Thank you for starting the new topic, Matt. Before we begin develop a standard, let's address questions regarding the relevance of data to be captured in the database id.
Assumptions Given the range of database ids is 600,000,000 to 999,999,999: The first digit may contain the numerals 6-9. The other 8 digits may contain numerals 0-9. 2-3 digits should be allowed for sequential numbering. They are relevant to the form, other fields on the form, and duplication across forms. What data do we want to convey? I think these are the most important pieces of data, but I might be wrong. 1. Application (Asset, Request Mgt, Change, Archive, Custom) 2. Field Usage (i.e. a zTmp field has vastly different usage than a Request ID field. Some forms can hold 3 or 4 Request IDs, and they ought to be noted.) 3. Is it useful to denote fields used on multiple forms? What data do we NOT want to preserve? 1. I don't believe that the creator of the information is particularly important for shared files. Do we want to waste precious digits when authoring rights can be captured in Help Text or Change Log? 2. Same for Field Type. That data is included in the definition file. I don't care whether it's a character field or an enumerated field, but I'd like to know the impact of changing the field. How are we able to convey that information? How do we want to organize the information in our allotted 9 digits? Jennifer Meyer Remedy Technical Support Specialist State of North Carolina Office of Information Technology Services Service Delivery Division ITSM & ITAM Services Office: 919-754-6543 ITS Service Desk: 919-754-6000 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://its.state.nc.us<http://its.state.nc.us/> E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties only by an authorized State Official. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Laurenceau Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 6:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: "Outside of Reserved Range" warning? ** I have commitment from a manager in BMC Engineering to share ideas (he actually proposed his help while looking at ARSList - great!) I have drafted something to begin with<https://communities.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-16743>. Please check it out, and share your thoughts. * Add a Comment if you want to send a heads-up * Edit the Doc directly (yes, wikipedia-style), should you be able to make things progress directly (for example, I asked questions where some of you may also have the answers) This is a great Use Case showing how powerful the Remedy Developer Community is, I'm really excited by this 1st topic. Take care, Matt Senior Community Ambassador, BMC Communities Follow me @Matt_L<https://twitter.com/matt_L> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Jason Miller <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ** Joe, you nailed it (although I did get Jennifer's joke too). There are so many communities where you can download code/functions/scripts/etc for other languages but there isn't one for Remedy; well it is there just not actively used in this manner. There are a few apps/utilities on the BMCDN but not as many as I think a lot of us would like to see. Now to be perfectly honest, I have a few utilities that I have been meaning to post to the BMCDN for a few years now (the data export one is sad without runmacro.exe). We have seen arswiki.org<http://arswiki.org> come and go. Axton provided the site for years and there just wasn't enough involvement to keep the site up (I am guilty too). I am fearful that the same will happen with ARInside. I see John making updates when he has some time but can it survive as a one or two person project? Personally I would love to help out and even installed a compiler a while back to work on my limited C++ skills. Years, work, new laptop without compiler, and grade school aged kids later I still have not contributed any code to the project. Don't get me wrong, always having sanctioned/paid work (and a family) that pushes aside community projects is not a bad problem to have. * Is it that we are all just too busy? * Is it a ratio thing in that we are such a small community compared to Java/C++/HTML/PowerShell/<insert platform of choice> communities that we just don't have enough people to contribute a decent volume of projects? * Is it that we cannot share what we build because it was done on somebody else's time/system? * Would it help if there was an AR MSDN like subscription that we have been asking for for a few years? * I think this is related to the somebody else's time/system question. I know I can't afford to develop AR Applications without my employer's resources (servers, support contract). * Now with today's virtualization, hosted technologies and the Suite Stack Installer it would be easier than ever to provide this resource. Maybe a downloadable VM appliance (ADDM anybody?). I understand there are licensing issues with distributing other companies' software (Windows/MS SQL/Oracle). Maybe it is time for a MySQL version of AR? :) Hopefully now that we have a Community Ambassador we can get some of these things moving. ;-) Jason _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com<http://www.wwrug.com> ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ -- ~ Matt Laurenceau, BMC Software Senior Community Ambassador, BMC Communities Follow me at @Matt_L<https://twitter.com/matt_L> Skype: matt.laurenceau _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
