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  • 1.  Create Resource Page

    Posted Jan 30, 2012 09:58 AM

    We recently moved from Altiris 6.5 to SMP 7.1 and I had a question about creating a resource. We (Altiris Admins) know how to create the resource by going into Assets and right click create new. But we like to have a custom menu item pointing directly to the create resource page for all of our different desktop support folks. Before we used a custom menu item to point to 'http://SERVER/Altiris/Resource/manager/EditCreateResource.aspx ' but that no longer works with 7.1. It would be nice to be able to point to a menu where you can drop down and pick the resource type. Alternatively I did create a custom view for our computer resource type creation. Is there a way to point directly to that view? I copied the URL from our custom view on computer creation but when you add it to the custom menu you get an error when loading.

    Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.



  • 2.  RE: Create Resource Page

    Posted Jan 31, 2012 07:31 PM

    Instead of clicking the link, right-click the link and choose Open in New Window.  Then use this link in the future.  Unless I'm misunderstanding your request.



  • 3.  RE: Create Resource Page

    Posted Feb 01, 2012 04:11 PM

    Hi Mclemson,

    Thanks for your reply, and I did try that already. I click Manage -> Assets -> (find computers under the folders) -> right click on computer and select 'create computer'. That brings up the page (custom view) to create a computer asset. I copied this URL and added it as the URL for my custom menu item. It prompts a generic error of 'Server Error in '/Altiris/AssetContractCommon' Application'.

     



  • 4.  RE: Create Resource Page

    Posted Feb 03, 2012 11:59 AM

    I could ask this in a better way... What is your workflow for, or how do you show your deployment people, how to create assets in Altiris? Maybe I am being picky, but it seems like the default method for creating assets is a little cumbersome and clunky.



  • 5.  RE: Create Resource Page

    Posted Feb 10, 2012 12:08 AM

    If you right-click and choose to open in a new window, and then copy that URL, that URL should be portable to wherever you want, whenever you want.  That being said, I am not an expert on asset.  I've moved this to the asset forum to see if it gets more hits over there.



  • 6.  RE: Create Resource Page

    Posted Feb 16, 2012 04:01 PM

    Thats what I tried orginally MCLemson and it doesn't work. You are able to copy that URL and save as a favorite in IE, which works fine. However, if you try to add that URL as a custom menu item, it fails.



  • 7.  RE: Create Resource Page

    Posted Mar 29, 2012 03:30 PM

    I believe adding the URL as a custom menu item does not work because the edit screen needs to be in it's own window.  I once tried adding it as a web part, adding it to a portal page, and point to that instead.  In the end, it has display rendering issues, so I stopped going down that route. 

    I think a good alternative is to have custom menu item call /Altiris/AssetContractCommon/WebParts/Actions.aspx.  This will give 3 links (it's the Asset Common Tasks web part), and the first one will be a link to create items.