Re: Discovery Tools

2008-09-16 Thread Thad K Esser
Gordon, We have just gone through this exercise. We did a couple of proof of concepts with other vendor products as well as BMC's Discovery tools. In general, BMC's Discovery was the best fit for us, but the real clincher was ease of integration with the Atrium CMDB. If we were to go with

Re: Help parsing a string in a set fields

2008-09-12 Thread Thad K Esser
a lot This was what I was trying to figure out from workflow perspective(only 1 active link and no new fields)...however...lol..it will take me a good amount of time to understand this. Thanks again.. Regards, Chintan. --- On Fri, 9/12/08, Thad K Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Thad K

Re: AR System and the DSL.... Is it just me?

2008-09-12 Thread Thad K Esser
Its not just you. I had asked the same thing in a CMDB class and the response was that the DSL data comes from a Third Party service, and so most BMC software isn't in it. You'd think they'd take the time to add it in. This goes back to my CMDB question from a few days ago. It would be

Modeling ITSM 7.0.3 in the CMDB 2.1 CDM

2008-09-10 Thread Thad K Esser
Hi, I've been to CMDB training and am still wrapping my head around which classes get used for what. Some are obvious, some not so much. I figured it would be good to see how something I'm familiar with (i.e. Remedy) would fit into the common data model. Has anyone seen any white papers or

Re: Mid Tier Will Not Display new Fields

2008-09-05 Thread Thad K Esser
Have you checked the column widths or the Auto-fit setting for your table? Maybe they are there, but you can't see them because they don't fit in the space given for the table. (Presumably you didn't accidentally make those columns hidden.) Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your

Re: X-Headers

2008-09-02 Thread Thad K Esser
Mark, Use the Organization field in emails to put whatever you want into the header. Start the field with a carriage return, so the header starts a new line, and then add whatever text you want (Sensitivity: Company-Confidential in your case). Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your

Re: Incident Management Console Assigned Work results table and two sets of colors

2008-08-28 Thread Thad K Esser
One thing I do when the results color needs to be based on multiple conditions or situations, is to create an enumerated field (Results List Color) that has the list of colors I'll want and use that field as the basis for the Results List colors (defaults to black). Then create filters for

Re: Unqualified Searches in Very Large Enterprises -- Thoughts, Please

2008-07-22 Thread Thad K Esser
I think you want to use AND, not OR. If they are all null, then throw the error. You can take care of the Advanced Search Bar by adding: ... AND '1005' = $NULL$ to your qualification. 1005 is the field id for the Advanced Search bar. I just tested it on a basic form (6.3 server) and it seems

Re: Lines of code in Remedy?

2008-07-09 Thread Thad K Esser
Fortunately, I've never been asked this so I might be off here, but wouldn't the # of lines in a def file be heavily influenced by any images (background/button/etc) on the form, making that number particularly inaccurate? My guess would be to provide the number of workflow objects along with

Re: Baffling Email Problem

2008-07-09 Thread Thad K Esser
Did you change your Default Outgoing Mailbox setting for the mailbox you are trying to use? Is it enabled (although that wouldn't keep the messages from getting to Messages form) Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Kaiser

Re: Walking table, reading and setting hi-liting rows

2008-06-18 Thread Thad K Esser
Dwayne, Your original post said you are on version 7.1. I haven't played with it much, but page 368 of the Form and Application Objects manual says you can change the colors of rows in tables based on selection fields. If you combined that with Fred's suggestion below, you could set the

Re: New/Search Field Difference

2008-06-17 Thread Thad K Esser
Hi, Its a user tool setting. Select Tools Options, then the Behaviors tab. There are option boxes for On New and On Search. Options are Clear All Fields, Keep Previous Field Values, and Set Fields to Default Values. Choose your preference. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your

Re: Question: Launch a Dialog window in the background

2008-06-12 Thread Thad K Esser
Have you looked at the Push Fields active link action? Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach T. Dee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 06/12/2008 09:15 AM Please

Re: popup on mid-tier login

2008-06-11 Thread Thad K Esser
Gary, We haven't started working with the 7.x mid-tier yet, but will soon, so I've been following your thread. I'm not an html/java expert, but shouldn't that code result in a 1x1 pixel window in the upper far right of the screen? (

Re: popup on mid-tier login

2008-06-11 Thread Thad K Esser
) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:32 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: popup on mid-tier login ** Gary, We haven't started working with the 7.x mid-tier yet, but will soon, so I've been following your thread. I'm not an html/java

Re: CMDB 2.1 - CI Relationship Viewer Install

2008-06-09 Thread Thad K Esser
CMDB and Mid-tier do not need to be installed on the same server. I think all you have to do (beyond what you've already done) to get the CI viewer to work is to point the Default Web Path (its on the Advanced tab of the Server Information form) to your Mid-Tier. Thad Esser Remedy Developer

Re: Java question....

2008-06-06 Thread Thad K Esser
Speaking of confusing version numbers... I recently ran across document #88219 (http://documents.bmc.com/supportu/documents/82/19/88219/88219.pdf ), titled BMC Configuration Management Configuration Discovery Integration for CMDB 7.2.01. CMDB 7.2.01? I was thinking Atrium is at 2.1... maybe

Re: Adding custom header to SMTP header for emails from AREmail engine?

2008-06-03 Thread Thad K Esser
I do it this way as well. Seems to work pretty good. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Grooms, Frederick W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 06/03/2008 12:57 PM

Re: Mass changes in repository - def file format?

2008-06-02 Thread Thad K Esser
Peter, The error messages that are displayed when a pattern doesn't match notoriously suck. You might consider creating a filter(s) to do your pattern checks, and then display a more user friendly error message. If, as Matt suggested, your field IDs are the same across all the forms, then

Re: Tables not refreshing On Open

2008-05-30 Thread Thad K Esser
If the AL is only running on Display, won't the $OPERATION$ value always be SET? By the way, if your table is on a tab, I'd recommend turning OFF the Refresh On Entry Change setting. A lot of the performance issues with forms displaying stem from tables that no one is looking at being

Re: SOLVED: Tables not refreshing On Open

2008-05-30 Thread Thad K Esser
Make sure you take off the Window Open condition, otherwise your table will refresh twice every time the form opens (you can see it in the logs) Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Morrison, David A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: SOLVED: Tables not refreshing On Open

2008-05-30 Thread Thad K Esser
only in Search or New mode), but before the data is loaded. Using Display also removes the need for the $OPERATION$ keyword. Rick On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Thad K Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Make sure you take off the Window Open condition, otherwise your table will refresh twice

Re: SOLVED: Tables not refreshing On Open

2008-05-30 Thread Thad K Esser
respond to arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To arslist@ARSLIST.ORG cc Subject Re: SOLVED: Tables not refreshing On Open ** Yes, it is a display only form. Thanks. David M From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Friday, May 30

Re: AR System Log Display

2008-05-27 Thread Thad K Esser
Janie, I never use ARLogDisplay, and a cursory glance just now didn't show any options for setting word wrapping. I think most normal text editors have an option for word wrapping that you can set to display everything on one line. Of course, then you have to scroll to the right to see the

Re: No users can log in.

2008-05-19 Thread Thad K Esser
Gary, The next time that happens, you might also try arsignal with a -g or -u. That might help avoid a server restart (doesn't solve the core issue of course). Details of arsignal are in the configuration guide (page 301 of the 7.x copy I have). Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your

Re: How to open an attachment in a child form record from a tablefield on the parent record?

2008-05-15 Thread Thad K Esser
In addition to what LJ says, I think you might want a char field on the child form to hold the filename of the jpg (put a filter on the child form to update it on submit modify). Then you can use the char field in the table field on the parent form so they can see the filename. Also, if you

Re: How to open an attachment in a child form record from a tablefield on the parent record?

2008-05-15 Thread Thad K Esser
...if you don't have access to get into the container, you can't get to the things in it...even if you have permission to them...:) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:07 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: ARWARN 70

2008-05-08 Thread Thad K Esser
problems with things like building SLMs for Change Management, for example. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:19 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ARWARN 70 David, Apparently I'm

Re: ARWARN 70

2008-05-08 Thread Thad K Esser
@ARSLIST.ORG cc Subject Re: ARWARN 70 ** Watch out Thad, you never turned off your sarcasm flag From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:09 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ARWARN 70 I

Re: MidTier 7.0.1 Form Name Issue

2008-05-07 Thread Thad K Esser
This is what I get: SQL select name from arschema where name like '%/%' NAME -- CFG:Geography State/Province CFG:Pred/Succ Associations CFG:Pred/Succ Relationship PBM:KnownError/KDBAssoc Search PCT:Product M/V Company Lookup PCT:Product M/V Uti Com

Re: ARWARN 70

2008-05-07 Thread Thad K Esser
David, Apparently I'm in an SQL mood today. This Oracle SQL (yours should be similar) ought to help you track down which field is referencing a missing menu: //Character fields referencing menus that don't exist select s.name FormName, f.fieldid, f.fieldname, fc.charmenu, cm.charmenuid from

Re: ITIL Remedy

2008-05-06 Thread Thad K Esser
SP We can't be bearded hermits hiding in dark server rooms doing mysterious things all day. So, if I understand you correctly, ITIL Best Practices say that I should shave more and get a tan? :-) I can live with that. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough,

Re: login.jsp caching

2008-04-17 Thread Thad K Esser
that helps. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach - Forwarded by Thad K Esser/OR/Regence on 04/17/2008 10:03 AM - Ross, Isabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 03

Re: Printing Incidents

2008-04-11 Thread Thad K Esser
We are on 6.3, so this may not apply, but we have a button that runs a report to print tickets as well. If the user specifies a preference server when logging in, they will get an error when they try to run this report. Its almost always a 1658 error though, not a time-out issue. If you

Re: Escalation will not run?

2008-04-09 Thread Thad K Esser
I believe with 6.3 there was a patch level that had bugs with escalations. You'd get ghost escalation threads, and you could only see them by looking at weirdness in the logs. What I did was to disable escalations (server config), which would shut down all the escalation threads. Give it

Re: Equivalent of the TRANSLATE function in Remedy

2008-03-28 Thread Thad K Esser
Joe, Sorry, I'm not sure there's an easy answer to this one without using the SQL. I think you'll have to loop through the string one character at a time to doing your find and replace. Some thoughts though: 1. Does this have to do with your phone number formatting issue? Would it be

Re: Support for the _ wildcard in Run If qualifications

2008-03-27 Thread Thad K Esser
Yes and Yes. (Most recently on ARS 6.3) Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Joe D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 03/27/2008 02:18 PM Please respond to

Re: BMC Remedy - Copy to Archive and Delete from Source

2008-03-26 Thread Thad K Esser
Joe, Properly indexed and tuned 400,000 tickets on a form shouldn't be a problem. To expand on what Susan indicated, nine times out of ten, the biggest cause of slowness when opening forms is table fields that are needlessly being refreshed. Watch out for tables being refreshed on hidden

Re: Runaway filter

2008-03-24 Thread Thad K Esser
Gary beat me to it, but your first issue is using the TR value. Don't. Also, I seem to recall reading that if you put a dash/hyphen in the To: field (or was it a 0), it would send the email to all users. I've never experienced this, so I'm a little light on the details, but maybe somebody

ORUG - Free Airport Simulation Scheduled for March 18th

2008-03-13 Thread Thad K Esser
Hi, Just wanted to send a reminder about the AirSim in Portland (Oregon) next week. There are a few seats left, so if you are interested, let Victoria know. Thanks, Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach -- BMC is

Re: Using Not Like

2008-03-13 Thread Thad K Esser
I think you are correct in your description of the situation. If it helps anyone, one of the tricks I use is that if you are ever in a situation where some of the records have a leading delimiter and some don't, then just add them as part of the qualification. For example, if some of your

Re: New ARS 7.1 feature I didn't see in the Release Notes

2008-03-12 Thread Thad K Esser
I think that was first introduced with the 7.0 admin tool. I didn't do extensive testing, but I remember installing the 7.0 admin tool specifically to use that feature against a 6.3 server, and it worked for what I was doing. I know what you're thinking, bad Thad... don't mix server/admin

Re: Remove duplicate email address from a String

2008-03-07 Thread Thad K Esser
Darshana, Along the lines of Frank's suggestion, how about the following: In your AL that does the looping: Set Fields, SQL: SELECT CONTACT_EMAIL FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHERE CONTACT_ID = '$Col_C_ContactID$' MTNNS_primary_client_contact_email =

Re: Remove duplicate email address from a String

2008-03-07 Thread Thad K Esser
Fields 2: Val2 = $Val1$ + LENGTH($Email$) Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Thad K Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 03/07/2008 10:14 AM

Re: Remove duplicate email address from a String

2008-03-07 Thread Thad K Esser
($MTNNS_primary_client_contact_email$, LOWER($1$),) + , + LOWER($1$) , ) You'll still need to clip the leading comma after the loop is complete. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Thad K Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System

ORUG - Free Airport Simulation Scheduled for March 18th.

2008-02-29 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, For the folks that are in the Portland, Oregon area (or can be), we are doing another Airport Simulation on March 18th. If you are interested, contact Victoria Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to register. Seating is limited, so let her know sooner rather than later if you are interested.

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-22 Thread Thad K Esser
We settled on 'TR.Fieldname != $NULL$ AND 'Fieldname' != 'DB.Fieldname' What's wrong with this? Its more complicated than it needs to be. ('Fieldname' != 'DB.Fieldname') by itself will give you the same results. By the way, the discussion isn't TR versus DB values, but rather whether or not

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-22 Thread Thad K Esser
if TR is null, it stops parsing the qualification, and saves time. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:52 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview questions ** We settled

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-21 Thread Thad K Esser
How about: What qualification would you use to detect if the value of a field has changed? Or: When is it appropriate to use a TR value in a qualification? (Hint: NEVER) :-) Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-21 Thread Thad K Esser
] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:30 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview questions ** How about: What qualification would you use to detect if the value of a field has changed? Or: When is it appropriate to use a TR value

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-21 Thread Thad K Esser
02/21/2008 11:18 AM Please respond to arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To arslist@ARSLIST.ORG cc Subject Re: Interview questions ** Ok I'll take the bite. Why never? John Atherly American Power Conversion [EMAIL PROTECTED] 401-789-5735 Ext. 2120 1-800-788-2208 Ext. 2120 Thad K Esser [EMAIL

Re: Interview questions

2008-02-21 Thread Thad K Esser
How is using 'TR.lesson_status' better than just 'lesson_status'? Thad Esser Remedy Developer Work: 503-220-6192 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Pargeter, Christie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: 7.1 Email weirdness

2008-02-14 Thread Thad K Esser
On the new Mailboxes, did you remember to set the Default Mailbox flag to Yes? If I remember right, its on the Advanced tab. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Moore, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System

Re: Appending headers to outgoing email messages

2008-01-21 Thread Thad K Esser
, but it did not work for me. Can you tell me what version of ARS server and email engine you are using? Thanks. Larry On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Thad K Esser wrote: ** Larry, In regards to your first bullet: It is not possible to pass a multi-line character value to any

Re: Appending headers to outgoing email messages

2008-01-18 Thread Thad K Esser
Larry, In regards to your first bullet: It is not possible to pass a multi-line character value to any of the email header fields using the Notify action. I'm actually doing just that. In my scenario I use a temporary character field and build out the header elements I want, making

Re: How many attachments?

2007-12-14 Thread Thad K Esser
4) With 20 attachment fields in the pool, you will end up with a scroll bar unless you make the field unusually tall. Users could add an attachment to any one of the 20 fields without filling in the others. If they chose to add one to a field that is only seen when you scroll down, other

Re: Can An Attachment Field Be Made Read Only? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2007-12-13 Thread Thad K Esser
I have a display only attachment field that is being set with a set fields. When I was first setting it up, one issue I had was that if I put the attachment field on an Admin Only tab (or a tab to which the user doesn't have permissions), the set fields wouldn't happen. This was the case

Re: Can An Attachment Field Be Made Read Only? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2007-12-13 Thread Thad K Esser
Subject Re: Can An Attachment Field Be Made Read Only? (UNCLASSIFIED) ** If it is display only then how do you save the file in the attachment field? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:54

Splitting Mid-Tier to two servers

2007-12-11 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, I need to tap into the Virtual Brain that is The Arslist as I have little depth when it comes to web technologies. The group that handles our web servers is wanting to split our Mid-Tier by putting the Web Server on one machine and the Application Server/JSP engine on a different one.

Re: Friday Humor - Questions that have Confused humankind!!

2007-12-07 Thread Thad K Esser
Okay, my turn to geek out... This question answers itself - clearly the egg came first. The question is NOT Which came first the chicken or the chicken egg, but Which came first, the chicken or the egg. Clearly there were eggs (such as Dinosaur) long before anything even resembling a chicken

Re: Friday Humor - Questions that have Confused humankind!!

2007-12-07 Thread Thad K Esser
That's quite the explanation. Maybe we should get the toaster guys to write the documentation for BMC. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach William Rentfrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion

Re: Friday Humor - Questions that have Confused humankind!!

2007-12-07 Thread Thad K Esser
hatched out of it, or a not-quite-a-chicken egg because a not-quite-a-chicken laid it? Dwayne Martin James Madison University Original message Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:55:14 -0800 From: Thad K Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Friday Humor - Questions that have Confused humankind

Re: Atrium Integration Engine

2007-12-06 Thread Thad K Esser
jobs to bring data from TD, instead of using the OOB integration is an option we are considering instead of writing another set of API programs to do what TD is already doing. Cheers, -- Shyam - Original Message - From: Thad K Esser Newsgroups: gmane.comp.crm.arsystem.general To: arslist

Re: Atrium Integration Engine

2007-12-06 Thread Thad K Esser
of API programs to do what TD is already doing. Cheers, -- Shyam - Original Message - From: Thad K Esser Newsgroups: gmane.comp.crm.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Atrium Integration Engine ** And I'd be one of those

Re: Atrium Integration Engine

2007-12-05 Thread Thad K Esser
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Atrium Integration Engine Thad, AIE provides a decent integraion point between Remedy and other databases. The interface is a little clunky, but it does what it's supposed to do. The alternative is to write your own interfaces. Drew On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Thad K

Atrium Integration Engine

2007-12-05 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, I'm looking for some input on the value of the Atrium Integration Engine - trying to decide if I want to use it or not. In reading through the manuals, it seems overly complicated and not all that efficient, but if someone can tell me its the next best thing since sliced bread (and

Re: Looping through fields

2007-12-03 Thread Thad K Esser
Depending on your version that may already be built in to ARS, but I wanted to advise that if your requirement is to detect if a field has changed you want to use ('Field' != 'DB.Field'), without the TR. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.--

Re: Filter Table Walk Question

2007-11-29 Thread Thad K Esser
Table Looping + Filter Guide = Phasing issue. Add `! to the end of your filter name. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Pargeter, Christie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: ITSM 7.0 - Patch 6

2007-11-27 Thread Thad K Esser
What is the document number on the very last page? Sometimes you can guess at the link using that. For example, document #70579 is at http://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/05/79/70579/70579.pdf http://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/2nd 3rd digits/4th 5th digits/full doc #/full

Re: PERFORM-ACTION-APPLY Weirdness (UNCLASSIFIED)

2007-11-26 Thread Thad K Esser
Your logs will tell you what mode you're in when the AL fires. That might help illuminate the issue. Have you tried playing with the execution order of your Active links? Put the $OPERATION$ != QUERY one in front of the other one. That way you know you are in QUERY mode and the AL should

Re: Is a Case function possible in Remedy?

2007-11-13 Thread Thad K Esser
Pete, As Matt mentions, if you are trying to convert a number to a specific string, you can have all kinds of fun just using a single set fields. For example, if $IntegerField$ is a number from 1-12, you can convert it to a month with the following set fields into a string: RTRIM(SUBSTR(

Re: How AR System ODBC Data Source Driver is reset when the status report option in Helpdesk application is used

2007-11-09 Thread Thad K Esser
When we had the exact same error, we tracked it down to whether or not the user was using a preference server. If they used a preference server when logging in, it would put a seemingly random number in the Private RPC Socket field of the ODBC config. I never checked if it was resetting the

Patch 6 (ITSM 7.0.02)

2007-11-06 Thread Thad K Esser
For those of you working on an ITSM 7.0.02 install/upgrade, patch 6 came out yesterday (as Chris noted). From the release notes and talking with support, there are some differences from patch 5. Patch 5 - One installer that has to be run on a Windows machine. The installer figures out which

Re: Push Field not happening SOLVED (hard coded server references)

2007-11-06 Thread Thad K Esser
Here's an SQL (Oracle) snippet I wrote to find any hardcoded server references. It was written for 6.3, but seems to work on 7.1. Maybe it will help you find any others. - select 'Table' Item, a.name Form, f.fieldname ObjectName, ft.tfserver ReferredToServer from ARSCHEMA a, field f,

Thad K Esser is out of the office.

2007-10-26 Thread Thad K Esser
I will be out of the office starting 10/26/2007 and will not return until 11/05/2007. I will respond to your message when I return. ***IMPORTANT NOTICE: This communication, including any attachment, contains information that may be confidential or privileged, and is intended solely for the

Re: OT: Re: Friday Humor: AMAZINGLY SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES

2007-10-19 Thread Thad K Esser
The problem is... number 7 IS a home remedy. It tells you how to get things moving or stop them from moving. However, I'll agree number 8 isn't. TGIF, Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP

2007-10-19 Thread Thad K Esser
Buy low, sell high. Sunil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 10/19/2007 11:08 AM Please respond to arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To arslist@ARSLIST.ORG cc Subject HELP ** HELP -- Regards Nivrutti Patil

Re: Application-Copy-Field-Value for TR value

2007-10-17 Thread Thad K Esser
The TR value is only availble as part of a Run-If of a filter. Its not available for Active Links or actions in any type of workflow. Not sure about the details of your situation, but if you are using a run process, keep phasing in mind. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations,

Re: CMDB 2.01 Installation on Windows NT

2007-10-16 Thread Thad K Esser
And one that just bit me... The manual say to turn Administrator Only Mode on to improve performance. Don't do that, there's a defect logged against it: SW00256289. From support: We found after some of the later patches of CMDB, extensionloader does not create some of the joins

Re: Strange!! No data in attachments.

2007-10-12 Thread Thad K Esser
I've had issues with attachment pools on admin tabs. Even if your pool has all the proper permissions, if its on a tab that the end user doesn't have access to, it didn't work right. I don't recall the exact error, but it didn't give any indication that it was related to permissions - more

Re: Read data in MS SQL Server from a Oracle Unix Environment

2007-10-11 Thread Thad K Esser
D'Souza -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:31 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Read data in MS SQL Server from a Oracle Unix Environment ** Another option might

Re: Read data in MS SQL Server from a Oracle Unix Environment

2007-10-10 Thread Thad K Esser
Another option might be to use Croom Consulting's external linking: http://www.buoyantsolutions.net/External_DB.html I used it a couple of years ago, and it worked great. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Thad K Esser
Dave, The use of TR is pretty entrenched in people's minds. If your fellow developers give you any grief about you not wanting to use TR values, send them here and we'll edu-ma-cate them. :-) Thad don't use TR values ever Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough,

Re: Filter Problem

2007-10-04 Thread Thad K Esser
is retrieved at the start of the processing and used for comparison throughout the process. This is just for the Run If...the action items inside the filters can and do perform additional queries of the database. Stephen Remedy Skilled Professional --- Thad K Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Filter Problem

2007-10-04 Thread Thad K Esser
to be driven crazy other ways. It has been around 5 years since I stopped using TR values. In with 'Field Name' != 'DB.Field Name' In with 'Field Name' != 'DB.Field Name' AND 'Field Name'!= $NULL$ Out with 'TR.Field Name' = $NULL$ (which misses blanking out of data anyway) --- Thad K

Re: TR, DB, and nothing

2007-10-04 Thread Thad K Esser
Exactly... Filters only, and the TR/DB values are only available as part of the Run If of the filter. They don't exist for any of the actions. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Wheeler, Dylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

Re: TR, DB, and nothing

2007-10-04 Thread Thad K Esser
Almost... 'FieldName' = The most current value of the field 'TR.FieldName' = The TRansaction value of the field. Basically, any field that is in the SET clause of the SQL update statement. 'DB.FieldName' = The value stored in the database. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your

Re: Filter Problem

2007-10-04 Thread Thad K Esser
) and we should be usingTR.Field != $NULL$, shouldn't we?? At least that was my understanding and I'm still new to ARS. Thank you, Dave. Thad K Esser wrote: My two rules for TR and DB values: 1. Don't use TR values (DB values are useful good). 2. If you need to use

Re: Building a temporary test server on the same box as development

2007-10-03 Thread Thad K Esser
How about the email engine install folder (/usr/ar/AREmail/servername) or config properties? Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Shyam Attavar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Filter Problem

2007-10-03 Thread Thad K Esser
Also, it could have a value if the record update is the result of a push fields from somewhere else. One way to get a handle on this is to run a short SQL log and find the update statements. If a field is included in the SET clause, the TR concept applies, whatever the actual value. My two

Re: Escalation creating dup tickets

2007-10-02 Thread Thad K Esser
Chris, I haven't followed this whole thread, so I apologize if I missed something, but is there only one TID (thread id) in your escalation log? I've had situations on an unpatched 6.3 server where ghost escalation threads would show up. Escalations would appear to fire twice on the same

Reminder: ORUG (Oregon RUG, new name for Portland RUG) meeting 9/25

2007-09-24 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, I just wanted to send a reminder out to the list that the Oregon RUG is tomorrow. Details below or at www.remedyusergroups.com . Thanks, Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach - Forwarded by Thad K Esser/OR/Regence

Re: Dedicated Queue for Mid-Tier

2007-09-19 Thread Thad K Esser
routine to use when estimating Fast and List thread limits. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:43 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated Queue for Mid-Tier

Dedicated Queue for Mid-Tier

2007-09-18 Thread Thad K Esser
Sorry about that last e-mail, I learned something about our mail servers today (don't put the word Private in the subject line). Anyway, my original question: Last year around this time, there was a discussion about using a private queue to improve Mid-Tier response. Someone mentioned that a

Re: Dedicated Queue for Mid-Tier

2007-09-18 Thread Thad K Esser
that it won?t cause too much overhead on your AR Server. This should apply to any version of AR Server and Mid Tier. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:35 PM

Re: Error occurred in generating report. (ARERR 1658)

2007-09-18 Thread Thad K Esser
We've gotten this error off and on with some users for a while now. I usually would clear the cache and generally monkey around with the settings and fix it, but it didn't always work. Just yesterday I had a user that was experiencing this, and while at his desk watching him log on, I

Re: Disable a filter

2007-09-17 Thread Thad K Esser
If you didn't want to restart the server, you could use arsignal with the -g option. arsignal (arsignal.exe) The arsignal utility forces an AR System server to load or reload information. The process can be run on any machine. Synopsis: arsignal {-c|-g|-l|-a}

Re: Workflow will not fire?

2007-09-11 Thread Thad K Esser
Brian, From your logs... the SCHN-PO4PushNonStandardItem AL is the one you are concerned about, but notice... you said it has 4 actions: 1) Push Fields - to a supporting table 2) Close Window 3) Set Fields - I am setting a field using COLSUM 4) Change Field - simply refresh a table field In

Re: Question: Finding Text

2007-09-10 Thread Thad K Esser
Based on what you said about the text always starting with Street Address:, you could also use something like: ztmpfield = LTRIM(REPLACE($AddressField$,Street Address:,)) Takes care of it without any other string manipulations. Or since you know the text Street Address: is always

OT: JDBC ARDBC Plugin

2007-09-10 Thread Thad K Esser
Where's my flying car? Available as of last month: http://www.moller.com/news.htm - The M200 Volantor Becomes A Viable Product As the Rotapower® engine enters high volume production for a variety of applications, we believe its unit cost will fall dramatically. The engines are the

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