I agree.. I remember discussing this exact same point a few months or perhaps a year ago. Its weird to make a name of a workflow to be used as ‘code’ to do a specific task.
But while it is what it is, it would be nice to have a list of such ‘special naming conventions’.. Joe From: John Sundberg Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 1:52 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Filter names question - `! ** I think the convention should be "REMOVED"… Add a flag on Filter -- Run Immediately… Approx 10 years ago -- I was brought into a big telco project to "fix it"…. After a new developer went through and renamed filters/actlinks to meet a nicer naming convention… (to work with BMCs new filtering based on COLON) Try -- troubleshooting that…. Old name: mtc_FindIPAddress`! New name: MTC:IP:Find_Address (in a haystack of 2000 filters -- that all got renamed) (OK - I am exaggerating the situation a bit -- but -- either way -- my opinion it is TOO WEIRD to add something to a name - and now it works different) -John On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Joe Martin D'Souza <[email protected]> wrote: We are allowed that on Friday :-) This is an interesting thread though.. It would be nice to have a full list of all these small conventions that could affect functionality.. Imagine fat fingering the keyboard (although that’s as likely to happen anytime too soon as as having a snow storm in the middle east) and naming a piece of workflow with these characters and have functionality affected, and not have a clue why.. Joe -----Original Message----- From: LJ LongWing Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 12:30 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Filter names question - `! Ah...yes, I'll agree that * in a workflow doesn't indicate anything then :)....mis-read the darn post :) -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 10:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Filter names question - `! Dee was asking about the * in the beginning of workflow names.. That in front of workflow is more the work of a developer customizing an OTB app.. While I was aware that the * at the end of field names was just a visual thing for bold fields, I wasn't aware it was because of the section 508 compliance standards.. That’s a good to know and thanks for that info. -----Original Message----- From: LJ LongWing Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 12:06 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Filter names question - `! The * at the beginning of the field name is a Section 508 compliance thing...it designates to visually impaired people that the field is required http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/cio/s508/03web.htm search for the word 'asterisk' -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dee Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 9:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Filter names question - `! Thanks Joe, Like John in this post and Sam in "Suggestions" post last week, are these commands/tricks written any where and are there more? Looking at System Forms/Workflow, do these mean anything or just name conventions? 1. (*)At the begin of Name of workflow, ex. (*TS-SI 100 Upper Server) 2. (~!) At the end of name of workflow, ex. (AP:Sig-RecentHistoryDate~!) 3. (`1)At the end of name of workflow, ex. (XR:GetSchemaWorkflow1`1) -- _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" -- John Sundberg Kinetic Data, Inc. "Your Business. Your Process." WWRUG10 Best Customer Service/Support Award WWRUG09 Innovator of the Year Award 651-556-0930 I [email protected] www.kineticdata.com I community.kineticdata.com _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
