Indeed. There is a nice article about it:
https://communities.bmc.com/communities/community/bmcdn/bmc_atrium_and_foundation_technologies/blog/2012/10/08/should-i-be-overlaying-the-cmdb-classes-and-attributes-so-that-we-can-use-it-in-the-asset-views
https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=content&id=S:KA380649
Actually when you overlay BMC.CORE forms there are some times where you can't add new attributes:
https://communities.bmc.com/communities/message/304844#304844
And I experienced first hand that overlaying one cmdb filter made an upgrade from 7.6.04 to 8.0 fail :p
https://communities.bmc.com/communities/community/bmcdn/bmc_atrium_and_foundation_technologies/blog/2012/10/08/should-i-be-overlaying-the-cmdb-classes-and-attributes-so-that-we-can-use-it-in-the-asset-views
https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=content&id=S:KA380649
Actually when you overlay BMC.CORE forms there are some times where you can't add new attributes:
https://communities.bmc.com/communities/message/304844#304844
And I experienced first hand that overlaying one cmdb filter made an upgrade from 7.6.04 to 8.0 fail :p
On 09 Apr, 2013,at 11:22 PM, Joe D'Souza <jdso...@shyle.net> wrote:
I recall hearing somewhere (I think from Lenny Warren last RUG) that
overlays are not supported when using CMDB.
In other words customization of CMDB is not supported while using overlays.
Cheers
Joe
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Subject: Re: Food for thought - overlays
Hi,
What I can tell you is that the cmdbdriver thinks so when trying to upgrade
overlaid core forms in the CMDB. This happens even if the overlay only
contains a couple of display-only-fields in a custom view containing only
said
fields.
The result is a kind of overlay mash not liked by any of the BMC tools ;-)
Humor?
Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se
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> "overlay complicated"?
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