Importing fields into NARDA
Effective 8/22/11, SBDL inserts the SB DispatchID number in both traditional locations and in the MoreInfo section of each dispatch-related Callsheet. This particular inserted text is protected — meaning ServiceDesk will not allow its deletion or editing. Naturally, it transfers into the JobRecord when one is created, and is similarly protected there.
When any job is imported into the on-screen NARDA, SD first looks to see if there is such a protected DispatchID number. If there is, it uses this as the controlling DispatchID, and ignores any provision or placement of the number (i.e., in previously traditional locations) elsewhere.
Given this protected treatment (and in specific regard to tickets created since installation of the improvement), there is no longer a need to maintain a ServiceBench DispatchID in any of the old/traditional locations. On the other hand, for continuity they will continue to be inserted there by the SBDL program.
In regard to finding particular fields for importation to the NARDA otherwise, the system will continue to look in the underlying JobRecord for key identifier strings, and if finding them will react as follows:
(i) “Dsptch#” [will treat the following text as the DispatchID, except will ignore this text if a protected DispatchID was otherwise found]. (ii)“Dsptch#” [will treat the following text as a DispatchID, except will ignore this text if a protected DispatchID was otherwise found].
(iii)“Dispatched by ServiceBench as #” [will treat the following text as a DispatchID, except will ignore this text if a protected DispatchID was otherwise found]
In all cases, contemporary versions of SBDL can be counted on to setup text precisely as needed for corresponding within-SD schemes, as described here.