I don't know how the recent RIF will help the product development cycle run any faster or better. Would love to hear someone at BMC contradict me.
Rick On Apr 9, 2013 2:31 PM, "Joe D'Souza" <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > 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_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 <[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_ _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"
