, 2006 9:43:06 PM Subject

Found While Searching for Something Else -- Using TransactSQL to Get Form View Alias

2006-10-02 Thread Tim Widowfield
%') - End of Script I tested this in Query Analyzer, but it should work in isql, too. == Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 937-878-9045 f: 937-878-9055 m: 937-369-7012 http://www.widowfield.com

Re: passing ipconfig information

2006-09-19 Thread Tim Widowfield
it in the registry, but I don't see how you can be sure which interface is primary. Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 937-878-9045 f: 937-878-9055 m: 937-369-7012 http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent

Re: adding attachment using C API

2006-09-14 Thread Tim Widowfield
file: %s\n, str_vals[i]); perror(\tFile error); } break; Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 937-878-9045 f: 937-878-9055 m: 937-369-7012 http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message From: jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist

Re: adding attachment using C API

2006-09-14 Thread Tim Widowfield
--Tim - Original Message From: Always glad to help. --Tim - Original Message From: jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 6:15:32 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] adding attachment using C API Hi Tim, You saved my life! It works

Re: cleaning up queue

2006-09-03 Thread Tim Widowfield
I think what he means is: One of the crossbeams has gone out out of skew on the treadle. --Tim - Original Message From: Mimi Lakew To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Sunday, September 3, 2006 1:16:31 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] cleaning up queue ** I am pasting the

Re: ARSLIST AWARDS

2006-09-01 Thread Tim Widowfield
Congrats, Axton! --Tim ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org

Re: Get Rid of the Splash Screen on User Tool

2006-08-31 Thread Tim Widowfield
Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Widowfield Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:34 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Get Rid of the Splash Screen on User Tool This question comes up from time to time, so I thought I'd

Re: Pre-Friday Humor

2006-08-24 Thread Tim Widowfield
I move we duct tape a webcam to Daniel Bloom's head and stream the video and audio out to the world. Anybody second the motion? --Tim - Original Message From: Rick Cook To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:48:01 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] Pre-Friday

OT: Re: [ARSLIST] Lowercase Login field

2006-08-20 Thread Tim Widowfield
OK, I'll bite. Is loser case a Freudian slip? --Tim - Original Message From: Joe DeSouza To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 4:33:29 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] Lowercase Login field ** If I were doing it via ARS I would run an escalation, NOT a

Re: Need help w/ .NET CreateEntry

2006-08-15 Thread Tim Widowfield
Sometimes you'll find a display-only form with workflow that pushes data to an underlying real form when you push a button. It often looks as if the D.O. form is the container, which can be confusing. You may have to turn on filter logging just to find out where the data finally ends up.

Re: Need help w/ .NET CreateEntry

2006-08-15 Thread Tim Widowfield
Well, I know I'm drifting off topic here, but I think you and anybody with Perl and Java experience would be much more comfortable with C# backpages with ASP.NET. Unless, of course, you're *forced* to use VB Ugh.:-o --Tim - Original Message From: Chris Lane [EMAIL

Re: Need help w/ .NET CreateEntry

2006-08-14 Thread Tim Widowfield
Hmmm... What's the reference for Request.Form, as in 'Request.Form (F_Area), 4)'? Rather than using the Add() method, I think the example from the CHM file might be a little easier to read and maintain. For example: Dim fieldValueList Set fieldValueList =

Re: API + VBScript : list of fields in a from

2006-08-07 Thread Tim Widowfield
I couldn't find a GetListField() method anywhere in the ARSystem .NET help file (ARSystem.NET.chm). Perhaps you were thinking of the Server.GetAllFields() method. Here's a sample from the CHM file: Dim fields Set fields = server.GetAllFields(formName)

Re: Remdy integration with CVS

2006-07-12 Thread Tim Widowfield
. At least this was the state of affairs throughout the late 90s and the early 00s. If SourceSafe has recently gotten more reliable and scalable, that's nice. (But I kinda doubt it... I mean, consider the "source.")Tim Widowfield[EMAIL PROTECTED]v: 937-878-9045f: 937-878-9055m: 937-369-7012http:

Re: help With API

2006-07-06 Thread Tim Widowfield
intellectual property now. Would anybody be interested in open-source, Java-based tools to create, modify, and delete entries (requests)? If so, I could build them put 'em out on my web site. Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 937-878-9045 f: 937-878-9055 m: 937-369-7012 http

Re: help With API

2006-07-06 Thread Tim Widowfield
on the Mac again! Do you remember back when there used to be a Mac client? How about the curses client in Unix? -- now that was an interesting animal! Tim Widowfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: 937-878-9045 f: 937-878-9055 m: 937-369-7012 http://www.widowfield.com - Original Message

OT: Changing Automatic Zoom/Page-Down in BMC/Remedy's PDFs

2006-05-10 Thread Tim Widowfield
is right-click on A and select Delete. Acrobat will as you if you're sure you want to delete the article. Don't worry; you won't be deleting any content. The article is just a navigational aid. Click OK and breathe a sigh of relief. To make the change permanent, simply save the document. --Tim

Re: OT: Lazy posters

2006-05-09 Thread Tim Widowfield
Amen, Brother Warren. One of the reasons I stay subscribed to the ARSLIST is the anti-RTFM nature of the group. I can't tell you how many times I've been stuck on some non-ARS problem at 3:00 AM, and forced myself to search through old Usenet articles. I invariably come across the most

Re: Excel with ARS Functions?!?

2006-05-09 Thread Tim Widowfield
Adam, You've run into the COM/Automation/ActiveX (or whatever else MS is calling it this month) interface to the native Windows client, Remedy User. You can do a search in the Registry, where you'll notice Remedy.User.1 is related to a LocalServer32 that points to something like

Re: ARSList Awards 2006

2006-05-01 Thread Tim Widowfield
Hey, that's one of the more benign misspellings. I still wonder if my drill instructor in basic training ever knew my real name Hm --Tim --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am even going to double check name spellings etc. although I still liked Tim Windowfield.

Re: Urgent incoming email engine issue

2006-04-21 Thread Tim Widowfield
I know this isn't helpful, but what is it about the weekend that causes the Remedy Email Engine to act up? --Tim --- William Rentfrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is AR Server/Email engine patch 16. When using an incoming email submit template the documentation (and Remedy tech support)