Setting up services

To enable users to interact with services, you can create actions and associate them with the various services. These actions can include URLs with troubleshooting or service documentation, and service requests to report an issue.

The following figure shows a single action associated with the VPN service. After an end user selects this action, the request form displays:

To receive notifications about changes to available service health items, end users can follow these services from the service profile page.

Video demonstration: Setting up services

The following video (4:49) demonstrates how you can set up services in BMC Digital Workplace.

https://youtu.be/cBa4uuR_wsA

Follow these steps to define the services and service actions with which BMC Digital Workplace users can interact.

• • Video demonstration: Setting up services
  • To add or edit a service
  • To create and edit service actions

• To add or edit a service
• To create and edit service actions

To add or edit a service

1. On the Services tab, click Service Availability. 
2. In the Service Availability pane, perform one of the following steps:
   • To add a new service, click Add. 
   • To change an existing service, select it in the services table.
3. In the services form, enter (or change) the name and description of the service in the Name and Description fields.
4. On the Main tab, enter or update information about the service. You can choose to filter services to find the service that you want to update.
   • Annotation: Add notes about the service
   • Enabled: Select this check box to make the service visible on client devices and available to users.
   • Auto follow: Select this check box to send notifications about this service automatically to client devices.
   • Profile Image: (optional) An image to use in the service's profile. The images must be 320x200 pixels, 640x400 pixels, or another size with the same aspect ratio. The profile image supports GIF, JPG, PNG, and BMP file types.
   • Status: Select one of the following options:
     • Manual: Manually configure the status of a given service. 

     • From linked service: Tie the status of the selected service to another service. The BMC TrueSight Operations Management integration will automatically update the status.

       A service can be in one of the following statuses: 

       • Available: The service is available.
       • Information: A special message or exception is associated with the service.
       • Performance issue: The service is available but is impacted by some performance errors.
       • Maintenance: The service is down or unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
       • Disruption: The service is unavailable.
5. On the Actions tab, add actions that clients can use for each service. 
   From the list of available actions, move the actions you want to the Selected Actions list. 
   On a service profile, URL actions are listed before request actions. 

6. On the Groups tab, add groups to and remove groups from the services.
   Depending on the provider you enabled in BMC Digital Workplace Admin console, the Groups tab contains a list of Remedy Action Request System (Remedy AR System) groups and LDAP groups. By default, the Group provider is enabled for Remedy AR System groups. You can associate groups to a Service. Users belonging to the associated groups auto-follow the service, even if they did not individually enable auto-follow for that Service.

   • Search for Groups enables you to filter the groups list to find the groups that you want to configure.
   • The first table shows a list of all groups (or your filtered list of all groups) that are available to you to add.
   • Selected Groups are the groups that have been added to this service.

   To set up groups through LDAP, see Integrating-BMC-Digital-Workplace-with-LDAP.

7. Click Save.

When you add services, they become available to end users on their My Stuff page. 

To create and edit service actions

1. On the Services tab, select ServiceActions.
2. Click Add. or select an existing service action.
3. In the Name field, enter the name of the action.
4. In the Type field, choose a type from the list:
   • Client side URL: Enter a URL in the URL field that appears. The user’s device executes the URL.
   • Default request: A default request opens for the user when the action is executed. This is the service request definition (SRD) assigned as the Default Service Request. See Setting-up-service-requests-through-BMC-Service-Request-Management.
   • Request: Click Select Request and select a request that you want to open for the user when the action is executed. (See Setting-up-service-requests-through-BMC-Service-Request-Management and Enabling-and-configuring-the-enhanced-catalog-for-BMC-Digital-Workplace.)
5. Click Save.

To localize actions, see Localizing-titles-and-messages.

• To add or edit a service
• To create and edit service actions