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Here is what I have.   Note: I am on Sun so adjust as needed.
 
I have a script on the server that creates an ARTask file
#! /usr/bin/ksh
#  Parameters  1-Server  2-Form_Name  3-Ticket_ID
#
#  PPID = This shells unique Process ID
ofile=/usr/tmp/Attachment${PPID}.ARTask
#
echo "[Shortcut]" > $ofile
echo "Name =" ${2} >> $ofile
echo "Type = 0" >> $ofile
echo "Server =" ${1} >> $ofile
echo "Join = 0" >> $ofile
echo "Ticket =" ${3} >> $ofile
echo $ofile
exit 0
I have a Filter that does the following
 
Action 1:  Set Fields
   Set: zTempTxt1 = $PROCESS$ /usr/ar/make_ARTask_file.ksh $SERVER$ "IT Tickets" $Related Ticket ID$
 
Action 2:  Set Fields
   Set: zShortcutAttachment = $PROCESS$ PERFORM-ACTION-ADD-ATTACHMENT 540000138 "$zTempTxt1$"
 
Action 3:  Run Process
   Command Line:  rm -f $zTempTxt1$
 
At this point I have the ticket shortcut as an attachment.  I modified the Email Messages form (adding a Display Only attachment for Ticket Shortcut and workflow to push it to the Email Attachments form on submit of a message).  I then just push my message to the Email Messages form.
 
 
Fred


-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Reiser, John J
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Escalation reminder every X hours

Fred,

How would you add a shortcut to the ticket using that as an escalation method?
Does your system send the shortcut of the "Pending Notification" and then use an On Open AL to open the real ticket?
When you delete it how do you deal with the technicians who keep the shortcut as a "quick Link" to their last ticket?
Never mind that last question. If they can't figure it out I don't want them working on my PC problems;^>

Thanks,


John J. Reiser
Software Development Analyst
Remedy Administrator/Developer
Lockheed Martin - MS2
The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. - paraphrased by me


-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Escalation reminder every X hours

We do something similar.   What we do is on Create of a ticket we push
to a table called "Pending Notifications".  On any Modify of the ticket we first delete any related records from the Pending Notifications (This allows us to create any additional ones we need).

We run the Escalation against the Pending Notifications table to send the emails.  This way the Ticket is not touched so the Last Modify info is left alone.

Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Reiser, John J
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Escalation reminder every X hours

Hello Listers,

Congrats to the ARSlist Award winners.

ARS 6.3
MS SQL Server 2000
Midtier 6.3
Homegrown Helpdesk forms

Just as a sanity check I thought I would ask if anyone has a good process for "send out an email notification every X hours if the ticket is still at a status of New"?

After the obvious failure of setting the escalation time to 2 Hrs ( Ticket entered 1 second after Esc doesn't go out in email for 3 hrs 59 minutes 59 seconds) I decided to put a field on the HD form that will be populated with create time + 2 hrs.
The escalation will run every 5 or 10 minutes and check the escalation time stored on create. It will increase the escalation time by 2 hours if the status is still New.
The Run If will be 'ESC_Time' < $TIMESTAMP$ AND Status = "New"

The reason I am running this by the List is that I wanted to know if there was a slicker way to do this.
Anyone? . . . Bueller? Bueller?

Thanks,
John J. Reiser
Software Development Analyst
Remedy Administrator/Developer
Lockheed Martin - MS2
The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. - paraphrased by me

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