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AR System Remedy Change Tracking Tool

April 9th, 2010

Thanks to PVB for this wonderful tool

What is AR System Change Tracking Tool?

AR System Change Tracking Tool will record all changes that are done to the Remedy applications.For ex, whenever a user creates a form/modifies a filter etc., the change information will be recorded in this tool.

This tool have been developed to address the following problems,

  • Currently we do not have a perfect mechanism to record all the changes.
  • Whenever multiple users are working on same application, it is very hard to find out who made the changes to the application objects.
  • No proper version tracking information in Remedy applications.
  • At the deployment time there is a possiblity that we might miss out some required workflows.

How to view the recorded information?

ARS Change Tracking tool comes with powerful reporting feature through which you can either execute the change details or download the details for version tracking purpose.

Please go through the user manual attached for the complete details about this tool.

Installation Steps:-

  1. Import the ARS-CTT-Def.def using AR Import feature in the admin tool.
  2. Import all the entries defined in ARS-Pilot-Entries.arx file using Remedy Tool.
  3. You need to enable the server events in the server in order to view the change logs. You can do this by navigating through, File->Server Information->Server Events Tab. Enable, Active Link, Field, Filter, Form, Escalation, View.
  4. Then the tool will start recording events starting from the time you have enabled the server events.
  5. Launch the ARS:CTT-Master form through the Remedy User tool for viewing the server events.

Mail author Vijay Bhaskar, at bhaskarvrips@gmail.com if you face any problems in installing this application.

Download it here!!

Beta release of ARSmarts Grapher

February 15th, 2010

Announcing the ‘ARSmarts Grapher’ public beta testing program

The ARSmarts Grapher module allows you to quickly generate a graphical representation of all relationships or data flow between the Forms of your AR System application.
The ‘Grapher’ module is completely integrated with the other popular ARSmarts functionalities. Using ARSmarts Navigator, open the objects of the Graph to check the details and further navigate your AR System workflow. Generate documentation for all the objects included in the Graph using ARSmarts Documenter.

The layout of the Graphs generated by ARSmarts can be entirely customized by moving the Forms to different locations, modifying the field orders, … You can also hide some Forms or Links so that the Graph focuses only on what you want to show.
Graphs can be printed from ARSmarts, or saved as images to be included in your regular documentation.

Register here to participate to the Beta Program (with Register being the Register button).

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