IFS assyst

We are pleased to announce that, following a successful review period, we are now able to offer support for the use of MySQL 8.0.41 with assyst ITOM 5.8.4.1.Please note that no new software is being released for this feature. A comprehensive Wiki document, available here outlines the necessary steps to upgrade the default MySQL installation, v8.0.33, provisioned with assyst ITOM 5.8.4.1, to MySQL v8.0.41. However, please be aware of the following considerations:Support for MySQL 8.0.41 is limited to the latest release of assyst ITOM, v5.8.4.1. Customers wishing to upgrade to MySQL 8.0.41 and currently using an earlier version of assyst ITOM (prior to v5.8.4.1) must first upgrade to assyst ITOM v5.8.4.1. Detailed instructions for this process are available here , and the necessary software can be obtained from the CDN. At this time, we only support the use of MySQL 8.0.41 on Windows Servers.Additionally, it is important to note that upgrading to MySQL 8.0.41 requires updating both the O

Hi, I would like to know if IFS already have some dark mode css to use on assystnet and/or assystweb as a new theme. https://wiki.axiossystems.com/assyst11-7Wiki/index.php/Themes_Form

To help with accessibility for a few users, we would like to be able to configure assyst so that it can be used in Dark Mode.I have been advised by IFS via Call Ref: 386357 that this is not possible and to submit a new Idea.

Has anyone created a PowerBI report to show incidents that have breeched their Resolution SLA?I can create it easily as a monitor by using the SVD Resolution Breach flag but we only get Resolution Due and Actual Resolution date/times is the Incident Table.Was hoping I could somehow create a filter that would only show me incidents where the Resolution Due date/time was before the Actual Resolution date/time but after trawling the internet I can’t see a way to do this in PowerBI.I could do this really easily with a bit of SQL but PowerBI doesn’t let me define filters as SQL I don’t think.

Is there a way to increase the height of a custom multi-line string field so that it acts similar to the default Description field?  The Description field expands to a larger size and then at some point adds a scroll bar. Currently the custom multi-line field only shows 4 lines of text and then adds the scroll bar. It would be great to have the multi-line string field expand vertically to show more than 4 lines of text before adding the scroll bar. We are running assyst 11.6.3.  Thanks!  

Hi,We’ve installed assyst 24R2 in our Dev environment to do some testing prior to upgrading our Production instance.  Our Dev environment uses database authentication with a SQL Server database.The majority of our users have an email address (e.g. john.smith@ourcompany.com) as their short code.Since the upgrade whenever a user with an email address as a short code attempts to log into assyst they are getting the following error message. “The username or password are incorrect.” The server.log file shows the following.2025-02-13 07:50:55,468 WARN  [com.axiossystems.assyst.domain.security.authentication.AssystAuthenticator] (default task-29) getAccountUser 'JOHN.SMITH' does not have an account.2025-02-13 07:50:55,468 ERROR [com.axiossystems.assyst.domain.security.authentication.AssystAuthenticator] (default task-29) authenticateUser 'Exception' thrown: getAccountUser 'JOHN.SMITH' does not have an account.: com.axiossystems.assyst.security.exceptions.InvalidUsernamePasswordException: getA

We’ve had an issue highlighted to us by one of our support teams that a user has assigned a change approval decision task to themselves and approved it.The particular process assigns an approval decision task to an Approval SVD containing only those users that are authorised to approve a change. We can see in the action history that a user outside this group has assigned the decision task to their own SVD and then approved it.Does anyone have know how we might stop this just for certain decision tasks? I don’t really want to restrict the “assign internal” action as this would affect a much bigger group of users and processes.Needless to say we’ve told the user not to do this and we can keep an eye on this but was hoping there is a way to plug this hole. Thanks

Hello Community,We are currently in the process of replacing our old, self-developed IT service portal with AssystNet. During this transition, we have encountered several questions, particularly regarding the custom forms created with the AssystNet customizer.Is it possible to trigger different processes based on user selections through dropdown or checkbox fields?For example, in a notebook order form, the user can choose whether they need a new notebook, want a replacement, or wish to return their notebook. Depending on the user's selection, a different process should be initiated in Assyst.The idea behind this is to keep the service catalog compact and simplify navigation for users. In our old portal, we had at least three separate offerings for new orders, replacements, and returns. I would like to optimize this if possible in the future.

Is there a list of known problems that we could look at before submitting a ticket to IFS support? It would be great to evaluate whether it’s a known issue before opening up a ticket. 

Hello everyone,I am evaluating whether IFS assyst can meet the requirements of a telecommunications company that needs to manage various aspects of its operation. Below are the key elements they need to handle:PoPs (Points of Presence): ~400 Splice and Termination Boxes (CE/CA): ~250,000 Cables: ~250,000 Relations between Cables and CE/CA: ~500,000 Circuits: ~70,000 Customer Ports: ~700,000In addition, within their service activation system, they manage the following related to the OLTs (Optical Line Terminals) that connect customers to the network:OLTs: ~400 Interfaces: ~30,000 Circuits: ~30,000 Available Ports on OLTs: ~3,900,000Furthermore, in Zabbix, which monitors active network devices, there are approximately 10,000 devices. Given this scale, can IFS assyst efficiently support the management of these assets and operations on CMDB? Are there any best practices or additional configurations required to handle such a telecommunications environment?I appreciate any insights or experi

I am working on an ETM channel I inherited from my predecessor. Within the code, he refers to the lastSLAClockStop of the existing record. As of the end of November, it doesn’t seem to exist in the payload. Is this a change that was made within IFS? 

Apologies if I’m just missing it, but I don’t see anything in the Wiki about it either. In previous versions, we could select multiple events in an event monitor using Shift or Ctrl, then right click and take an action on all of the selected events. How do you do that in 24R2? I select multiple check boxes for the tickets I want to action, but as soon as I right click on one of the selected tickets to take an action, the rest of the selected tickets are unchecked. Is it not possible to action multiple tickets in the new version in the new event monitor view?

We have a “Service Department” FX that I am wondering if someone may be able to assist with.  We have a service offering that we have set up to be used as a stand-alone offering or as part of a few of our Bundle offerings. We are looking to have it assign to a desktop team based on region if used as part of any of the bundles, and to the Service Desk when it is not being used as of a bundle/ as a stand-alone or being used as part of a bundle when the region field is blank/null.   Notes:The Region field is on the Parent Bundle Form and can sometimes not be required (empty). Current Expression:if($new.parentEvent.bundleEvent.serviceOffering.shortCode = "ONBOARDING",            if($new.parentEvent.W("DESKTOP REGION").name = "US & Canada", "DESKTOP SUPPORT US & CANADA",            if($new.parentEvent.W("DESKTOP REGION").name = "EMEA", "DESKTOP SUPPORT EMEA",            if($new.parentEvent.W("DESKTOP REGION").name = "LATAM", "DESKTOP SUPPORT LATAM",            if($new.parentEvent.W(

assystWeb 24R2 SU1 has now been released.  This can be downloaded from our CDN.Release notes can be viewed via the following link.

​ Hello,I have a question regarding password security and maximum length for login to the Assyst Portal (AssystWEB). In today’s landscape longer passwords are a must to comply with security best practices and guidelines. Our company policy dictates a minimum character length for passwords that are not to be regularly changed.However, we have some issues in this area where login to the application using the GUI is needed, but users have passwords that are longer than 30 characters and this causes conflict with the maxlength. This current maxlength impacts authentication where login is prompted Database or using LDAP as the Server Security Mapping for assystWeb.Is there a reason as to why the Assyst Portal password field has a maxlength set to 30 on the login page?assystweb Password field maxlength="30"Is it possible to modify the .ear or .war files to increase this value to allow AD serviceusers, and assyst global users (such as ZZGLOBAL, ZZENG etc.) to login to the application even if

Hi,I’m sorry if this has been answered before, but I could not find any information regarding the deployment of Assyst Enterprise (Assyst server) and Search server in a containerized environment.As I understand, there have been steps taken to allow Assyst to run in a containerized environment such as Kubernetes. However, there does not seem to be much information on how to proceed.The only information on this matter that I’ve found so far is this article from the wiki.The article however is very vague on how to move forward with preparations for such a deployment. There does not seem to be any prepared or easily workable resources within the Assyst installation files from the CDN for deploying Assyst in a containerized environment, nor does the wiki specify where or how to proceed.Are there articles on the wiki regarding this matter that I have yet to find?Considering Assyst is a packaged application with dependencies, one would assume a baseline image file is to be supplied in some ma

Hello everyone,Is there a way to split the screen within a Service Offering / within assystNET (self-service portal)?We have a ton of white space here which would be better if we could have a form on the left and the infomation to the right. Please see the screenshot below as an example?This would save our customers having to scroll down the page to get to the form. Many Thanks,Jessica Lee van Pelt (She/Her)Service Analyst - IT Service Operations, Architecture & Design (NSSL)

Hello,I have a question regarding the use of Item Source and its intended use case.The Wiki currently presents this as a function to be used by ITOM/ITAM to allow for documenting the last audit. However, to actually use this seems unclear to me.Is the intended use solely to act as a registry of audits performed on the item?Such as :Source Reference Source System Last Audit Date Modified By Transaction ID 31234 SCOM 2024-12-31 ZZ_SCOM_IMPORT Transaction ID 41254 SCOM 2025-01-31 ZZ_SCOM_IMPORT  An alternative use case which I’m trying to verify the viability of is the use of “Item Source” as an alternative or extra ETM bonding. The reason for this is the ability to see the bonding from within the assyst application, and to use Last Audit Date as tracker for then the item was updated by an integration, and to be able to track this entirely seperate from the item modify date.The Along the lines of something like this:Source Reference (External id (used as

Hi,I’m sorry if this is covered in the wiki, but I could not find the information I was looking for and I’m now unsure if what I’m trying to achieve is even possible and am unsure where to turn next. The practice within our organization is that Problems and RFCs are not to be measured using SLA targets.This practice within our organization is recommended by several other organizations, and our users know these event types are not used to measure performance; however, they report finding it stressful having a visible timer ticking down or displaying in red in the info-zone and on the WorkManager cards leading up to and following a “breach.”It is my understanding that it’s possible to have tickets with no visible SLA clock in the info-zone or WorkManager; however, this then also removes several useful timestamps from being recorded on the record form. Is this correct, or is it possible to remove the visible timer in the info-zone and WorkManager for only some event types, or categories w

We have custom fields on our Contact User form.  We have a use case where the logging user needs to see the information that is stored in these custom fields. I’ve attempted to reference the custom fields in the Event Logging Form Contact User field definitions System Parameter but haven’t had any luck.Is it possible to have the contents of these custom fields appear in the “Affected User details panel” in the Self-Service portal? 

I’m currently working on creating an ETM channel that processes incoming emails. They can have different priorities, typically increasing in severity as time goes on. I need to compare the incoming priority to the one that already exists in the ticket, and if there’s a difference, update it. Does anyone know of a particular way to achieve this?

Is there a way to make fields side by side vs. always under each other?  

Does anyone know if there is an ERD for Events (the main table is called Incident) as it seems to be missing from the following wiki page?Entity Relationship Diagrams - assyst11-8Wiki 

I’ve had a request from a Service Department to add a status field to incidents so they can report what stage it is in.I’ve create a custom field on the incident form in Customiser and a lookup containing 4 options: 1.Investigation, 2. Problem Identified, 3.Resolution in Progress, 4. Acceptance & Deployment. All working nicely except I can’t create a monitor that will display the field or filter on certain values.Is there a better way of doing this where our support team can report on the status based on the stages above?

Hello everyone, I do hope you can help me to under Task Expressions from Decision Answer(s).We have a process named ‘1ST LINE MANAGER APPROVAL’ which is triggered once a System Access Request (Service Offering) is submitted by an End User on assystNET (Self-service Portal). Our process/workflow looks up the Contact Users Manager and assigns them the Decision Task. The Manager can then answer this Decision Task by either selecting ‘APPROVE’ or ‘REJECT’ and can leave any comments within the Description Text box.If the request is approved by the Line Manager, the Decision Task closes, and the process sets up a Stage Action Type: “IMPLANTATION” for our IT Service Desk to complete. They then manually close both the task and then the Main Event through separate actions - Great! However, if this request is rejected the process ends via Process Category “SVQ REJECTED” and it also closes the Main Event too. When our End Users review their closed tickets within assystNET, they can see the reques