Always Show "More History" in Helpdesk
Updated: 26 Dec 2007 | 4 comments
After upgrading Helpdesk Solution to the latest version (6.0.308), you may notice that a "More History" link is shown instead of the full history whenever you edit an incident that already contains more than one comment.
Even when you click on this link and then save the incident, the next incident you edit goes right back to only showing the "More History" link instead of the full history.
To always show "More History" when editing a ticket in Altiris Helpdesk, do the following:
- Turn off the "read-only" attribute on the file "C:\Program Files\Altiris\Helpdesk\AeXHD\templates\WorkItemEdi t.ascx" and open it up in a text editor for editing.
- In the LoadDataSources() subroutine, add the following line right before the call to BuildHistory():
- DataStore("history_limited") = "false"
Save the file and you're done. That's all there is to it.
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Is this the correct way to
Is this the correct way to implement this change? Will it be overwritten when we upgrade to the next version?
It probably will...
Yes, this change will probably be overwritten the next time you upgrade Helpdesk. However, unless Altiris makes the change in their production code, I don't know of any better way to do this.
As an aside, I got the idea of editing template files from Altiris itself (https://kb.altiris.com/display/1n/kb/article.asp?aid...).
small little things...
it's these small little things that make the difference. Too bad you can't let the users set it on a individual basis as a user prefernce as to if they want that to show or not.
I would do this change by
I would do this change by making a 'custom' template file and using the custom.config file to redirect it.
That way it won't go away during an upgrade. You will still to to verify the template does not change during the upgrade, but at least it does not get forgotten.
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