Cool :-)..

 

Hopefully it doesn't touch the Last Modified By and Last Modified
information on tickets? If it does it might be a better idea to write a SQL
job to do the same thing..

 

Joe

 

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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
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Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 5:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Company Name change in ITSM 7.6.04...

 

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This was delayed in my spam box.  Thanks for confirming it is available in
7.6.04.

 

Jason

 

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Ars Lister <[email protected]> wrote:

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I second on that Joe.  The only way to successfully update Company or Site
info in ITSM 7.6.04 is with the Data Management tool which has the Data
Wizard mentioned by Mr. Miller.  It will modify whatever company names you
want to change in all the ITSM forms and the Atrium CMDB where appropriate
with one action.  It takes a while, but it gets it done. 

Good luck with that!

 

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 4:07 PM, Jason Miller <[email protected]>
wrote:

 

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Hey Joe,

 

Have you looked at the Data Wizard?

 

https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/itsm80/Overview+of+the+data+wizard

 

Here are some screenshots I took from our Dev (has an orange skin) that
shows you can rename a company, the forms it touches and the record counts
in each form.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fNwkJPuAdzGmUngGk5GNaIS7RuixSNylIUBogaUn
65E/pub

 

Jason

 

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Joe D'Souza <[email protected]> wrote:

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Has anyone attempted this successfully? If so do you have a whole list of
places where this name might be needed to be changed?

 

I have noticed that the design of the ITSM application is not very
consistent about where it uses the Request ID (Entry ID or Field 1) or
instanceID or some GUID to relate such data and where it uses something like
Company Name itself to relate data. For e.g. in the SIT:Site Company
Association table, it looks like the Company Name is used in the
relationship, while in some other places either the Company Entry ID or the
instanceId is used.

 

This could mean that a name change could possibly break a few data
relationships, if the name change doesn't propagate to all the forms that
use the name in the relationship..

 

Does anyone have a complete list of forms where this relationship might be
broken in the event one needs to change the Company Name? I'm suspecting
there is no OTB workflow, which would propagate this change to all forms
that might need to reflect this change.

 

 

 

A simple SQL search show 737 forms that have data fields that Company in the
field name where the field is a data field. 

 

SQL> select count(*) from aradmin.arschema where schemaid in (select
schemaid from aradmin.field where fieldname = 'Company' and fieldtype = 1)
order by name;

       458

 

SQL> 

SQL> select count(*) from aradmin.arschema where schemaid in (select
schemaid from aradmin.field where fieldname like '%Company%' and fieldtype =
1) order by name;

       737

 

 

Regards

 

Joe

 

PS: Does ITSM 8.x handle name change of a company better than 7.6.04??

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