One of the hardest challenges with every customer who is new to the Patch Management feature of Client Management is when to schedule the patch window! Some customers already have this set in stone, and users are already used to required reboots due to applying...
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What is HR Case Anyway?
I know you’ve seen it referenced; you’ve gotten emails from us, RightStar Systems, as well as from BMC. But sometimes marketing can be a little vague; you might even have ignored it (but don’t tell our marketing team that!)So I thought I’d take this end-of-year time...
Customize How You Print Out Your Service Request
As you all know, there are a couple of print options available in the “Action” menu in a Remedyforce ticket. But that printout relies on the Remedyforce Incident Console version 1.0 Page Layout. Sometimes that isn’t going to get you what you need, particularly with...
Managing Large Numbers of Fields in Jira
As a Jira Admin, you may have run into the problem that you have been asked to create a project with a small number of Issue Types but lots and lots of fields that need to be captured. We see this often with Jira Service Desk projects, where there is a single Service...
How to set up Bulk Order in Remedy
There are a few steps to go through to set up bulk inventory, so it can be a bit confusing. But here we go! Step 1: Go to Administrator Console; Application Administration; Custom Configuration Add a product category for your bulk items. Select Foundation/Products /...
Building a Bucket Report
I had a customer who wanted a report that would show how long it took to close tickets by hours and days. For this, I used Buckets in reporting, which I had never used before, and I thought I’d share! First – here is the end result – isn’t it pretty? How did I get it?...
Setting up MFA on Salesforce/Remedyforce
Is anyone else feeling some anxiety over the upcoming move to requiring MFA for Salesforce logins? I was! So thought I’d finally see just how bad it is – and it’s not bad! This video from Salesforce covers it, and below I discuss what I did. - covers it, but...
How to set up Change Task Phasing in Remedy
If you are like many of our Remedy customers, you’ve been happily using Change Management with Tasks, but you don’t necessarily know all the possibilities within the module. And it’s been working well for you, but every now and then, you think, “I wish I could have a...
Remedyforce Winter 2021 is out!
It is out! Winter 2021 is now GA. As always, BMC will push the upgrade to your org; this release is scheduled to be pushed on April 9, 2021 (see the schedule here: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/REMF/Release+schedules ). But of course, you can always...
Important – Deprecation of Flash – Remedy
BY ANNE BROCK, RIGHTSTAR Just a reminder – Adobe has announced the end of development and distribution of Adobe Flash Player by the end of 2020. BMC has been removing Flash-dependent features in its Remedy suite of products; but there were a few areas left. These are...