Hi,

This is working as expected.

As you mentioned, Multi-tenancy is based on either of those fields on an
Incident so as long as you have membership to one of the Group ID's you will
see the Incident.  

So if Support Group 1 has access to the Customer "common" Company, then they
would see all requests, same for Support Group 2, etc as tenancy is done at
the Company level.

 

To separate out this there is the concept of "Supporting Companies"
introduced I think around version 7.6 where you can have a Support Company
work a request (Assignment) without the need to give them full Company
access and they only see those requests - however I believe this uses the
Vendor fields to control access so can be somewhat tricky to setup.  You
could not have the "common" Company for the People though as the above still
applies.

 

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Kind Regards,

 

Carl Wilson

 

http://www.missingpiecessoftware.com/

 

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow
Sent: 27 February 2015 15:42
To: [email protected]
Subject: Yet another tenancy question...

 

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Hi all-

 

ARS 8.1.02, ITSM 8.1, etc - totally Remedy workflow question - architecture
doesn't matter.

 

We are doing a test configuration on our dev server trying to configure
multi-tenancy as follows:

 

1.) All People records belong to a company "MyCompany"

2.) Support users are in a company for their business unit, e.g. "Group 1,
Group 2, etc".  To be very clear, these are defined as separate companies -
they are NOT under "MyCompany".

3.) We do not have unrestricted access turned on for anyone. - so if an
incident is assigned to Group 1 we do not want Group 2 to be able to see it
at all.

 

The entire point of doing the above setup is to have one copy of each people
record shared among everyone - otherwise the only real option is to load a
separate copy of the people record for every defined company - and we're
talking about millions of records in that instance.  All of those would have
to get updated weekly in order to keep things up to date, so that's kind of
a non-starter.

 

Or we could customize multi-tenancy, which seems like path fraught with
peril...

 

The tenancy documentation I read says that tenancy and row level security is
based off of three things in 8.1: Customer Company for field 112, Support
Company on field 60900, and Vendor Assignee groups.  

 

I was under the impression that permissions were additive - so, if there was
a value in any of those three fields your People profile had to match all of
them for you to be able to see the incident.

 

I checked the permissions on Entry ID (Field 1) in HPD:Help Desk and they
match this as advertised (Unrestricted access membership is also one of the
permission groups for field one but no one is defined as unrestricted in my
test setup).  The problem is I don't think it's working right.  The value
that gets set for field 112 is the value of the customer's company, NOT the
assigned group's company.  Having the incident assigned to a group under a
separate company has no real effect on anything. I checked the data and the
field 60900 is filled in with the correct value of the Group entry that
matches the assigned support company.

 

Consequently, anyone can see all of the incidents, regardless of what
company they are in.

 

How do we go about getting this to work?  Is it supposed to work how we want
it, or is that a customization? All of the docs I read make me think it
should work this way.

 

I'm not even 100% sure anything is broken.  I opened an issue with support
too and I'm waiting to hear what they think.

 

 

William Rentfrow

[email protected]

Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25

Cell: 715-498-5056

 

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