I think the overhanging question is - Is BMC doing anything to possibly overcome this limitation so that the use of Overlays (as awesome as they are) is more seamless and not configuration depended ant.
Joe _____ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of laurent matheo Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Food for thought - overlays Indeed. There is a nice article about it: https://communities.bmc.com/communities/community/bmcdn/bmc_atrium_and_found ation_technologies/blog/2012/10/08/should-i-be-overlaying-the-cmdb-classes-a nd-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 <[email protected]> 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 -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 3:54 PM To: [email protected] 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 > <humor> > > Once you use "overlays" -- should you now think of your system as > > "overlay complicated"? > > </humor> > > -John > > > > -- > > *John Sundberg* > Kinetic Data, Inc. > "Your Business. Your Process." > > 651-556-0930 I [email protected] > www.kineticdata.com I community.kineticdata.com ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
