Well, I was hoping someone had quick answer, and I wouldn't have to write a 
really long message, but I guess not, so here goes:

Full Details: We have a process where users create a Change Request to request 
a Change Template be created. The CRQ ID of that change is then stored in the 
resulting template in the 'Originating CRQ' field. There's a 'View CRQ' button 
on the Template form which displays the 'Originating CRQ'. When a user uses 
that template to create a new Change Request, the 'Originating CRQ' number gets 
populated from the Template, and there's a button with the same fieldid as on 
the Template which fires the same workflow to view the CRQ. This works on the 
Template form, but not on the Infrastructure Change form.

Workflow on the Infrastructure Change form:
Field:Standard Change Name - has a menu of available Templates to select from. 
On Menu Choice we fire:
Active Link: Standard Change Select
                Action 1 - Set Fields from CHG:Template where  $Standard Change 
Name$ = 'Template Name'
(among other fields) Originating CRQ - > Originating CRQ (these have the same 
fieldID on both the Template and Infrastructure Change forms.)
At this point I can  see the 'Originating CRQ' displaying on the Change Form.

On Button click for field 'View CRQ' we fire:
Active Link: CHG:CRQ:STD-ViewOrig
                Action 1 - Message - "Originating CRQ = "$Originating CRQ$" 
(just added this for troubleshooting)
                Action 2 - Open Window; form CHG:Infrastructure Change; Window 
Type=Display; Display Type=Detail Only
                                Qualification: $Originating CRQ$ = 
'Infrastructure Change ID'

When this fires, the Message action displays 'Originating CRQ = (ARNOTE 
10000)', and of course since the AL thinks Originating CRQ is null (or blank?) 
it doesn't find a matching CRQ, and it opens a Change Request window with no 
data.

Thank you very much for your time. :-)

Thanks,
Ron Legters
ITIL Tools & Process Admin


From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:18 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Set Fields action oddness

**
Could you list the order of actions in your AL's and the number of AL's you are 
using to achieve what you are doing?

Joe



From: Ron Legters<mailto:ron.legt...@univarusa.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:14 PM
Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG>
Subject: Re: Set Fields action oddness

**
You're correct. The set fields happens by a menu choice on one AL. I can then 
see data populated in the fields it's setting. I have a button, and when I 
click it, it's supposed to open a CRQ whose ID was just set into the 
'Originating CRQ' field, which I can see has happened. I added a message action 
to the button AL to see why the CRQ wasn't opening, and the message tells me 
that 'Originating CRQ' is empty.

Thanks,
Ron Legters
ITIL Tools & Process Admin

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Brien Dieterle
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:41 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Set Fields action oddness

**
So you have two ALs-- one triggered by a menu choice and another via a button?  
The menu AL sets some fields.  The button AL cannot see these field values?  
You are adding the message action within the Button AL right, and not the same 
AL that is doing the set fields?  I ask because I don't think you can access 
the TR values of one action by another action within a single AL.

Brien

On 10/19/2010 3:10 PM, Joe Martin D'Souza wrote:
**
Ron,

You might have already checked this but just thought I'd remind you to if you 
haven't.

Check the order of when the message is triggered and when the set field action 
happens.. The message might be happening before the set fields..

Joe


From: Ron Legters<mailto:ron.legt...@univarusa.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:07 PM
Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG>
Subject: Set Fields action oddness

**
I'm stumped here. I've got a set fields action firing from a menu choice. It 
sets several fields on the current form from another form. The fields display 
just fine, they look like they've been set, but when I try and fire workflow 
using the new values, they behave as if they're empty.

Specifically, the 'set fields' puts a CRQ number in a field I've called 
'Originating CRQ', and there's a button to then display that CRQ. To 
troubleshoot, I added a message action, and the message says there's no value 
in 'Originating CRQ' (It says 'Originating CRQ = ')

What perfectly obvious thing am I missing here?

ARS 7.0.1
ITSM 7.2
Windows Server 2003
SQL 2005

Thank you,
Ron Legters
ITIL Tools & Process Administrator
UNIVAR Business Information Services
17425 NE Union Hill Road
Redmond, WA 98052  USA
+1 425 889 3952  Work
ron.legt...@univar.com<mailto:ron.legt...@univar.com>
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