Here is a piece of workflow that I have in my system today that uses TR and it 
should.

( 'RecordUploadStatus' = "Uploaded") AND ( 'Emp_EntryID' !=  $NULL$ ) AND ( 
'ClassNameID' !=  $NULL$ ) AND ( 'TR.lesson_status' =  "Completed" ) AND ( 
'DB.lesson_status' !=  "Completed" )

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On Behalf Of arslist
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:01 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Interview questions

I think questions about:

1) Field Ids
2) Workflow naming
3) How do you document what you have done
   (and this is a biggy, the WHY stuff was done is usually left out)

The responses to those 3 open ended questions tell you alot.

I had one senior person tell me recently that he didn't think there was any 
reason to choose your own field ids for a custom module (on a system with the 
ITSM6 suite).

Didn't get a chance to show him how much workflow I had been able to borrow 
from ITSM6 for the custom module by using the same field ids for the standard 
fields and then just copying the workflow with new naming (so changes for the 
ITSM module, or BMC patches would not affect the workflow that I borrowed).

... Daniel

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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
On Behalf Of Tim Widowfield
Sent: February 21, 2008 3:48 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Interview questions

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 we forget 
that code may be written once, but read hundreds of times (e.g., by beleaguered 
maintenance programmers at 3:00 AM).

I'd much rather argue over whether you should ever let the admin tool pick your 
field IDs and whether workflow names should be meaningful rather than over 
syntactic sugar.

--Tim

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