Issues tables
Known and corrected BMC Helix Digital Workplace Basic product issues
The following table also applies to BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced.
Component | Description | Status | Found in | Defect ID |
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Service Level Agreement settings | In the Service Level Agreement settings, users with the catalog administrator role can't enable the Show to requestors toggle. Although the toggle appears to be switched on during the action, the change is not saved. Workaround: To enable the Show to requestors toggle, the action must be performed by a user with Administrator permissions. | Fixed in 25.3.01 | 25.3.00 | DRMY1-33176 |
Service Catalog Curator | While creating a service by using the Service Catalog Curator, the catalog administrator might encounter the following error after the final confirmation: Workaround:
To download the PDF containing the prompt, click Service Catalog Curator Workaround prompt. | Open | 25.3.00 | DRIIT-79804 |
Service Catalog Curator | If RegEx for any question contains special characters, such as @, +, *, [, ], the following issue occurs: The catalog administrator might experience display or formatting issues, such as misaligned columns or missing characters, in the service summary returned by the Service Catalog Curator. | Open | 25.3.00 | DRIIT-79804 |
Service Catalog Curator | If a question label or description contains a pipe symbol, the following issues might occur:
| Open | 25.3.00 | DRIIT-79804 |
Service Catalog Curator | While creating a service, when a catalog administrator sets payment type as Recurring and then changes the price value, the following issue occurs: The payment type is not retained as Recurring and gets automatically changed to Once. | Open | 25.3.00 | DRIIT-79804 |
Service Catalog Curator | When a catalog administrator attempts to set the date-time field value to today's or tomorrow's date for a service, the following issue occurs: Workaround: It is recommended to verify the date before saving the service. | Open | 25.3.00 | DRIIT-79804 |
Service Catalog Curator | If a service creation fails due to a questionnaire failure and the catalog administrator tries to recreate the service using the same service details in the Service Catalog Creator, the following issue occurs intermittently: Workaround:
To download the PDF containing the prompt, click Service Catalog Curator Workaround prompt. | Open | 25.3.00 | DRIIT-79804 |
BMC HelixGPT | When you submit comments through Employee Navigator chat on Apple iOS devices, the color picker in the RTF editor does not appear when tapping the color buttons. As a result, you are unable to use all the color text formatting options for iPhone users. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 25.3.00 | DRIIT-79023 |
BMC HelixGPT | When a user raises a service request through BMC HelixGPT and the skill configuration includes an invalid username in the serviceRequestSummarizerUser parameter the following issue occurs: The system fails to add chat summary and transcript comments to the service request, even if the respective parameters are enabled. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 25.3.00 | DRM88-5126 |
Service Requests | If any associated service request entity points to a BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB) asset that is removed from BMC Helix Digital Workplace configuration, the following issue occurs: Service requests reports display No Results in BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.04 | DRMY1-32366 |
Email notification | End users receive multiple emails when closing a request that contains two or more work orders. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.02 | DRMY1-32214 |
Service Requests | An on-behalf-of user cannot see the Request Again button even when the Enhanced OBO requester privileges are enabled for the user. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.02 | DRMY1-31789 |
Localization | Italian locale users observe the same Italian translation "In attesa" for both Pending and On hold event filter values. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.03 | DRIIT-78284 |
Localization | All available languages are shown under User Preferences > Email Notification Language, even after the administrator has selected the preferred languages from the administrator console. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 25.1.01 | DRIIT-76967 |
Service Requests | When end users reply to an email notification after submitting a service request with an inline image (RTF) in the email body, the following issue occurs: The image is added as a file attachment on the My Activity page instead of being displayed inline in the Comment section. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.04 | DRMY1-31853 |
Service Catalog Curator | If catalog administrators create two Section type questions in the same prompt, the service either displays only one section-type question with a different label or no section-type questions at all. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 25.3.00 | DRIIT-79406 |
Localization | When a localized service request is completed and the survey email notification is sent, the service name and survey questions in the email are in the user locale instead of the notification locale. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 25.1.00 | DRMY1-32732 |
BMC HelixGPT | End users are unable to upload images in Employee Navigator and the following error is displayed: Workaround: As an administrator, add the following parameters to the Default config field in the model configuration: | Open | 25.2.00 | DRM88-4510 |
BMC HelixGPT | End users are unable to view feedback buttons for certain Employee Navigator responses when skills configured by using an earlier version of BMC HelixGPT are used with the current version of BMC HelixGPT. | Fixed in 25.2.00 | 25.2.00 | DRIIT-76514 |
BMC HelixGPT | When end users try to attach a file or an image in BMC HelixGPT, an error message is displayed that multiple files exceed the maximum file size limit. Workaround: The file size of the single file exceeds the maximum limit. Attach a file size within the maximum size limit. | Open | 25.1.00 | DRIIT-74682 |
BMC HelixGPT | When users click all source links under the BMC HelixGPTchat response for service requests, only the first tab opens the intended service request; the others redirect to the My Activity Page. Workaround: Pause between visiting each browser tab to load requests. | Open | 25.1.00 | DRIIT-74061 |
BMC HelixGPT localization in BMC Helix Digital Workplace | When responding to a query in a user's preferred language, BMC HelixGPT doesn't translate source article links to that language. | Open | 23.3.03 | DRM88-1881 |
Service requests | When a user who is entitled to more than 50 services tries to add a comment on a service beyond the first 50 listed services, the comment is not added, and the following error is displayed. User <user_name> doesn't have access to the mentioned service. | Fixed in 25.2.00 | 23.3.03 | DRIIT-75115 |
Service requests | When a user submits a service request on behalf of another user and enters a two-word first name in the Customer Full Name field, a work order is created. However, the customer name on the work order incorrectly shows the name of the Requested-by user instead of the user for whom the service is submitted. | Fixed in 25.2.00 | 20.02.03 | DRMY1-31792 |
Email notification | Emails sent by using the BMC Helix Digital Workplace Send Email workflow contain incorrect spacing, resulting in formatting issues in the email received by end users. | Fixed in 25.2.00 | 23.3.03 | DRMY1-31807 |
Email notification | Users might not receive all email notifications regarding their submitted requests or comments on these requests. This issue occurs when both the following conditions are true:
| Fixed in 25.1.00 | 21.3.00, 22.1.07, 23.3.00, 23.3.01, 23.3.02, 23.3.03, 23.3.04 | DRIIT-73118 |
Email notification | Email notifications are not sent because the mail server takes too long to respond, and a timeout exception is thrown. | Fixed in 25.1.00 | 23.3.03 | DRIIT-74382 |
Localization | When users with the German locale perform a search, the system displays an inconsistent translation for the Request string in the note on the user interface, and it does not match the localized term displayed on the tab. | Fixed in 25.1.00 | 23.3.03 | DRIIT-74726 |
Localization | When users with the German locale set notification preferences for their requests in the end-user console, the system displays an incorrect translation for the Shared requests string. | Fixed in 25.1.00 | 23.3.01 | DRIIT-73031 |
Localization | When users with a non-English locale select a request to view its details, the Fulfillment table on the Details page does not display the localized term according to the user's locale for the Waiting for Approval status. | Fixed in 25.1.00 | 23.3.02, 23.3.04 | DRIIT-73670 |
Service requests | In the Active events section, the service request shows the status as Initiated. However, when the service is opened, the status is not updated and continues to display as In progress. This issue occurs when Service Request Definitions (SRDs) from BMC Service Request Management are imported to BMC Helix Digital Workplace , and then such service is submitted and moved to Initiated status in the BMC Service Request Management. | Open | 23.3.03 | DRIIT-70647
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BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced product issues
Component or feature | Description | Status | Found in | Defect ID |
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Knowledge Articles | When users open knowledge article details page via URL containing an article reference link or an anchor link to a specific part of that knowledge article, the following issue occurs: The page does not automatically scroll to the appropriate section upon page load or reload. Instead, the user remains at the beginning of the article. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.02 | DRIIT-77921 |
Studio pages | When administrators add a markdown link containing multiple underscores to a content block on a Studio page, the link breaks upon opening because the underscores are being incorrectly rendered as <em> tags. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.03 | DRIIT-77302 |
Studio pages | An Application Page link configured in a custom studio page incorrectly redirects users to the Link URL defined within the Application Page instead of the Application Page itself. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.03 | DRIIT-74876 |
Studio pages | After you upgrade to version 25.1.01, the studio pages that had search sources as null and were created in older versions of BMC Helix Digital Workplace Studio might appear blank or not load. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 25.1.02 | DRIIT-77261 |
Search views | When administrators configure searches for only requests and/or approvals, the system still includes results from all other sources that were not selected. As a result, end users see requests, approvals, as well as other sources in the search results under the All tab. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.03 | DRIIT-77268 |
Connector | If an integration service connector that is used to retrieve cache data values is missing or disconnected when a user attempts to access BMC Helix Digital Workplace, the following issue occurs: User cache data, such as user groups, might fail to be retrieved, resulting in a loss of cache data. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 25.2.00 | DRMY1-32862 |
Asset Groups | When an asset Group with conditions is exported and then imported in another environment, it gets imported without the conditions. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.03 | DRMY1-32785 |
Connector | End users are unable to view services from BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB) in the lookup when attempting to assign such service to a BMC Helix Digital Workplace service. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.04 | DRMY1-32610 |
Questionnaire | Catalog administrators are unable to add answers for read-only questions by using API calls, even when the Allow question values to be modified via API capability is enabled in BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog Questionnaire. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 22.1.06 | DRMY1-29222 |
Location | BMC Helix Digital Workplace administrators encounter a Time out error message when trying to view the location assets in Administrator console. This issue occurs if more than 2000 assets are being imported by using a CSV file. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 25.2.00 | DRIIT-77014 |
Connector | When BMC Helix Digital Workplace is unable to identify the connector, the connectors are shown with a Missing status, and end users encounter the following error: "Message not found, [bundleId = myit-sb, messageNum = 1]; {"messageType":"ERROR","messageText":"Connector does not support CustomCall requests"} | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 23.3.03 | DRMY1-30842 |
External link | When you upgrade to version 25.2 from version 23.3, the BMC Helix Digital Workplace service request page is not launched from BMC Helix ITSM:Smart IT. | Fixed in 25.3.00 | 25.2.0 | DRIIT-79390 |
Service request reports | BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog administrators are unable to scroll and view all the reports in Catalog > Service Requests > Reports tab when the selected date range of the report includes the requests raised by deleted users. | Open | 25.2.01 25.1.02 25.1.01 | DRMY1-32623 |
Search views | If a search view is configured to search specific sources such as approval and requests, when the end user attempts a search, the system searches through all the sources. It does not restrict the search to only the configured sources such as approval and requests. | Fixed in 25.2.01 | 25.1.00 | DRIIT-77657 |
Studio pages | When upgrading from version 25.1.00 to a later version, the studio pages that had search sources as null and were created in older versions of BMC Helix Digital Workplace Studio might appear blank or not load. | Fixed in 25.2.01 | 25.1.02 | DRIIT-77659 |
Guest portal questionnaire | When a user responds to a lookup question in the guest portal questionnaire during the request submission, a 403 error occurs, and the available options are not displayed. Workaround: Use the dropdown question in the Guest portal instead of the lookup question. | Open | 25.2.00 | DRIIT-77280 |
Guest portal user interface | When a session times out, the faded loading indicator covers the session timeout window, making it impossible for users to click the Sign In button. Workaround: Refresh the Guest portal page. | Open | 25.2.00 | DRIIT-76982 |
Guest portal configuration | When an administrator configures a forbidden URL or a non-existing site, an invalid subtenant with a null guest user is created, despite the configuration error. Workaround: Remove the Guest portal configuration and re-configure the Guest portal with a valid URL. | Open | 25.2.00 | DRIIT-76451 |
Search views | When an administrator creates a Search view, it is automatically added to the navigation bar. This behavior occurs only for the new subtenant, or new tenant when it is a fresh installation before the first time that the settings are saved for Navigation Manager. Workaround: Control the Search view visibility in the admin console> Configuration > Navigation Manager > Navigation Builder > Search views section | Open | 25.2.00 | DRIIT-77006 |
Questionnaire | When end users enter a non-integer value in a text field, the following error message is displayed: | Open | 25.2.00, | DRMY1-32198 |
Rebranding tool | Rebranding settings configured by the administrator in the POC environment are not reflected in the production environment. | Open | 25.2.00 | DRIIT-76965 |
Approvals | When users submit change request approvals by entering a custom value in the Impact field instead of the out-of-the-box value, approvers cannot see these change request approvals on their My Activity page. | Fixed in 25.1.00 | 23.3.00 | DRIIT-73887 |
User Interface | While filling out a questionnaire during a request submission, the user selects an option, but the radio button does not properly display the user's selection. This issue occurs when both the following conditions are true:
| Fixed in 25.1.00 | 23.3.01, 23.3.02 | DRMY1-30828 |
Localization | When a catalog service has multiple translations available but doesn't have the default English translation, the user interface can display different translated terms from the enabled locales instead of showing the default locale text for submitted service requests. Workaround: Add the default English translation for the impacted service. | Open
| 22.1.00 | DRMY1-30431
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User Interface | When catalog administrators access the Questionnaire Library and view the list of workflows, table cells do not display an overflow box that shows the complete text content. This issue occurs when the width of the cell text exactly matches the width of the cell. | Fixed in 25.1.00 | 23.3.01 | DRMY1-31396 |
Questionnaire | While submitting a request, users see time values displayed in two different formats within the same table in a questionnaire. This issue occurs when both the following conditions are true:
| Fixed in 25.1.00 | 23.3.03 | DRIIT-74910 |
User Interface | On the end-user console, the content blocks do not display complex content properly, showing squared corners. This issue occurs when both the following conditions are true:
| Open | 25.1.00 | DRIIT-74458
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SRD to BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog migration utility | When the BMC Helix ITSM connector points to an environment that does not have the SRD or multiple connectors that point to different BMC Helix ITSM instances, the precheck for some SRDs fails, even though the precheck on these SRDs was successful. The following error message is displayed: | Open | 23.3.03 | TOOL-686 |
Studio pages | While configuring the component properties of the studio page, when administrators try to select a skill for the HelixGPT skill field, those who do not have rights for HGM Client Persona receive the following error: | Open | 23.3.00 | DRIIT-65359 |
Workflow designer | The Date field value is converted to the incorrect value—{"value":2458536}. This issue occurs when the Date field data is sent through BMC Helix ITSM or by using the Build Input Set process activity with the following parameters:
| Open | 19.08, 19.11, 20.02 | DRMY1-17579 |
Service Request Definitions (SRDs) | In SRDs imported from BMC Service Request Management, not all list options defined for the static menu questions are imported. This issue occurs when the ChoiceInteger field is set to the same value for all the defined list options. | Open | 23.3.00, 22.1.00, 21.3.00, 20.08.00, 20.02.03 | DRMY1-28603 |
Catalog | When catalog administrators import services and translation in the BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog, the values of the alternateText and source fields for the service profile are not imported or exported for service revision translations. | Open | 23.3.02, 23.3.03 | DRMY1-30227
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Import | During the import process in BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog, the system does not create imported categories with the same name as existing categories if they exist in other branches of the hierarchy and are not selected for targeted services. | Fixed in 25.1.00 | 23.3.01 | DRMY1-30371 |
User Interface | The image for the Large (Hero) Banner does not completely fill the banner area, displaying empty spaces. Workaround: Upload an image for a Large (Hero) Banner with a recommended aspect ratio of 4.24:1 and a minimum width of 1540px. For example, an image size of 1548px x 365px. | Open | 23.3.04, 25.1.00 | DRIIT-75380 |