How to add fields to TMS:TaskInterface web service

2010-06-09 Thread Thad K Esser
** Hello, I would like to add the assignee field to the update operations on the TMS:TaskInterface web service. I've added fields to other OOB web services, but this didn't work the same or as easily. I found a reference in the Task Management Admin guide that BMC will provide an XSD file if the

JOB: Identity Management / Control-SA Sys Admin

2010-06-04 Thread Thad K Esser
** Listers, This isn't a Remedy job, but it is BMC product related (Control-SA), so I thought I'd throw it out there in case anyone was interested. Don't send resumes to me, apply online: http://www.regence.com/careers Job # : 18153 Location: Portland, Oregon Thanks, Thad Esser Remedy

Re: User AR_ESCALATOR

2010-06-03 Thread Thad K Esser
** Kevin, In order to get our integration to work, I added AND ($USER$ != AR_ESCALATOR ) to the run if of the following filters (ITSM 7.0.3 p9, ARS 7.1) CTM:PPL:VerifyManageInfo_142_Msg CTM:PPL:GetStatusRuleSet_030 CTM:PPL:VerifyManageInfo_141_Check CTM:PPL:ChkUnrestrictedAccess-Fail2_596

Re: User AR_ESCALATOR

2010-06-03 Thread Thad K Esser
values. Example: XXX:PPL:Update. I use company abbreviation in place of XXX. 2. Using the above tag as Run If qualification, create a filter to bypass the workflow that is causing the issue (GOTO action). Thanks Mahesh On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: ** Kevin

Re: SQL Active Link Question

2010-05-20 Thread Thad K Esser
** 1. Use a union. 2. Add a 0/1 on the end of your select so you can put your header at the top via an order by clause Something like: Select 'Company','Active','Current','Special','Procedure',0 UNION select your selection list to match the above, 1 any other bit of SQL order by 6,any other sort

Re: SQL Active Link Question

2010-05-20 Thread Thad K Esser
** Oops... forgot the from dual part. Select 'Company','Active','Current','Special','Procedure',0 from dual UNION ... Thad Esser Remedy Developer From: Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: 05/20/2010 12:55 PM Subject: Re: SQL Active Link Question Sent

Re: Problem doing People Search in Assets

2010-05-11 Thread Thad K Esser
** Ricki, I'm on ITSM 7.0.3, patch 9 (not sure if this applies to 7.5) and depending on how the user would open the CTM:People Search form, they would experience really slow loading (but just several minutes, not half an hour). The issue was a table refresh on window open without enough search

Adding Menus to AST forms

2010-05-03 Thread Thad K Esser
** Hi, I'd like to add a menu to the Floor and Room fields on all the AST forms in Asset Management (ITSM 7.0.3, ARS 7.1, CMDB 2.1). Short of opening every form, and adding the menus, is there an easier way? Those fields don't already have any menu (not even a null menu), so I can't use an active

Re: Adding Menus to AST forms

2010-05-03 Thread Thad K Esser
and have it filter down? Rick From: Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:16:55 -0700 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Adding Menus to AST forms ** Hi, I'd like to add a menu to the Floor and Room fields on all the AST forms in Asset Management (ITSM 7.0.3, ARS 7.1, CMDB

Location data in 7.5

2010-04-14 Thread Thad K Esser
** Hello, I am building an application where menus need to be provided for the Floor and Room fields of a CI. We are currently using ITSM 7.0,3, but will be upgrading to a later version sometime this year. We don't have ITSM 7.6 installed anywhere. In the 7.6 concepts guide, there is a note that

Re: Location data in 7.5

2010-04-14 Thread Thad K Esser
form for that data. Rick On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: ** Hello, I am building an application where menus need to be provided for the Floor and Room fields of a CI. We are currently using ITSM 7.0,3, but will be upgrading to a later version sometime

Re: Location data in 7.5

2010-04-14 Thread Thad K Esser
form for that data. Rick On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: ** Hello, I am building an application where menus need to be provided for the Floor and Room fields of a CI. We are currently using ITSM 7.0,3, but will be upgrading to a later version sometime

Re: TR vs DB sanity check please

2010-04-14 Thread Thad K Esser
** Tommy, In some situations, your version will evaluate to true, even though nothing changed. To truly detect if a value changed, its best to use: 'AssignedToTech' != 'DB.AssignedToTech' Thad Esser Remedy Developer From: Tommy Morris tommy.mor...@radioshack.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: TR vs DB sanity check please

2010-04-14 Thread Thad K Esser
Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:44 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: TR vs DB sanity check please ** Tommy, In some situations, your version will evaluate to true, even though nothing changed

Re: TR vs DB sanity check please

2010-04-14 Thread Thad K Esser
@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:58 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: TR vs DB sanity check please ** All fields that are specified in a push fields action are part of the TRansaction, and will therefore have a TR value, regardless of whether

Re: Location Table Names

2010-03-31 Thread Thad K Esser
** Shane, Site information is spread over several forms. If you are just wanting a list of already defined sites, take a look at SIT:Site Alias Company LookUp. If you are wanting your users to create sites, that's a different issue. Thad Esser Remedy Developer From: Shane Buchholz

Re: SUBSTRC on the third word

2010-03-26 Thread Thad K Esser
** Mark, Assuming words are defined by separating spaces, the third word will be the text that is between the 2nd space and the 3rd space. If there could be leading spaces, LTRIM them off. If there's a chance there won't be at least three spaces, tack one on the end for good measure ($D$ = $D$ +

Re: Question on H and T tables in Remedy Schema

2010-03-25 Thread Thad K Esser
** Depending on your version of ARS, you could disable status history on the form. This is from the 7.1 what's new guide (note that doing this deletes existing status history): Disable status history recording and retrieval This feature provides a property for regular forms that disables the

Re: Active Link Firing Question

2010-03-16 Thread Thad K Esser
** This is off topic from the original question, but wouldn't any Get-Entry filters on the underlying form fire when a row in the table was selected - meaning its possible that some filters could get triggered. Thad Esser Remedy Developer From: Misi Mladoniczky m...@rrr.se To:

Re: Zen of Aeroprise - Resolved

2010-03-12 Thread Thad K Esser
is clicked, then you get a place where you can enter you an advanced qualification. Score one more for the arslist! :-) Thad Esser Remedy Developer From: Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: 03/10/2010 03:38 PM Subject: Zen of Aeroprise Sent by: Action Request

Re: OT - Junior Remedy Developer - Washington DC

2010-03-12 Thread Thad K Esser
** Also, I'd think that having a security clearance would have a value that should be factored into deciding if this were an acceptable wage. I've never delved into government work, so I don't know how much value that has, but its gotta be worth something. Thad Esser Remedy Developer From:

Zen of Aeroprise

2010-03-10 Thread Thad K Esser
** Hello, I'm just starting to work with Aeroprise and am feeling a little dense. Does anyone have any good documentation or resources they can share? I have the installation and Configuration manual, as well as the user guide, but I'm still not finding the things I'm looking for. I did put a

Re: Updating Site Address after a Push Field to Site

2010-03-09 Thread Thad K Esser
** Shane, If you are talking about the Site Address field on the CTM;People form, its a display only field. When a people record is displayed, the address gets built from the address info on SIT:Site for the corresponding site. Or am I missing what you are trying to do? Thad Esser Remedy

Re: Reusing the Status Reason field

2010-03-05 Thread Thad K Esser
** I think he's trying to add the status reason functionality to a completely different form, not repurpose its use on Incident. Robert, have you looked at the SYS:Status Reason Menu Items forms. The records there control the values in the display-only version of the menu (and are form-specific)

Re: Configure Assignment

2010-03-03 Thread Thad K Esser
** Larry, The primary factor is the value in the Sort Order. The assignment config with the highest numbered sort order (with everything else matching) will be the one used. If you look at the form properties of CFG:Assignment, you will see that the records are sorted first by Event, then by

Re: Problem Investigation Cancelled Status Reasons

2010-02-17 Thread Thad K Esser
convoluted and overly complicated. Shane Buchholz Systems Analyst - Remedy From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:17 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Problem Investigation Cancelled Status Reasons

Problem Investigation Cancelled Status Reasons

2010-02-16 Thread Thad K Esser
** Hello, Can anyone tell me what status reasons are available for a Cancelled problem investigation in ITSM 7.6? I didn't see a list in the docs anywhere and I don't have 7.6 installed anywhere. We are on ITSM 7.0.3 patch 9, and the only status reason for cancelled is Duplicate Investigation.

Re: Problem Investigation Cancelled Status Reasons

2010-02-16 Thread Thad K Esser
as form data, technically, they wouldn't be customizations, just configuration changes, right? Rick On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: ** Hello, Can anyone tell me what status reasons are available for a Cancelled problem investigation in ITSM 7.6? I didn't see

Re: Problem on qualification

2010-02-05 Thread Thad K Esser
** Gian, I cleaned out all references to My Company on my servers, but if I recall correctly, wasn't there a space between My and Company (My Company vs. MyCompany)? That may be why your filter isn't firing. Also, get rid of the TR values. To check if assignment has changed: 'Assigned Group'

Re: View vs SQL

2010-01-29 Thread Thad K Esser
** We have an application that has been around for a long time, and has grown organically over the years. When the application was first built, direct SQL was used to look up data in a remote system. It was only in one active link, and I guess was the quickest and easiest way to do it at the time.

('Status' Assigned AND 'Assignee' != $\NULL$) on submit

2010-01-29 Thread Thad K Esser
** Hi, Can someone help me noodle through the purpose of the filters which force the status of an Incident back to Assigned when the assignee changes (ITSM 7.0.3 p9)? Particularly on submit. We have several types of incidents that are created automatically (with a predefined assignee), and we

Re: ('Status' Assigned AND 'Assignee' != $\NULL$) on submit

2010-01-29 Thread Thad K Esser
be aware of it, or may be working on another issue. So from an ITIL standpoint, this makes sense. It is in an assigned state until I decide to begin work on it, at which point I change the status to In Progress. Rick On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: ** Hi

Re: Table Qualification

2010-01-08 Thread Thad K Esser
** I think there was also a missing parentheses after Approver 27 = $USER$ Try this: ( 'Status' = Proposed) AND ( (( 'Approve' = $NULL$ ) AND (( 'Approver 1' = $USER$) OR ( 'Approver 8' = $USER$) OR ( 'Approver 15' = $USER$) OR ( 'Approver 22' = $USER$))) OR (( 'Approve2' = $NULL$ ) AND ((

Re: RPC Port for reconciliation engine - ARERR[120133]

2009-12-17 Thread Thad K Esser
** Hi, One additional question: Does anyone else out there have their reconciliation engine using queues 390698 or 390699? Thanks, Thad Esser Remedy Developer From: Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: 12/16/2009 01:04 PM Subject: RPC Port for reconciliation

Re: RPC Port for reconciliation engine - ARERR[120133]

2009-12-17 Thread Thad K Esser
@ARSLIST.ORG 2009/12/16 Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com: ** While investigating some errors in my arrecond.log, I ran across the KB article below. Having just gone through re-organizing my queues/threads, it sure would have been nice to know this ahead of time. Anyway, is my assumption correct

RPC Port for reconciliation engine - ARERR[120133]

2009-12-16 Thread Thad K Esser
** While investigating some errors in my arrecond.log, I ran across the KB article below. Having just gone through re-organizing my queues/threads, it sure would have been nice to know this ahead of time. Anyway, is my assumption correct that until I put the reconciliation engine on 390698 or

ar.conf entries for queues/threads missing

2009-11-09 Thread Thad K Esser
** Hello, Today I went to update the number of queues I'm allocating for escalations, and found out that my ar.conf file has no entries for ANY queue! The server doesn't appear to be suffering any performance issues right now, but I'm thinking this is a time bomb for my next restart. Before I do

Re: ar.conf entries for queues/threads missing

2009-11-09 Thread Thad K Esser
. Technical Analyst | Kohls Department Stores N56 W17000 Ridgewood Drive | Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 | office: (262) 703-7763 | e-mail: tony.worthing...@kohls.com From: Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: 11/09/2009 03:20 PM Subject: ar.conf entries for queues

Re: Submitter of an Ad-Hoc Approval Record

2009-10-27 Thread Thad K Esser
** We have the exact same customization request, but for ITSM 7.0.3. The only active link or filter in the entire system that does an Add-Sig (in 7.0.3 anyway) run-process is INT:APRCHG:CSG:SaveNextApprover_RefreshFields_217_Close. So with that in mind, the two options we're considering are: 1.

Re: AR System Email Messages Form

2009-10-22 Thread Thad K Esser
** Lyle said everything I was about to suggest. It would also be nice if BMC wouldn't refresh tables on tabs unless that tab is showing (on display of a record). They do it all over the place. It slows down display of the form, and almost always, the table doesn't need to be refreshed until the

Re: Auto-find in Remedy object lists

2009-10-14 Thread Thad K Esser
** That has always annoyed me as well. You get the same behavior (always jumps to first letter) when selecting a form for a Set Fields or a Push fields. I haven't played with the developer studio enough to know if the same thing exists there. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Now... Just where did I

Re: Advanced Search Question

2009-10-07 Thread Thad K Esser
Its not an advanced search, but if its a one time thing, SQL works: select avg(length(Detailed_Decription)) from hpd_help_desk note: yes the db name of the field is missing the 's' in description. *sigh* Thad Esser Remedy Developer Now... Just where did I put that cheese...? |

Re: Stumped - Need some fresh eyes

2009-09-29 Thread Thad K Esser
Lyle (TR.Billing_End_Date will always be NULL unless the value is being changed to something non-null) Note: The TR value could be non-null, whether or not the value is different, if its used in a push fields from some other form. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Now... Just where did I put that

Re: Question around Remedy Web Services

2009-09-23 Thread Thad K Esser
...And you've installed the web service plugin. Consuming a web service (via the set fields as mentioned below) uses only that plugin, and doesn't depend on the mid-tier at all. Also, be aware there are settings (both in the admin tool/dev studio and on the AR server itself) that allow you to

Oregon Remedy User Group (ORUG) Meeting September 22, 2009

2009-09-17 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, For anyone that is interested in attending the next ORUG meeting in Portland (Oregon), let me or Gary know and one of us will send you the address and other contact info. Oregon Remedy User Group Meeting September 22, 2009 AGENDA 8:00am - 8:30am: Check-in Continental Breakfast. 8:30am

Re: Strange errors...help appreciated....

2009-09-10 Thread Thad K Esser
Richard, If its an escalation doing a set fields, look at the ones that are tied to the AAS:ActivityInterface_Create form, and then pay attention to the filters that might be triggered. (use your logs) If its an escalation doing a push fields, the following Oracle SQL will help you find which

ORUG Meeting - September 22, 2009

2009-09-08 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, For anyone that is interested in attending the next ORUG meeting in Portland (Oregon), let me know and I will send you the address and other contact info. Oregon Remedy User Group Meeting September 22, 2009 AGENDA 8:00am - 8:30am: Check-in Continental Breakfast. 8:30am – 10:00 am:

Re: Help on the Status Reason field on the HPD:Help Desk form.

2009-09-08 Thread Thad K Esser
Enslin, You'll have to do a set fields to a temp field where 'Entry ID' = $Entry ID $ to get the old status reason, before you do your push. In ITSM 7.0.3, there are 31 temporary char fields already defined, named z1D Char1 through z1D Char31 that you can use. They aren't in any view, but they

Re: Help on the Status Reason field on the HPD:Help Desk form.

2009-09-08 Thread Thad K Esser
:) -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 11:21 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Help on the Status Reason field on the HPD:Help Desk form. Enslin, You'll have

Updating data in Tasks from Incident

2009-09-02 Thread Thad K Esser
ARS 7.1, ITSM 7.0.3 I've integrated TMS with Incident (so that an incident auto-generates tasks based on templates) and everything is working swimmingly. What I would like to do now, is build a generic task template for software deployment, and have the resulting task gets its product

Re: ITSM 7 Incident Templates

2009-09-02 Thread Thad K Esser
Does/do your user/users have Task Viewer or Task User permissions? Thad Esser Remedy Developer Now... Just where did I put that cheese...? | | From: | |

Re: Menu Access

2009-09-01 Thread Thad K Esser
Take a look at the Form Action reserved fields section of the Form and Application Objects document (pages 317/318). You can add these fields to your form via the Admin tool. With your form open, select Form Form Action Fields (its the bottom item on the menu), then select the fields you want

Re: Diary Field Issue - Attention - Remedy Product Defect.

2009-09-01 Thread Thad K Esser
Patrick, I am on 7.1 patch 5 (on AIX, Oracle 10). In some simple testing (In all tests, the diary field has previous values): Case 1 - In the user tool, put a space in a diary field and save. Result: Diary field contents retained. Case 2 - Use a filter push action to push a space to a diary

Re: Menu Access

2009-09-01 Thread Thad K Esser
even if they are disabled as menu items in the view? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:31 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Menu Access Take a look

Re: How to hunt down the domain of the e-mail?

2009-08-28 Thread Thad K Esser
is replacing the domain of the addressee, before puting the e- mail address into the AR System Messages form? Well, it's a rather a rethorical question here. Apparently it is. Thanks, Mark On 27 Aug., 20:43, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: If you are using ITSM, check the people record

Re: How to hunt down the domain of the e-mail?

2009-08-27 Thread Thad K Esser
If you are using ITSM, check the people record. In older versions some emails were sent using the email address from SHR:People and some were sent from the User form. The data was supposed to stay in synch, but occasionally it wouldn't be. I don't think that issue exists in 7.0.3 with the

Compatible Java versions on AIX?

2009-08-16 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, Today, our unix admins went to do an OS upgrade on our AR server from AIX 5.3 ML6, to ML9. This also upgraded the installed version of java from 1.5.0 SR6b to SR7. No ARS configuration changes were made. During Remedy startup, we got two errors: Error: Port Library failed to initialize

Wolfram Alpha (Caution: nerd alert!)

2009-08-13 Thread Thad K Esser
The other day I was reading about Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com) and one of the things you can use it for is to compute truth tables. Naturally, I immediately thought about how that could be used for ARS development and evaluating Run-If qualifications. It seems you can actually

Re: Handle the error, but still cancel the transaction

2009-08-07 Thread Thad K Esser
I see you have it working the way you want, which is great. From a purely academic standpoint, I'm curious if the Application-Release-Pending run process command would have helped at all? I'm not familiar with the nuances of using it, but from the help files it seems like a possibility. Thad

Re: ITSM 7.1, Incident form, dialogs, and hidden menu bar menus

2009-07-31 Thread Thad K Esser
Rick, There are several places in the ITSM 7.0.3 Suite where they use the special run process PERFORM-ACTION-ACTIVE-LINK 1 fieldid to trigger workflow that is tied to buttons that are hidden or otherwise inaccessible to the user. In the case of the 'z3Btn Select Template' button, look at the

Re: Blocking request for editing by another user

2009-07-29 Thread Thad K Esser
Misi has something as well. http://www.rrr.se/en/products/rrrlock.html There's a flowchart there that will give you the general idea. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky? -

Re: User sees unaligned fields

2009-07-29 Thread Thad K Esser
I've also seen this issue caused by the user having their Windows DPI settings set to Large Size. From the user's desktop, single-right-click on any blank spot. Single-left-click on Properties Single-left-click on Settings Single-left-click on Advanced Single-left-click on General tab If the DPI

Re: Print Field and Fields

2009-07-23 Thread Thad K Esser
This is for Oracle. Adjust your where clause as desired (to limit to a particular form add s.name = 'HPD:Help Desk'). select s.name, f.fieldid, f.fieldname, f.foption, s.schematype from arschema s, field f where s.schemaid = f.schemaid and f.foption != 4 and s.schematype = 1 order by 1

Re: Selecting a row in a table with an AL

2009-07-14 Thread Thad K Esser
Lyle, Given your version number, have you looked at the Advanced properties of your table field. From the Form and Application Objects manual, around page 330: - Initial Row Selection (Describes what happens the first time the list view table, tree view table, or results list field is

Re: Remedy Technical Support Options. Any opinions?

2009-07-14 Thread Thad K Esser
Thanks for the responses everyone, that helps. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky? - Pink Floyd | | From: | |

Re: Remedy Technical Support Options. Any opinions?

2009-07-13 Thread Thad K Esser
Rabi, I'm just getting back from a few days off, but would be interested in any responses you got off-list. I have a nagging feeling that this is a stupid questions, but is TuringSMI still around as an option? I can't seem to get their website for some reason (www.turingsmi.com doesn't work,

Re: rrrChive and ITSM

2009-07-05 Thread Thad K Esser
From: Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com

rrrChive and ITSM

2009-07-04 Thread Thad K Esser
I just recently started looking at the rrrChive tool, and it looks pretty handy. I was considering using it to move some ITSM data, that the Data Management Tool doesn't move, from one server to another. The target server is a brand new install and basically only has out of the box sample data.

Re: Pragmatically Sorting A Table Field

2009-07-02 Thread Thad K Esser
Frank, I think using a field to store the sort order will get you where you want. Add the 'SortOrder' field to the table sort as the first sort item, followed by whatever other fields you would normally want to sort by. Then, if you were to set the sort order on all the records to the same value,

Re: Reservation/Scheduling in ARS

2009-06-30 Thread Thad K Esser
I'm not sure what all you need help with, but testing for overlapping ranges is deceptively simple. Let's say you have two ranges (dates in this case), and have already ensured that the starts are less than the ends. Start1 - End1 Start2 - End2 Then, you can test if they overlap with

Re: Display URL as hyperlink in Mid-Tier just as in Windows client

2009-06-29 Thread Thad K Esser
We just had the same question a few weeks ago. BMC has a kb article on it (KM-00012134) that reads: This is a limitation of HTML code in and of itself for form input tags of text and textarea. These types of fields do not allow for active hyperlinks to be displayed. The fields would

Re: Creating the two tables with the add/remove buttons in between to swap data between tables effect

2009-06-08 Thread Thad K Esser
Curt, You have two tables: Table A is on the left, with A.Value referring to what's showing in the list. Table B is on the right, with B.Value as the values. Create an unlimited length, temporary character field (zTmpChar). Any time Table B gets changed (don't forget window open if

Re: Creating the two tables with the add/remove buttons in between to swap data between tables effect

2009-06-08 Thread Thad K Esser
I agree that InstanceIDs would be better, however my code wouldn't break unless the values themselves had semi-colons in them. ;eBiz; wouldn't overlap ;eBiz eCommerce; (note the semicolons at the beginning and ending of each value in the list - as well the role they play in the qualification).

Re: Supported Versions / FD / Patches

2009-05-28 Thread Thad K Esser
27, 2009 at 3:42 PM, patrick zandi remedy...@gmail.com wrote: That looks like it.. It is all that fancy talk, vice something a little straighter.. for us simple folk  =8 - ) Thank you! On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: Pat, I

Re: Supported Versions / FD / Patches

2009-05-27 Thread Thad K Esser
Pat, I was of the same understanding as you, until just now. After re-reading the FD patch 2 document, I don't think its referring to the CMDB. By deploying patch 1.6.00.02, you are not able to upgrade to BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (BMC Atrium Discovery) 7.5.00

Re: CMDB and Discovery

2009-05-20 Thread Thad K Esser
A hefty dose of patience will come in handy. :-) You said other than obvious, but I'll offer this anyway. If you are planning for resources, TD needs a separate database/instance from the arserver. Also, if you are planning on using any of the CDM extensions and have the Minimum API version

Re: Escalation Timeline

2009-05-13 Thread Thad K Esser
David, A couple of years ago Geoff Endresen posted the following that might help: - Subject: cool awk script to find out how late escalations are running Body: I don't know why it took me more than 10 years to figure out this one. The escalation log

Group Assignment in ITSM 7.0.3

2009-05-07 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, I had a question about group assignment in ITSM 7.0.3 (patch 9). One of my co-workers noticed that you can create a routing order (say for operation categorization) where you specify a Tier 2, and then null out Tier 1. So for example: Tier 1 = Null (normal values would be like add,

Re: Group Assignment in ITSM 7.0.3

2009-05-07 Thread Thad K Esser
at 12:43 PM, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: Hello, I had a question about group assignment in ITSM 7.0.3 (patch 9).  One of my co-workers noticed that you can create a routing order (say for operation categorization) where you specify a Tier 2, and then null out Tier 1.  So

Re: Sending Remedy Alerts To A Lotus Sametime Chat

2009-04-30 Thread Thad K Esser
) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: Has anyone ever tried, successfully or not, to get Remedy to send alerts to a Lotus Sametime chat or announcement? My googling

Re: Sending Remedy Alerts To A Lotus Sametime Chat

2009-04-30 Thread Thad K Esser
I bet you could pay a java person to put something like that together...:) -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:21 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject

Sending Remedy Alerts To A Lotus Sametime Chat

2009-04-29 Thread Thad K Esser
Has anyone ever tried, successfully or not, to get Remedy to send alerts to a Lotus Sametime chat or announcement? My googling and arslist archive searches aren't proving very fruitful. My Notes knowledge is only as a user, so even some better search terms would help. ARS 7.1 Lotus Notes 8

Re: Sending Remedy Alerts To A Lotus Sametime Chat

2009-04-29 Thread Thad K Esser
at 1:57 PM, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: Has anyone ever tried, successfully or not, to get Remedy to send alerts to a Lotus Sametime chat or announcement? My googling and arslist archive searches aren't proving very fruitful. My Notes knowledge is only as a user, so even some

Re: Sending Remedy Alerts To A Lotus Sametime Chat

2009-04-29 Thread Thad K Esser
From:Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Approval Server Version Information

2009-04-27 Thread Thad K Esser
I just worked through an issue where the approval server patch installer updated the SHARE:Application Properties form to reflect the latest patch, but did NOT put the correct files in place. Look in ar.conf to verify the path to the approval server, then run strings arapprove.a | grep -i version

Re: OT-Domain Name Change

2009-04-17 Thread Thad K Esser
Maybe using IP-Name would help accommodate the new domain without having to change your server name? From the configuring guide: - IP-Name A parameter used to specify that a server has multiple names. The parameter can appear in the ar.conf (ar.cfg) file more than one time. When checking

Re: Wrap table column headings using custom style sheet

2009-04-13 Thread Thad K Esser
You didn't specify a version, but in 7.1, on the Display Properties tab for a column, there is a Wrap Text check box just below the column width setting. Now if I could just get the other columns to all align to the top of the cell... :-) Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations,

Re: Wrap table column headings using custom style sheet

2009-04-13 Thread Thad K Esser
of the table, not the heading. I think you will need a custom css file to do this. Unfortunately I have not had much luck using custom css files myself. James On Apr 13, 2:33 pm, Thad K Esser tkes...@regence.com wrote: You didn't specify a version, but in 7.1, on the Display Properties tab for a column

Re: Web Services Error

2009-03-27 Thread Thad K Esser
Sharon, While not exactly the same issue, I recently had to set up ARS (7.1p6) to consume a web service and was having trouble getting the admin tool to recognize the WSDL. Turns out I had to configure the admin tool (and the server) to use a proxy server, because of the

Re: how to insert animated images in remedy

2009-03-16 Thread Thad K Esser
Not quite the same, but... On ARS 7.1, ITSM 7.0.3, I've added an animated gif to my people profile, and it displays fine in the user tool. The file size had to be small, but that's a limitation of the attachment field, not the view field. Granted, its not a button, but view fields will display

Re: $PROCESS$ Application-Confirm-Group 1 returns 0 when run as AR_ESCALATOR / CTM:People Integration

2009-03-01 Thread Thad K Esser
is. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:50 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: $PROCESS$ Application-Confirm-Group 1 returns 0 when run as AR_ESCALATOR / CTM:People

$PROCESS$ Application-Confirm-Group 1 returns 0 when run as AR_ESCALATOR / CTM:People Integration

2009-02-28 Thread Thad K Esser
Hello, I learned something new today that seemed kind of nuanced, so I thought I'd share. Running a $PROCESS$ Application-Confirm-Group 1 returns 0 when run as AR_ESCALATOR. The manuals say that AR_ESCALATOR runs with Administrator permissions, so I would have expected this run process to

Indexes on DSL (was Re: Archiving SLM:Measurement)

2008-12-22 Thread Thad K Esser
Phil, Any chance you have the list of indexes you added to the DSL or other tuning work you did for it? My first data import was pretty painful. If not, I can work through it, but thought if you had a list handy, it'd save me some time. Thanks in advance, Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue

Re: Performance Issue In Archiving the data

2008-12-11 Thread Thad K Esser
Hi. Your commas are confusing... do you have 3.4 million incident records or 34 million to archive? Anyway, if you are archiving 50,000 incidents every day, but adding 30,000, your net archiving is 20,000. Dividing it out: 34,000,000/20,000 = 1700 days (4.7 years, rounded and not

Re: 7.1 armonitor.conf: Does java based plugin server make the arplugin unnecessary??

2008-12-10 Thread Thad K Esser
This was BMC Support's answer in October 2007: So I've confirmed that right now there aren?t any plugins being loaded by the Java plugin server that Support is aware of, and unless you?ve planned to write a custom Java plugin, you probably don?t need to run it. You can comment out

fixSIMAfterITSM (cmdbdriver script)

2008-12-05 Thread Thad K Esser
If anyone has ever successfully used the fixSIMAfterITSM cmdbdriver script, can you shoot me an email please? It doesn't look like its working, but then I'm not 100% sure what it should look like. Thanks, Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.--

Re: ITSM 7 Patch 009

2008-12-04 Thread Thad K Esser
I think they are getting ahead of themselves: -- Restoring web services (page 17) If you are using web services, this patch overwrites the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) URL for each web service that is packaged with this patch. The WSDL URL is specified on the Web Services tab of the

Re: ITSM 7 Operational Categorizations

2008-11-07 Thread Thad K Esser
Perhaps a wiki. Something like Axton's http://www.arswiki.org/ Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Meyer, Jennifer L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 11/07/2008

Re: OT - Wednesday humour

2008-10-15 Thread Thad K Esser
Apparently the hotel the joke resides in was under construction in 2007. Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Carey Matthew Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: escalation

2008-10-11 Thread Thad K Esser
At the risk of asking the obvious (I haven't followed this thread close enough and when I looked, didn't find that this had been mentioned), are there any records in the +QTS-HPD:Template form? The bit of log that you posted says the escalation isn't finding any records that match the

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