Category Archives: Views

Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 3: Creating Views by using Snippet Templates

VSAE offers multiple options to create views. You could use the View template or an empty Management Pack Fragment template. For this example however, I decided to use a snippet template to demonstrate how this can be used to create … Continue reading

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All My Active Work Items – a great solution

When you support multiple ITIL Processes with Service Manager, your Analysts may complain that they have to constantly navigate in the console to see the objects they are responsible for or they have to work with. This is indeed a … Continue reading

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News in SCSM12 (Beta) #7 – Connectors

To use Service Manager you first have to generate objects in the CMDB. To quickly fill the Configuration Database with lots of objects from good quality, SM12 offers different connectors. This concept is not new to SM12, but there are new … Continue reading

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Sample MP – Relation between classes, type projections, views and forms

Based on several requests, I created a sample MP that has a class definition with a relationship to another class, a type projection, a view that uses the type projection and a specific form for managing objects of this class. … Continue reading

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Make Service Manager Customer-aware – Part 2

A while ago I have written an article about customizing Service Manager to make it customer-aware. This was just a simple example of how to assign incidents to different customers. Because this article was (and still is) very popular, I … Continue reading

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Placing objects in the Service Manager console – wherever you want!

The Service Manager Console let’s you create different type of objects in different places. For instance you can create new folders under “Configuration Items” and then store your views in it. This is pretty cool, but unfortunately you cannot create new … Continue reading

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