Rick, sorry for the late reply. I don't believe the Asset Lifecycle Status is used with the Bulk Inventory form, although if you've found out contrary, I'd like to know. The In Inventory status is used in conjunction with workflow on other Asset forms to launch the Inventory location dialog. You do have to watch for conflict with AR workflow that fires on the status field regarding In Inventory.
Bulk Inventory, conceptually works differently than the rest of the CMDB in that instead of tracking per Instance, you're tracking in Bulk - by definition, bulk inventory that has a known location has a Quantity attached to it that indicates it's viability of existence instead of the status field that indicates it's lifecycle. In all honesty, the Manage Asset Inventory lifecycle, while still subject to an Asset Lifecycle, doesn't really work the same in the tool as the other Instance type CIs. Janie On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Rick Westbrock <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > Hi all, we are using a custom application to interface with our CMDB (ARS > 7.1.0, ITSM 7.0.3) including management of bulk inventory items. Since the > AST:BulkInventory form does not expose the Asset Lifecycle Status field > (which I will refer to as just Status from here on out) is anyone familiar > with how that field might be used in workflow? > > > > We don't do requisitions or purchases via ITSM, we had been manually > adding CI records via the CMDB interface up until recently. When doing so > the BMC workflow sets the Status to Ordered and it will stay that way as > long as that record exists. When I started importing bulk inventory assets > into AST:BulkInventory via CSV files I was mapping Status = In Inventory. > > > > I am curious as to whether the ITSM code even looks at the Status value > for bulk inventory assets so any input would be greatly appreciated. I am > trying to use ARInside to suss out this information but thought that there > might be a few experts in the audience who might have some valuable > information to share. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Rick > > *_________________________* > > > *Rick Westbrock *AppOps Engineer | IT Department > 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. > > > _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"
