I haven't specifically done this but since it is an Asset Management form
and not a CMDB form you should be fine. That is what they tell me anyways :)

Jason

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Andrew Hicox <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> Does anyone out there know of good reasons NOT to overlay AST:BaseElement?
>
> The short story is that I need to see 'LastScanDate' from
> BMC.CORE:BMC_BaseElement, along side my asset data.
>
> AST:BaseElement seems like the natural place to do this, since it joins
> AST:Attributes and BMC.CORE:BMC_BaseElement. All I should need to do is
> create an overlay and bring in 'LastScanDate' from BMC.CORE:BMC_BaseElement
> ... super easy.
>
> And in fact, I have done this on my dev box, and it SEEMS ok, but then I
> got to thinking about it ...
>
> In the past, I made the horrendous mistake of overlaying
> BMC.CORE:BMC_BaseElement, and THAT truely hosed my system on upgrade (even
> though I deleted the overlay prior to upgrading). I'd hate to stumble into
> that sort of minefield again.
>
> A quick search on communities didn't seem to turn up a whole lot, so I
> thought I'd ask here.
>
> Anyone have experience overlaying AST:BaseElement? Did it work out for
> you? Cause nightmares?
>
> Thanks eveyone
>
> -Andy
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