We had the same issue. We ended up making new "managed searches" on the console 
for assigned (not owned).  Certainly not ideal, but it seems to be an 
acceptable work around for my people

Anne Ramey

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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 1:18 PM
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Subject: Incident Management Console 7.6.04

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We have only had ITSM 7.6.04 in production for a few hours, and the universal 
assessment from our users has been unanimous; the new Incident Console (insert 
appropriate string of expletives here). The fact that it is now impossible to 
filter it on Role (Assignment versus Owner) as it was in 7.0 is a HUGE step 
backwards.  We opened an issue with BMC during testing, but you can imagine 
where that will go.

We already knew that this would happen from our test users' reactions, but it 
is really baffling the folks who skipped testing.  Someone from our desktop 
support (which is on a different campus) showed up at the helpdesk this 
morning, thinking that they needed to work on an Incident that was in fact only 
Owned by them; it was Assigned to the helpdesk and they were working it.

The helpdesk is the most heavily impacted, since they are the Owner Group for 
ALL students (~37,000 of them) and ANY Incident opened on behalf of a student, 
by any support group, and assigned to any support group (like the Library 
helpdesk), shows up in their console intermingled with the Incidents that are 
actually assigned to them.  It's more like they are overwhelming the incidents 
that are actually assigned to them, by 10 or more to one (it is currently 5 
assigned versus 59 owned).  Just wait until the semester starts!!

I did unhide the Assigned Group And Owner Group columns in the console before 
we went live, which helps a little because you can sort them, but it is still a 
mess.  The helpdesk manager spent several days during testing trying every 
possible filter available in the console, to no avail.  I guess I will be 
restoring the 7.0 Role selection function and it's workflow to the 7.6.04 
system sometime soon; very soon.

Christopher Strauss, Ph.D.
Call Tracking Administration Manager
University of North Texas Computing & IT Center
http://itsm.unt.edu/
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