One way to handle this kind of thing is to not track the location as a property 
of the incident itself and look at the location of the affected user instead.

For example, if Bob has  User.Country = United States and he is the affected 
user then you can just look at his location to decide what the "location" of 
the incident is.  Sure, people travel internationally and such but this should 
cover 99% of the cases.

You can still query or report on incidents by country/region - you just have to 
traverse the assigned to relationship and look at the Country property on the 
user object.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Daniel Ruiz
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 11:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [servman] RE: Incident classification category

my apologies for not including the prefix

________________________________
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Incident classification category
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:19:18 +0000

I am working for a client that is going to implement SCSM globally and one of 
the questions/issues that came up is how would they classify incidents for 
hardware in the US vs. hardware incidents for Europe.

One way would be to create to Incident classification categories for the US and 
EUROPE but I am opposed to that method since it duplicates all the 
classification types and there are more than just 2 sites.  I am thinking that 
extending the Incident form to include a region drop down would work best that 
way the client could still report on their various global locations and 
determine volume of incident types.

Has anyone had to deal with this kind of scenario?



Danny




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