Re: Update Record and not change Modify Date

2009-10-09 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, If not mapped, modify-/create-date will be set to $TIMESTAMP$ if you are replacing or creating new records. If you are updating old record with new data, the timestamps will be left intact. All system/required core-fields will need a value when stored in the database. On updates, they

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, In theory, it should be possible to leverege the modify-time of the server objects to do an incremental update of the previous run. All ARGetList*()-functions has a last-modify-date parameter, to allow retrieval of changed objects. You will also need to remove any objects that has been

ERROR: java.lang.NullPointerException

2009-10-09 Thread mala b
Hi, When i try to open a form in web it's throwing the following error. please help to overcome this. ARS version 7.1, midtier 7.1 Error. The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. java.lang.NullPointerException at

Re: Email Forms?

2009-10-09 Thread Brittain, Mark
There may be a couple of reasons for this. At least under version 6.3 there is the Email Messages form but then there are three forms, association, attachment, attachment join, to handle the attachments. I have mail pushed to a custom form and then gather the attachments into the attachment

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I hope it would not end up being the next version of the RemedyWeb. That was a fiasco! Guillaume -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of patrick zandi Sent: Thu 10/08/09 10:49 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: End of Life for BMC(R)

Re: Mid-tier and Scanners

2009-10-09 Thread Bill Myers
The application is for issuing and receiving product orders. The current design has a control panel that the user initially accesses. On the control panel are three buttons. One button takes the user to another form for issuing orders. One button takes the user to a form for receiving orders.

Re: Mid-tier and Scanners

2009-10-09 Thread Kelly Logan
Have you considered using web services? My first guess is that you are having some compatibility issues between the browser, OS and Mid-Tier. By consuming a web service, your scanner could have a more direct and compatible link to the Remedy server. Kelly Logan Senior Remedy Developer

Approval console ARS 7.5

2009-10-09 Thread Patrick St-Pierre
Hi List, can you teel me if im wrong, but im just migrated my dev box to 7.5 and the approval console seems to be very poor, we are not able to open the change request from that console of view detail stuff ... some new feature seems to not works fine. It is only for me or you think the same

Re: Email Template Question

2009-10-09 Thread Kelly Logan
Hello Mark, If I remember correctly, standard text email templates process line by line. For a value that spans multiple lines, you can encase the value with bracketed dollar signs like this: [$$ value here $$]. Or to use your example: Symptom Description !536870930!: [$$This is a

Re: Mid-tier and Scanners

2009-10-09 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Also ... What version of IE is running on that WinCE 5.01 platform? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Bill Myers Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:52 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Mid-tier and Scanners The application is for

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread David Charters
All, I think the product has to move forward and away from a thick client. In think in this market space with HP, People Software etc.. the idea of a thick client is becoming out dated. I have even had customers ask me why in the world BMC would have a thick client. A thick Client requires a

Re: Update Record and not change Modify Date

2009-10-09 Thread LJ Longwing
Good to know :) -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 1:04 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Update Record and not change Modify Date Hi, If not mapped,

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread LJ Longwing
Hey Misi, Before I got into the code, I wondered the exact same thing, unfortunately the ability to do that is limited with the current design. As ARInside grabs objects from the server (in the order it grabs them, which can be different each time), it assigns an 'internal id' to the object, and

arserver will not start unless I log in as Admin on server

2009-10-09 Thread Ibrahim Akar
Environment RD box. ARS 7.5 patch 2 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 32 bit SQL Server 2008 Enterprise edition AR System Service Logs on as local System Account - I have also set it to logon as Administrator account (same result) email service and flash boards start fine. For some reason I am

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread strauss
I beg to differ. RemedyWeb was the ONLY solution our Macintosh users had that actually worked for several years! After Remedy discontinued the native Mac client (version 3.2) and we moved to 4.x in 1999, there was basically NO viable Mac support until 7.1.00.002 in 2008 (when Safari actually

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread patrick zandi
I remember using that as well, we had macs.. and it worked for them nicely.. you had to have the right version of java.. I like remedyweb more than midtier -- in that day.. We Rolled out remedyweb fine, but did not even roll out mid-tier.. cause it stunk. Midtier today is light years different..

Notifying with Join form info when the outer join right-hand side is created.

2009-10-09 Thread Reiser, John J
Hello Listers, ARS7.1.00 Patch 004 MS SQL Server 2005 I have two forms that are joined (outer join) and I want to send a notification with .ARTask from the Join form. Example: Form A has a bunch of records. Form B gets a record created and is connected to Form A's record by the value selected

Licensing questions....

2009-10-09 Thread Copits . Richard
I'm trying to better understand how licenses work and have gone through the chapter in the configuration guide on licenses but didn't find/may have missed(?) this information... I've been told that when a user acquires a license - either fixed or floating - the time clock starts I've also

Re: Mid-tier and Scanners

2009-10-09 Thread Gidd Calden
Bill, Can you change the scanner to throw a CR after the Bar Code scan? Where is Phil Bautista ... this is his specialty !! Regards...Gidd _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Bill Myers Sent: Friday, October 09,

Re: Licensing questions....

2009-10-09 Thread Rick Cook
Richard, Let me see if I can fill in the gaps for you. The timeout is the amount of time that a user will keep a floating license without performing any activity. If the user is active, the timeout period is reset at each action that refreshes it (that depends on the version). If the user

Re: Licensing questions....

2009-10-09 Thread LJ Longwing
-Can of worms- ok...now it's openhere is the skinny on it...forget about Fixed, those are assigned to an individual and not usable by anyone other than them, so you don't need to worry about when they are in use or not. Floating: * On the timeout tab of server configuration there is a

Re: Licensing questions....

2009-10-09 Thread Nall, Roger
You will probably get several different answers to this question. So here is the first one: * If you are assigned a Fixed license there is no time limit on how long that license is yours. * If you are assigned a Floating license this is where the 'time limit' comes into play.

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
One big problem I have with using a browser for everything is it is a huge memory hog. In the User tool with a form open and a set of records displayed the memory used is 12,432K. With IE and the same form and records it is 35,384K. With Firefox and the same form and records it is 31,868K.

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread Jason Miller
By the time the User Tool is gone a standard PC will have 8gb of ram :) On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Grooms, Frederick W frederick.w.gro...@xo.com wrote: ** One big problem I have with using a browser for everything is it is a huge memory hog. In the User tool with a form open and a

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread Jason Miller
On the subject of keeping a db... What is the feasibility of storing the data in a db vs. +100k html files at over 1gb of disk space (and this isn't even ITSM 7)? I would think if the object id's are maintain in a db then the data could be normalized and alleviate all of the data that is now

Re: Mid-tier and Scanners

2009-10-09 Thread Bill Myers
I'm not 100% sure. I can only find a reference to IE Mobile without a version. We are going to try and upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 to see if that makes a difference. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent:

Re: Mid-tier and Scanners

2009-10-09 Thread Bill Myers
We've done that. It works fine in our non-midtier applications. We may be contacting Phil, it would be much easier to turn it over to him. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Gidd Calden Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 11:02 AM To:

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I think your environment was particular...because you had Macs. I mean back then in the ARS 4.0 timeframe, there was three clients: AR Web, Remedy Web and the User tool. The users with PCs would prefer the User Tool instead of the Remedy Web, and the AR Web was better for simpler tasks like

[Fwd: ARSmarts v2.1 : batch definition export, search in XRef, and much more......]

2009-10-09 Thread support
Hi there, Forgot to mention that we will have a booth at the WWRUG in Las Vegas. Don't forget to come and visit us. Kaïs Original Message Subject: ARSmarts v2.1 : batch definition export, search in XRef, and much more.. Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:22:18 +0200 From:

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread LJ Longwing
Well Jason, many hands make light work :)so I encourage you to dust off your C++ skills and join us on a worthy journeythe DB I was referring to was more of a flat file kinda thing that wouldn't need an enginebut hmmm...what about it having an option of being a Remedy app that stored

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread LJ Longwing
we had a web programmer back in the day that wrote a custom front end for ARWeb and basically used it as a web api to do what he needed...I like MidTier better these days _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault

Support Groups in one ITSM Module

2009-10-09 Thread Pargeter, Christie :CO IS
Hi All - We have some support teams that share their incident queues but not their change queues. Is it possible to have a support team only in Change Problem but not in Incident? We have setup our assignment mappings to the correct shared queue but people are manually assigning to the

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I am not saying that I miss the AR Web client. That's just what was available ten years agoprobably nowadays your programmer would use web services. Mid-Tier 7.5 is way better than anything else that has existed, and there are improvements with each Mid-Tier version. The first version of

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread Howard Richter
I have one question, what about macros? Howard On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM, strauss stra...@unt.edu wrote: ** I beg to differ. RemedyWeb was the ONLY solution our Macintosh users had that actually worked for several years! After Remedy discontinued the native Mac client (version 3.2)

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread Carey Matthew Black
LJ, Which actually brings to the surface the question of: What happens when an object name changes?. My guess is that the object would look like a new object and there really would be no good way to tie it back to the previously used internal id. Now if you were to use the AR_OPROP_GUID value

Re: Support Groups in one ITSM Module

2009-10-09 Thread strauss
The only way I know to restrict queues to certain groups is with multi-tenancy, and if you haven't already implemented it you probably cannot change it now - it's a sea change for the entire application. If your non-shared queue only exists in one company, no support staff homed in other

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread Jason Miller
It would be more like pressure wash my C++ skills, I took one class years ago. But what a great way to get back into it? I think there are benefits to both having a db engine and the static files. Ultimately being able to do both would be great. You could still give customers documentation with

Re: ITSM 7.5 Install Order

2009-10-09 Thread Sokol, Brian
Thanks Joe. Brian From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Joe DeSouza Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 4:49 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ITSM 7.5 Install Order ** Atrium first, ITSM apps that

Re: Support Groups in one ITSM Module

2009-10-09 Thread Pargeter, Christie :CO IS
I did setup the assignment mapping records the way we want. But our people like to manually assign and are picking the non-shared queues and putting in critical tickets that the teams are not seeing since only the shared queue is the one that pages. From: Action

Re: Support Groups in one ITSM Module

2009-10-09 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Christie, We're experiencing a similar issue and off the top of my head, I've been thinking about modifying the search menus that are used in those modules to exclude the support group that I don't want or vice versa. I haven't tested it yet though and it would be interesting to see what others

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread Easter, David
The majority of the time, macros are used to run reports - and that functionality is currently duplicated on the web client through the introduction of Quick Reports in AR System 7.5.00: Quick reports in a browser With the My Reports toolbar button, you can save reports from searches you

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread Juan Ingles
LJ, What are the supported environments? I can't get it to run on my server -- Windows 2003 R2 SP2 x64. I tried both the _68 and _69 build. I get: This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem. Also, I

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread Howard Richter
David, In my world a number of my customer use it to monitor issue, such as for different teams or employees. I think the loss of that function will be felt. Howard On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Easter, David david_eas...@bmc.com wrote: ** The majority of the time, macros are used to run

Re: End of Life for BMC(R) Remedy(R) User (Windows-based client)

2009-10-09 Thread Shellman, David
Dave, I'm sorry but the answer to more complicated macros is not an acceptable answer. I would hope that by the time the desktop client does reach end of life, there is a better answer than this. Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread LJ Longwing
Hmmm...I don't like the idea of ARInside 'updating' the remedy server in ANY way. I think that in the case of us starting to track this stuff via some kind of db, we would likely just consider a rename of an object a delete and recreation. This would of course need to include anything that

Install SRM 2.2

2009-10-09 Thread Hellyson
Hello all, I would like to install SRM 2.2 in the ITSM 7.1, but i would like to know if I install, what happen with the data of the ITSM Request Console, I have almost 3 thousand data there, because by the Installation manual, i saw that when I install the SRM, replace the forms of the ITSM

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread LJ Longwing
Well...the only class I've ever taken for C was 'Problem Solving Concepts for C++'and I'm still involved...so your skills are likely stronger than mine...:) The only issue with a single file with bookmarks is that if even a single field changes in a form, you rewrite the entire thing?but

Re: ARInside 3.0 Beta

2009-10-09 Thread LJ Longwing
Well, 'windows' is the generic answer at the moment...it's a 32 bit app, and I don't know much about running 32 bit apps on 64 bit windows servers...so you may be able to help out with that informationI seem to remember that Windows needed 32 bit apps to be in a special dir for the OS to

BMC Remedy AR System 7.5 Certification

2009-10-09 Thread Remedy Muse
Anybody taken BMC Remedy AR System 7.5 Certification? I'll be taking the 2nd course and won't need to take the 1st course. This certification used to be called Remedy Skilled Profession certification RSP.? It had 3 courses. but they changed the name and down to 2 courses. What's everybody

Remedy Single Sign ON

2009-10-09 Thread General Information
Dear listers, The lack of authentication to the system caused by incorrect entering a user name or a password and revoked access are a reason for constant employees frustration. The users who have not logged in successfully to the system are constantly sending emails to the IT help desk asking

Re: Install SRM 2.2

2009-10-09 Thread Konrad Banasiak
Hi, When you will install SRM 2.2, The requeter console will be not delete, but installer will add active link on action on open with message Requester console is disabled, please use the SRM Console. Cheers Konrad Hellyson pisze: ** Hello all, I would like to install SRM 2.2 in the ITSM

Re: AD Remedy Single Sign ON

2009-10-09 Thread Shellman, David
Please let us know up front that you're trying to sell a product. Dave - dave.shell...@tycoelectronics.com (Wireless) - Original Message - From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri

Re: Notifying with Join form info when the outer join right-hand side is created.

2009-10-09 Thread Jason Miller
Hi John, B will not inform A_B when a record is created. We recently had a similar scenario with a join of order details and line items. We wanted an email from the join to be sent when Help Desk ticket for a line item was completed. We did just what you mention. When the 'Status' is changed

Re: Approval console ARS 7.5

2009-10-09 Thread Jason Miller
Are you using the 7.5 WUT or 7.5 Mid-Tier? They are using some of the new 7.5 features that will not display in the 7.1 client. When you are seeing the 7.5 AP console correctly it is kind of pretty. Jason On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Patrick St-Pierre patrick.st-pie...@dsf.cawrote: ** Hi

Real to Integer Comparisons

2009-10-09 Thread Alexander Straph
Hi. The client has a set up where they have a field called SequenceNumber. This field is a decimal number set to a precision of 2. The reason for this is because they have subsequence numbers, that is it goes like 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4. The entries are being grouped by whole number, that

Re: Email Forms?

2009-10-09 Thread Duncan McFarlane
Thanks all _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Brittain, Mark Sent: October 9, 2009 9:19 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Email Forms? There may be a couple of reasons for this. At least under version 6.3 there is

Dexter Lewis is out of the office.

2009-10-09 Thread Dexter Lewis
I will be out of the office starting 10/09/2009 and will not return until 10/19/2009. I will return to the office on Monday October 19. During my absence I will periodically be checking my mail but if the issue requires immediate attention or can not wait until my return contact the Global