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20.08.03 patch defects for editorial review


Component

Description

Corrected in

Affected version

Defect ID

Incidents and work orders

Symptom: The email screen hangs after you add recipients and click the send button.

Scope: You try to send an email to multiple recipients from an incident or a work order ticket.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-58448

Attachments

Symptom: An internal server error is displayed.

Scope: You try to add an attachment that contains Chinese characters in its name to incident, work order, or change request tickets.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-63581

People profile

Symptom: The value in the Region and Site Group fields is NULL.

Scope: You create a custom field in CTM:People form and then add this custom field to Person Profile in Screen Configuration. Now edit the profile, update the custom field, and save changes. Refresh the CTM:People record.

20.08.03

20.02

DRSMX-63686

Smart Record

Symptom: The following error is displayed:

ARException: ERROR (45917): ; In order to apply a template to an incident, please enter a template name and press "Enter" on Template field to select a template.

 Scope: You select a user in Smart Recorder, enter a few terms to describe the issue, and then select a template from the list of suggested resources.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-64156

Incident

Symptom: The following error message is displayed  when you create an incident: 

NullPointerException: causal CI recon ID could not be null

Scope: By using Screen Configuration, if the Affected Asset Widget is removed and the fields that were part of the widget are added on the Incident view.

20.08.03

20.02

DRSMX-64002

Known error

Symptom: In Smart IT, corrected Known errors don't get closed automatically.

20.08.03

20.02

DRSMX-63687

Service request

Symptom: The fields in the Required question SRD are displayed in HTML tags as shown in the following example:

Request Type<span class="required">*</span> :
Service Request Title<span class="required">*</span> :

Scope: By using Request Entry Console in ITSM, you create a service request that has Required questions, and open the same service request in Smart IT.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-63667

Knowledge Article

Symptom: You are unable to view attachments in Knowledge articles.

Scope: When you log in with knowledge viewer permission and want to view a knowledge article with attachments.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-63665

Knowledge Article

Symptom: Unable to see expanded content of Knowledge articles in Smart IT.

Scope: When you create knowledge articles with expandable sections in ITSM and want to view the same article in Smart IT.

Important

Smart IT displays all content in expanded format as Smart IT does not support expand/collapse action for Knowledge articles.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-63583

BMC Service Request Management

Symptom: You get the following error message:
Error: ARERR 382 The value(s) for this entry violate a unique index that has been defined for this form.

Scope: You import the Entitlement groups and group users that have same names on both, the source and the destination servers.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-64163

Smart Reporting

Symptom: You get the Null Pointer Exception and the following error message:
Error retrieving results
An error occurred retrieving the results from the database.
Please check the SQL syntax and try again.

Scope: You run a report query in which the simple SQL statement has a nested case statement with the division operator.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-59314

Smart Reporting

Symptom: Report does not show any data.

Scope: You create a report and apply the Group Data function on it.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-63823

Smart Reporting

Symptom: ARJDBC goes into an infinite recursion and you get the following error message in the catalina.out file:

Terminating Database connection.

Scope: You run a report query that has duplicate fields in the SELECT statement and a join between the forms.

20.08.03

20.08

DRSMX-64186

AR System Server

Symptom: The view information is corrupt.

Scope: Import a form overlay that adds value to a selection field.

20.08.03

20.08.02,
20.08.01,
20.02.02,
20.02.01

DRD21-8238

 

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