Hi RJ –

First, this all worked in 8.1.02.  We are also going against custom forms, and 
the fields that we are using in the notifications typically have a permission 
of “Public:View”.

As far as sending to email addresses, the email addresses may or may not be 
defined to the User form.  We have our own custom people form which contains 
our profiles.  In that form is the email address.  If we are sending to a 
requester, that person is likely not a Remedy login user (read no User form 
record, etc.)  According to the BMC 9.1 documentation, this should be 
supported.  See:

https://docs.bmc.com/docs/ars91/en/creating-a-notify-action-609072091.html

User notification method email:
Email — The notification is sent to the specified recipients by email. You can 
identify BMC Remedy AR System server recipients by their BMC Remedy AR System 
user or group names, [or enter email addresses to notify any recipient inside 
or outside of BMC Remedy AR System server].

Thanks,

From: ARSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 12:39
To: ARSList
Subject: Re: 9.1.x Notify Action Delivery Mechanism

Mike,
Who is the recipient of the notification, is it a user name (value in login id 
field), or is it an email address?  If it's an email address, are there more 
than one users in the system with that email address.  If there are, if you 
send it to an email of a user with only one user account associated....does 
that user have permissions to the fields in question?

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Mike Galat 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi –

We are currently working toward upgrading from AR System 8.1.02 to 9.1.03/(or 
9.1.04).  Currently our lab server is running 9.1.03.  We are running into an 
issue with the Notify action in Filters.

The Notify Delivery Mechanism allows a few values:

1: Alert
2: Email
3: User Profile Default
99: Cross-Reference

For cross reference, you can then pass an integer value to define the delivery 
mechanism at runtime:

0: No delivery
1: Alert
2: Email
3: User Profile Default

By running some filter logging we have narrowed down the types of delivery 
mechanisms that succeed/fail.  It has been our experience with 9.1 that using:


•         User Profile Default (3) or Cross-Reference, with User Profile 
Default (99/dynamic 3) SUCCEEDS.

•         Email (2) or Cross-Reference, with Email  (99/dynamic 2) works FAILS.

What I mean by succeeds or fails is this:

When it succeeds, the email goes out, and all variables in the subject and text 
get expanded.  So suppose I send a notification for a ticket being opened User 
Profile Default, and the subject has
$Ticket #$ has been opened at $Create Date/Time$
The email’s subject will contain:
“PT-123456 - has been opened at - 1/1/2018 09:04:36 AM”

When it fails, the email goes out, and all variables in the subject and text DO 
NOT get expanded.  So suppose I send the same notification for a ticket being 
opened, using Email delivery mechanism, and the subject has
$Ticket #$ has been opened at $Create Date/Time$
The email’s subject will contain:
“  - has been opened at -  “

Has anyone else experienced this behavior.  If so, were you able to fix it, and 
how?  Note: changing the notify mechanism is not an option, as we use email in 
many filters.  All of this works just fine for us in Remedy 8.1.02

Thanks!

Mike Galat



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