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Remedyforce 19.02 Just Released

I’ve been waiting for this one! I’ve been participating in the beta cycle of Remedyforce Summer 2019, also known as 19.02, and I like some of the new changes. Here’s my favorites list; which do you like? Support for Print and PDF options in Salesforce Lightning...

Who is using my licenses?

We’ve all been there. We’re trying to allocate fixed licenses – let’s say for Asset Management – and we’re told they are all in use. And our question is “Who the heck is using them?” Turns out there is an easy way to find this out. First, open the User form. I...

Remedyforce 19.01 Updates

I was politely reminded that I hadn’t done a blog post in way too long. Things have been so busy here at RightStar that it just dropped off my radar! So, while 19.01 has been out for quite a while, I thought I’d discuss some of the new features that came with it, in...

Tracking software licenses in Remedyforce CMDB

 We had a customer who wanted a simple way to track software licenses. He didn’t want to use a discovery tool; just wanted to track who is using what. Because there was no discovery tool, we suggested a method that uses one record to represent the software (instead of...

Reporting on multi-level categories

First, I want to define the problem we need to solve. We had a customer who had a multi-level category tree- more than two levels. Some of her categories were three levels deep, some four, and some five. Something like this:     Now of course, this isn’t a...

Dependent Picklists in Self-Service

In Winter, 2018, one new feature was being able to use Dependent Picklists in Self-Service. For me, it was a bit of a head-scratcher to figure out how to do it, so I thought I’d write it up. First, let’s look at the result. When you put a dependent picklist into...