And if you add fields to Base Element for every CI type? That seems like a lot of work to have to open every AST form and add the fields manually.
--- J.T. Shyman -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WARNING - CMDB2ASSET Simple-Easy, just right click on the form and add the fields you want from the joined form. Shoulda done it that way! Drew On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, J.T. Shyman wrote: > What is the alternative to using the CMDB2ASSET view? > > --- J.T. Shyman > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: WARNING - CMDB2ASSET > > One would think that they would have written the interface to ignore all > z fields by default, but that's just me... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: WARNING - CMDB2ASSET > > WARNING > > NEVER use the Update Asset UI button on the Schema Names form to invoke > CMDB2ASSET. > > You may have only added a couple of attributes to a particular class and > > of course now you want to populate the Asset forms. CMDB2ASSET will > synch > up ALL the core fields, not just the one or two that you added...and you > > don't want what appears to be thousands of zTemp fields on your Asset > forms. > > I was going to type something about how BMC has managed to waste > some more of my time by creating yet one more ansinine interface, but > then > I decided against it. > > Drew > Tulsa > > ________________________________________________________________________ > _______ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"

