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  • 1.  Can grloader be used to attach CIs to a Change Order?

    Posted Apr 03, 2015 09:58 AM

    Is it possible to use grloader to attach a bulk list of CIs to a change order?  We have a business need where monthly more than 900 CIs need to be associated to a Change Order, but having the technicians do this through the CA SDM user interface is unrealistic.  We want to be able to leverage the existing speadsheets that are created a just import the CIs to the change order for proper association.

    We have also explored the idea of using a phantom CI with 900+ CIs relationships for the same purpose, but that would exclude the actual CIs from being directly associated to the Change Order.  Thoughts?



  • 2.  Re: Can grloader be used to attach CIs to a Change Order?

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 03, 2015 12:28 PM

    I'm sorry to say that I can't think of any way this could be done with GRLoader. Grloader can be used to update either CI or relationship objects. The Configuration Item is tied to a Change Order through an  SREL table, so the field isn't on the Configuration Item object itself to update it from there.



  • 3.  Re: Can grloader be used to attach CIs to a Change Order?

    Posted Apr 04, 2015 01:47 AM

    I think that there is one technical opportunity to did that but I didn't recommend to realize it.

     

    As I remember grloader processes custom attributes, so you can add some custom attribute, call it "z_chg" for example where will be stored your COs id.

     

    Then create SPEL macro that will create LREL relation between updated CI and CO from z_chg attribute.



  • 4.  Re: Can grloader be used to attach CIs to a Change Order?

    Posted Apr 06, 2015 05:22 PM

    As previously mentioned there are many relationships across various tables and that many CIs on a single Change Order could impact performance. Regardless, one way to "bulk-add" the CIs would be to use Web Services and the createLrelRelationship method to add the Change Order in question as a Related Change to each CI.