Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-13 Thread David Sanders
m discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 3:06 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications One item I must question... Your statement about "fully-normalized data structure". I believe you are

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-13 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of David Sanders Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 7:23 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications Theo ARS is not the only rapid development platform. For example, take a look at

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-13 Thread Theo Fondse
st(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of David Sanders Sent: 13 January 2012 15:23 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications Theo ARS is not the only rapid development platform. For example, take a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWUb_4XqHcw&feature=p

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-13 Thread Theo Fondse
System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Baker Sent: 13 January 2012 13:53 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Overlay and Applications Theo, > Lastly, To answer your question "can anyone think of a disadvantage with > taking workflow from the schema an

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-13 Thread David Sanders
0:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications John, Firstly, the 3/4 GL differentiation is important to appreciate in this regard, and therefore, relevant. The Action Request System platform *IS* a 4GL and as such it is not fair to do direct comparisons to functionality

Overlay and Applications

2012-01-13 Thread John Baker
Theo, > Lastly, To answer your question "can anyone think of a disadvantage with > taking workflow from the schema and into scripts?: (a) Or you can use one of a million tools, such as grep. (b) Yes, they do. Any good plugin to Eclipse or whatever will have a "show references". (c) Yes, they d

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-13 Thread Theo Fondse
cussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Baker Sent: 12 January 2012 21:37 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Overlay and Applications Guillaume I do take onboard your points but I have to disagree: AR System provides no version control. If you believe it does, please t

Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread John Baker
Guillaume, Happy to compare with HP Service Manager: the product uses a script based approach whilst also providing users with a UI. Locking/reserving objects isn't source control: it's visual source safe, circa 1995. VSS has since died. I made a very simple, obvious suggestion: storing the sche

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread LJ LongWing
Guillaume Rheault Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:05 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications John, It seems to me you are not familiar with the latest features of ARS or Mid-tier. To many features and enhancements have been introduced since ARS and mid-tier 6.3. It look

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread Jose Huerta
It doesn't work like that. First, version control is independent for each element at the server. You don't rollback to a date, you rollback some workflow or some forms to a previous state, remaining the rest untouched. Second, two people working separately on the same object is not desirable. In

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread Jose Huerta
On Behalf Of John Baker > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:37 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Overlay and Applications > > Guillaume > > I do take onboard your points but I have to disagree: AR System provides no > version control. If you believe it does, ple

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread Guillaume Rheault
: Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:37 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Overlay and Applications Guillaume I do take onboard your points but I have to disagree: AR System provides no version control. If you believe it does, please tell me how I revert a form to its state at any point in time since

Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread John Baker
So, three developers are working on something. Developer A decides that he needs to re-run the application as per date X. If that means developers B and C see the same change, it's not useful version control, particularly if there are no diffs. Indeed, do developers B and C, who may have also bee

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread LJ LongWing
uary 12, 2012 12:37 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Overlay and Applications Guillaume I do take onboard your points but I have to disagree: AR System provides no version control. If you believe it does, please tell me how I revert a form to its state at any point in time since AR System was

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread Easter, David
lto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Baker Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:37 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Overlay and Applications Guillaume I do take onboard your points but I have to disagree: AR System provides no version control. If you believe it does, please tell me how

Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread John Baker
Guillaume I do take onboard your points but I have to disagree: AR System provides no version control. If you believe it does, please tell me how I revert a form to its state at any point in time since AR System was installed, and no, taking hourly backups of my database isn't a useful step for

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread Guillaume Rheault
msolutions.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Overlay and Applications Jose, I'm pleased you agree and don't. Let me tackle the don't: I'm not suggesting there shouldn't be a user interface/admin tool, and there is no reason why that

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread LJ LongWing
Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:28 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications I have to disagree... The fact that everything is stored in the database is one of the biggest advantages to the Action Request System. I don't know why I would

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
ry 12, 2012 2:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Overlay and Applications Jose, I'm pleased you agree and don't. Let me tackle the don't: I'm not suggesting there shouldn't be a user interface/admin tool, and there is no reason why that can't remain. However,

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread John Sundberg
Disadvantage: Less ability to complain about ARS - which is sometimes fun. Other than that - I am stumped for a reason. (I would list the positives - but I have created large emails before on ARSList - and I run into the max email length problem -- I predict I would run into that again) -John

Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread John Baker
Jose, I'm pleased you agree and don't. Let me tackle the don't: I'm not suggesting there shouldn't be a user interface/admin tool, and there is no reason why that can't remain. However, the current approach of trying to put workflow into a database isn't working because functionality that was

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-12 Thread Coleman, Gavin
utacenter.com> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jose Huerta Sent: 12 January 2012 06:15 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications ** I agree and don't. If you change active links and filters by some scriptin

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-11 Thread Jose Huerta
I agree and don't. If you change active links and filters by some scripting language, then ARS won't be ARS anymore. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 00:02, John Baker wrote: > Hello, > > I do wonder when the time will come when base/overlay/etc are replaced > with the simple concept of a script. > > Co

Overlay and Applications

2012-01-11 Thread John Baker
Hello, I do wonder when the time will come when base/overlay/etc are replaced with the simple concept of a script. Converting existing workflow to a script is easy and much of the work has already been done, ie converting client side workflow to Javascript already exists in the Mid Tier. Writin

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-11 Thread Mueller, Doug
will be removed to modify the actual deployable application shell itself. Doug Mueller From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:45 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-11 Thread LJ LongWing
Ok…so are the OOTB ITSM Applications deployable? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Wirasat Siddiqi Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:32 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications ** That is what I am

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-11 Thread Easter, David
ded to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Wirasat Siddiqi Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:32 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-11 Thread Wirasat Siddiqi
RSLIST.ORG Date: 01/11/2012 04:24 PM Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications Sent by:"Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" ** David, I don?t often challenge your word because you are so good at what you do that you don?t often make mistakes?so if I?m wrong

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-11 Thread LJ LongWing
Behalf Of Easter, David Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:43 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Overlay and Applications ** If you did it at the app level, you probably had to switch to base mode to make the change you did. and if you make a change to a BMC object in base mode, then yes -

Re: Overlay and Applications

2012-01-11 Thread Easter, David
RSLIST.ORG Subject: Overlay and Applications ** There are a few OOB Deployable Applications that come with AR System 7.6.04 and we want to hide them from the object list. So I opened up the application (AR System Sample Application for example) and made this application hidden. But you can&#x

Overlay and Applications

2012-01-10 Thread Kemes, Lisa
There are a few OOB Deployable Applications that come with AR System 7.6.04 and we want to hide them from the object list. So I opened up the application (AR System Sample Application for example) and made this application hidden. But you can't overlay an application, so when we ever upgrade, t