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Abydos acquired by BMC

Posted on by Jose Huerta in News | 2 Comments

One of the bests Remedy’s third party developer, Abydos, has been recently acquired by BMC. Great news for ITSM customers, since it seems that the will receive Abydos application with their current license. But Abydos’ applications are clearly an add-on. So what will do BMC in the future? Provide them as a separate app? Integrate them? Let’s see…

Complex object searches

Posted on by Jose Huerta in Developing solutions | Leave a comment

Sometimes, when using the Remedy Developer Studio, you need to locate some object. The search capabilities of Remedy Developer Studio are very constrained and sometimes you are forced to review a high number of objects to find the correct one. In this post I will show you an alternative method to find objects.

Adding custom permission groups to ITSM foundation

Posted on by Jose Huerta in Developing solutions, Featured, Tricks | 8 Comments

When starting to customize ITSM applications is easy to arrive at one point where it is important to differentiate between users, for privileges or different workflow behavior. Two main approaches appear: to use support groups or ARS permission groups. The first solution is easy to administrate from Contact Management forms, but the groups appears in the menu fields (like the incident’s assigned group), which can be undesirable. Second solution provide you more control, but force your administration to be done at the User …

Real funny stories

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Today’s post is different. I will tell you a set of real stories that some colleagues told me in the past. But these stories are not about Remedy development, but form IT support activity. You never know what a user can ask you or do. Today, two of them…

BMC and dirty programming

Posted on by Jose Huerta in Remedy Comments | 4 Comments

It’s time for an “author’s comment”. Today’s comment verses about BMC’s programming style. I can define this style in one word: dirty. It can seem aggressive for me to qualify it in that way, but I think that I’m giving an objective description. Why I’m so sharp and categorical? continue reading to see why…