Re: ARS Implementation team - how many?

2007-10-05 Thread Uday Joshi
Ditto You may have real tough time but the knowledge, confidence you will gain at the end will tremendous as compared to training. I am not trying to devaluate the training but just training can be forgotten, however experience can not. Finally you can always fall back on ARSlister. Best

Re: ARS Implementation team - how many?

2007-10-05 Thread Ri Mez
This is exactly the attitude I've taken. It is a bad situation BUT I am actually getting quite a lot of experience from this. This is my 2nd Implementation now. The last one I was the Business Analyst and Admin before Handover. That was last year and it was 6.3. One of the ARS developers (from

Re: ITSM Patch 5 failing

2007-10-05 Thread E. Louise van Hine
I have installed Patch 5 but clearly something went wrong that did not show up in the logfiles because I was getting SQL errors upon opening the Change Management Console. The answer was reinstallation. I was at another customer site this week which had installed Patch 5 with apparently no

Re: TR, DB, and nothing

2007-10-05 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, It only states that TR should be used to check the value of a transaction. It does not describe what a transaction-value is. It will allways suffice to do these tests: 1. check for any change: ('Field' != 'DB.Field') 2. check for a change to non NULL value: ('Field' != 'DB.Field' AND

Delete Incident I.D after it is created

2007-10-05 Thread Ravikumar_Tadi
Hi Listers, I have a requirement to delete an incident number from the HPD:CFG Ticket Num Generator form after the incident is created in the HelpDesk form. Current workflow allows the incident number to be deleted on Modify, but the incident number should be deleted on Submit.In the filter

Re: ARSList Awards: Some yes, some no.MVP not enough yet!

2007-10-05 Thread Timothy Powell
Oh wowover 4000. Based on my figures there are more people in the hospital than I thought. need to give FTD a call and get some more flowers sent out.. _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of arslist Sent: Thursday, October

Re: Filter Problem

2007-10-05 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, One very important thing is that values will never be , it will be NULL. Leading and trailing whitespace will also be stripped, so the string would also be set to NULL. AR User will automatically convert empty charfields to NULL. When you do imports, leading and trailing whitespaces can

Re: Delete Incident I.D after it is created

2007-10-05 Thread YHK
Good morning Ravi, I believe you need to remove the $'s that surround the form name. Hope that helps! YHK On 10/5/07, Ravikumar_Tadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Listers, I have a requirement to delete an incident number from the HPD:CFG Ticket Num Generator form after the incident is

Re: Delete Incident I.D after it is created

2007-10-05 Thread YHK
I'm assuming you are firing this off HelpDesk, if so I think you need to do an query delete. Application-Query-Delete-Entry form qualification string I need some coffee...lol On 10/5/07, YHK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning Ravi, I believe you need to remove the $'s that surround the

Re: Delete Incident I.D after it is created

2007-10-05 Thread Teresa Fannin
Just Curious as to why you want to delete the incident number from HPD:CFG Ticket Num Generator. If it is for cleanup purposes maybe you need an escalation that runs at night instead of doing a delete with every Incident creation. You did say you want to delete the number on Submit so I

Re: Competitors to Remedy ARS?

2007-10-05 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
The trial version is command line only. The registered version allows GUI apps. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dayton Gay Wheeler Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:04 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

ARSlist Awards all but software categories over the line

2007-10-05 Thread Daniel Bloom
We have enough votes for BMC Remedy Beyond the Call of Duty and the ARSlist MVP Awards. This doesn’t mean you should stop voting. so far we are at best ½ way to the 50 votes required for any of the software categories. Surprising since we easily did that last year. Also, perhaps the

Re: Delete Incident I.D after it is created

2007-10-05 Thread Roger Justice
Until?the entry has been created?you cannot?delete it that is why the OOTB filter fires on?Modify. -Original Message- From: Teresa Fannin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 8:13 am Subject: Re: Delete Incident I.D after it is created ** Just Curious as to

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Dave.ARSList
Hello listers, I really need help with this. any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dave. Dave.ARSList wrote: Hello listers, Is there a way to get a list of all the fields you are currently auditing on any given form? Possibly details of what you are auditing? Also,

Re: Delete Incident I.D after it is created

2007-10-05 Thread Teresa Fannin
True but once the Incident Number (different than the Incident ID on the Incident form) has been generated that should exist in HPD:CFG Ticket Num Generator so that on Submit of the Incident you could delete the Entry in HPD:CFG Ticket Num Generator. But why do you want to delete the

Re: ARSlist Awards all but software categories over the line

2007-10-05 Thread Heider, Stephen
Moose calls? http://www.smouse.force9.co.uk/Moose3.wav From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Bloom Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ARSlist Awards

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi! I think you can look at fieldOption in a def-file to find audited fields. These are the values from api/include/ar.h: #define AR_AUDIT_NONE 0 #define AR_AUDIT_COPY 1 #define AR_AUDIT_LOG 2 fieldOption : 1 = audit fieldOption : 2 = copy fieldOption : 3 = audit+copy (1+2) You can use our

Re: ARSlist Awards all but software categories over the line

2007-10-05 Thread Dave.ARSList
Listers, It upsets me when there are people like Misi, Axton, Matt and other nominees share tremendous knowledge and help everybody and still people do not have enough courtesy to vote!! I wish I can vote 1000s of time 'cos I would!! May be we should have Remedy Idol contest which allows users

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Dave.ARSList
Misi, I checked out the site but I did not find rrrDefSearch. The tools available are following: RRR|License - License Tuning and Statistics RRR|Log - Logfile Analyzer and Performance Tuner RRR|HelpText (free) - Manage your Help Texts RRR|Lock (free) - Generic Record Locking RRR|Flash

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Dave.ARSList
Awesome!! Thank you so much Misi, it's much appreciated. I also want to thank you and Axton for in-dept explanation about TR and DB values. Thanks again. Misi Mladoniczky wrote: Hi! I think you can look at fieldOption in a def-file to find audited fields. These are the values from

Re: ARSlist Awards all but software categories over the line

2007-10-05 Thread Pickering, Christopher
I wonder if we should have an ARSlist hall of fame. C -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave.ARSList Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:10 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ARSlist Awards all but

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Dave.ARSList
Misi, I guess I needed rrrDefAndBlind tool LOL. I got it under rrrCommands. Thanks again. Dave. Dave.ARSList wrote: Misi, I checked out the site but I did not find rrrDefSearch. The tools available are following: RRR|License - License Tuning and Statistics RRR|Log - Logfile

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi Dave, If you login, you will be able to find ut under the RRR|Commands. The direct access url (when you have registered an account) is: https://www.rrr.se/cgi/tools/main#rrrDefSearch Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se/sv/ Misi, I checked out the site but I did not

Flashboards Force the Zero value or at least the FULL legend.

2007-10-05 Thread patrick zandi
Flashboard Customers, If you have a flashboard with 4 possible values and 2 sometimes are 0 and the other 2 have numbers.. How can you force the Value's to display as a Zero.. Example Question 1 Answers are 0 1 2 3 DB wise.. but if 0 and 1 are not present (as represented as a Zero) then

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Dave.ARSList
Misi, I was able to dump out the text file. I noticed it only had fields with fieldOption 1. I assume I don't have any fields with fieldOption 2 or 3. However, does it mean it doesn't dump out any fields with fieldOption 0? Or it means every single fields are being audited? The later one can'e be

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, In many cases when something has a 0-value, the row is removed from the def-file. In this case, there is only 50 fields that is audited. The fields has the flag set to 1 which means 'Audit'. No 'Copy' or 'Audit and Copy' is present in your def-file. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB,

Re: Attention people licensing 7.1 on a Linux server

2007-10-05 Thread Easter, David
FYI, I followed up with development on this issue and we couldn't duplicate it in house. Adding or upgrading a valid license (i.e. not expired) through the Administration Console to an AR System 7.1.00 server running on Linux worked just fine. Do you have a defect number logged against your

Problem with Task Groups

2007-10-05 Thread Pedro Cardoso
Hi List! I have a problem with Change Management 7.0.2 patch 4, ARS 7.0.1 patch 3 WIN 2003 SQL 2005 In specific with Task Groups, when the RFC is Implementation In Progress the first Task is Assigned but when it is Closed with Successful the next sequence Task is no awaked and keeps staged

Re: ARSlist Awards all but software categories over the line

2007-10-05 Thread Shellman, David
And a happy Thanksgiving weekend to you. Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Bloom Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ARSlist Awards all but software

Humor:Signs Your Spouse loves your Cat more than They Love You!

2007-10-05 Thread Gidd
TGIF !! The cat gets to sit in the front seat on long car rides. Your cat gets taken out to dinner more often than you do.

OT: OpenOffice.org from Sun..

2007-10-05 Thread Joe D'Souza
Has anybody used this tool OpenOffice.org? How long has it been around? I just got a link to download it while updating java on my laptop to download it for free. Its description sounds good and I'm tempted to try it out. This is the link.. http://java.com/en/download/javacom_update.jsp Joe

Re: OpenOffice.org from Sun..

2007-10-05 Thread L. J. Head
It's an open source office replacement...it can import and save to most MS Office document versions. It comes standard with most Linux distributions...I use it on my home machine (Ubuntu)...it's a pretty good suite _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: OpenOffice.org from Sun..

2007-10-05 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Yes, I've used it on and off for many years. I believe it became Open Office in 2000 or 2001 when Sun acquired a product that I think was called Star Office. Is it a good product? Well, for a free product, it's excellent. As competition for something like Office, it doesn't hold a

Re: OT: OpenOffice.org from Sun..

2007-10-05 Thread patrick zandi
love it.. use it at home.. alot.. better in my opion than the MS stuff.. I like the export to pdf and many other formats.. On 10/5/07, Joe D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Has anybody used this tool OpenOffice.org? How long has it been around? I just got a link to download it while

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Joe D'Souza
Dave, I know Misi has already guided you to one of her tools for achieving this, but I wanted to point out your qualification 'TR.Priority' != 'DB.Priority' will always be evaluated as true when DB.Priority is NOT NULL when there is no change to the Priority value when the DB.Priority value is

Re: OpenOffice.org from Sun..

2007-10-05 Thread Watson, Benjamin A.
Even better, Google search for Open Office Portable. The entire Open Office suite (word, excel, powerpoint, access) can be installed to a flash drive. Now you have a free office suite that can travel with you without the need to install anything on the actual computer. It comes in handy if

Mean Time to Repair reporting?

2007-10-05 Thread Julie L Kanakanui JLKANAKA
Hi, We are using Remedy HelpDesk 6.03. Does anyone know if there are OTB reports on Mean Time to Repair metric? I know of (and use) the Hours to Resolve field so could just do calculations with that, but I would be interested to hear if anyone has other suggestions to report on this

Re: OT: OpenOffice.org from Sun..

2007-10-05 Thread Joe D'Souza
I pulled this from a summarized list of features that OpenOffice.org supports. Writer – a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book. Calc – a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyse, and present your data in

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Shellman, David
Joe, Misi is male not female.. Dave Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wireless) - Original Message - From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri Oct 05 13:48:19 2007 Subject: Re:

Re: HelpDesk Audit

2007-10-05 Thread Dave.ARSList
Joe, You are indeed absolutely correct!! I am actually a new addition to my team and looks like my fellow developers have used TR heavily!! It's everywhere :( After the great debate here on ARSList, I have a greater and better understanding of TR v/s DB values. Believe it or not, the moment I

Re: EXTERNAL command problems

2007-10-05 Thread Arner, Todd
Are the field label and DB name the same for Assigned Group? If they are different you will want to make sure to use the DB name in the table qualification. The label name will work if searching from the form itself but you need the DB name for the table qualification. Try copying the search

Re: OT: OpenOffice.org from Sun..

2007-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use it pretty extensively outside of the office. I even installed in on my kid's computers for them to use for school work (beats buying multiple MS Office licenses). They seem to be able to switch between MS Office and OOo pretty seamlessly. If your looking for something that can read and

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: Mean Time to Repair reporting?

2007-10-05 Thread Joe D'Souza
Hours to resolve in my opinion is more the total time of outage, and in a very strict sense, not the time taken to repair. Time taken to repair in a strict sense is the time a technician starts on a job and finishes it. If the technician revisits the job at different times, its the total of all

Re: Mean Time to Repair reporting?

2007-10-05 Thread Julie L Kanakanui JLKANAKA
thanks for that full explanation! Julie Joe D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 10/05/2007 02:53 PM Please respond to arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To arslist@ARSLIST.ORG cc Subject Re: Mean Time to Repair reporting? ** Hours

ITSM 7 Notifications White Paper? Anybody seen this document or is it a myth?

2007-10-05 Thread Rabi Tripathi
I remember reference to a whitepaper titled ITSM 7 Notifications White Paper or something close to it in one of the books. I can't find anything like it on support site and BMC support says they don't know about it. At least the guy I asked said he doesn't know about it. The title sounds

Re: ITSM Patch 5 failing

2007-10-05 Thread Joe D'Souza
So far fortunately I am yet to have any problems with it. I have on 2 occasions installed Patch 5, both on MS-SQL 2K5 and Windows 2K3. I've had no problems with it. I have however installed patch 5 after installing the previous patches sequentially as either the previous patches were already

Client 7.1

2007-10-05 Thread Nguyen, Tai D
Hello list, Has anyone seen any issues with Remedy Client 7.1.00 (the latest Client) on ARS 6.03 patch 20? For example, if you open two Remedy Support Console at the same time, your Client crashed. Thanks Tai ___

Re: ITSM 7 Notifications White Paper? Anybody seen this document or is it a myth?

2007-10-05 Thread Rabi Tripathi
Ah, funny question you ask William. What do I seek? It's a few notches below the secret of the universe. I just want to be able to understand ITSM 7's assignment on-call notification scheme and be able to do some reconfiguration/customization. I don't know what exactly would be in this white

Re: ITSM 7 Notifications White Paper? Anybody seen this document or is it a myth?

2007-10-05 Thread Easter, David
There's a section in the BMC Best Practice Process Flows for ITIL Change Management white paper on notifications... http://documents.bmc.com/supportu/documents/57/45/65745/65745.pdf Maybe that's what the reference is to? -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Service Management Business Unit

Re: ITSM 7 Notifications White Paper? Anybody seen this document or is it a myth?

2007-10-05 Thread William Rentfrow
What exactly are you looking for? A list of all the notifications in ITSM7? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rabi Tripathi Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 2:34 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ITSM 7

Re: Client 7.1

2007-10-05 Thread Wheeler, Dylan
Hey Tai, I have that client with ARS 6.03 patch 21 without any problems. Connecting to 3 servers and just tried opening all 3 consoles. No crash. Dylan -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nguyen,

Re: ITSM 7 Notifications White Paper? Anybody seen this document or is it a myth?

2007-10-05 Thread Easter, David
Does anything like this exist for Service Desk? 17-Oct-2006 (White Paper) BMC Best Practice Process Flows for ITIL Incident and Problem Management PDF http://www.bmc.com/supportu/documents/56/78/65678/65678.pdf -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Service Management

Re: ITSM 7 Notifications White Paper? Anybody seen this document or is it a myth?

2007-10-05 Thread Rabi Tripathi
William: To give you an example, I am looking for answser to this question: (1) When on-call flag is turned on for any group, all regular assignment notifications (emails/alerts) for that group that normally go to the members based on member's notificatin preferences suddenly stop. Only the

Re: ARSlist Awards all but software categories over the line

2007-10-05 Thread Howard Richter
Ok, since you said the name moose. We need someone to take a photo with a moose under the BMC logo. And Happy Friday Howard On 10/5/07, Daniel Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** We have enough votes for BMC Remedy Beyond the Call of Duty and the ARSlist MVP Awards. This doesn't mean

Re: ARSlist Awards all but software categories over the line

2007-10-05 Thread strauss
All seriousness aside, after my boss and I just spent the morning trying to explain ITSM 7 application behavior to the assembled multitude of IT staff here (most of whom have almost 10 years of experience with Help Desk 3, 4, and 5.5), my assessment is that any photo of a large moose would be

BMC Remedy Product Documentation Filenames

2007-10-05 Thread Michelle L
Hi, David Easter and Fellow Listers: I'm sure this question has been posed before. I've noticed that for at least the past year that all of the product document PDFs have numbers for filenames. Although, I will always have a preference for the dark ages of books, I've adapted to the PDF

Re: OT: OpenOffice.org from Sun..

2007-10-05 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Joe, I have use OOO for a few years now. While I think it is very good for a free software it is a bit more rough than M$ Office. I have not really had a use for Impress yet. ( But I also have no use for PowerPoint either.) I have not really had a use for Math yet. ( But I have no idea what in

Re: Delete Incident I.D after it is created

2007-10-05 Thread Rakshit Bhandary
Hi, What i can think of right now is, change the filter name which does the push to end to end with `! so that it doesnt go through the usual filter phasing. Then once the record is pushed, give a APPLICATION-RELEASE-PENDING process. This should have committed your push. Then delete the record.

Re: BMC Remedy Product Documentation Filenames

2007-10-05 Thread Rick Cook
Michelle, glad to see you back on the list - I've missed you! Actually, if you're referring to recent patches like 7.0.1 p4, there was a documented bug on that very issue - a more recent version actually fixes the links and uses document names. Not sure if that takes care of the version