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SDP Known Issues List

SDP 7500 Known Issues :

We are aware of few issues currently experienced in each module, and are working to resolve it as soon as possible. Kindly look into the document before reporting an issue as your problem may be listed below. If you require more information and workaround of a particular issue, click 'View Description & Workaround' link.

Modules

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Issue ID Issue Title Release
SD-15303

Changes with Status as 'Rejected' and Approval Status as 'Submitted for Approval' are displayed under Unapproved Changes in the Home page.

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7.6
SD-12076

If the size of the request description is greater than 64KB then the content is added as an attachment in ServiceDesk Plus.

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SD-12654

Missing attachments in email sent from SDP to Outlook 2003 while using Exchange Server 2007.

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SD-13659

Mandatory field check is not captured in inline edit and spot edit of requests in request details page.

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SD-13890

Technician is not assigned to the request sent through email, if a Business Rule has the action to place the request to a specific category which has a technician assigned to it.

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SD-13903, SD-14795

Due by time is not updated/recalculated when a closed/resolved request (within the due by time) is replied back.

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SD-13970

Time Spent on request is not calculated irrespective of the operational hours.

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SD-13978

ApprovalHistory table does not get updated on performing "Submit for Approval" operation in request details page.

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SD-14089

Reason for updating a request is not shown in the History tab when mandatory fields in request closing rules are not filled.

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SD-14101, SD-14156

Saving a draft from conversation does not save it in the parent request. Instead the draft is saved in the child request. The drafts cannot be viewed unless the request is split.

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7.6
SD-14125

Formatting issue of text in email generated during scheduled reports.

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SD-14129

Request Additional fields (pick list) shows '0' in the request list view page.

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SD-14138

Forwarding a conversation does not follow "Forwarding a Request" email template under the Notification Rules.

7.6
SD-14141

While forwarding a conversation with an attachment, the attachments are received by email address mentioned in the "To" field, but the newly added conversations does not contain the attachment.

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SD-14158

Attachments missing in drafts.

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SD-14314

Unable to edit and update requests when the priority field is removed from the template. This occurs only in Inline Edit.

7.6
SD-14365

List of all technicians is displayed while assigning tasks for a request in a site.

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7.6
SD-14398

"Close" button does not work after approving a request through mail.

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SD-14794

Site option to be associated to the requester is missing in the 'Add Requester' page invoked from the Add New Request page on clicking the 'Search Requester' link icon.

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SD-14844

Issue while displaying the values in the Group drop down in the New Request form of Requester login (requester belonging to a custom site). Issue exists in Firefox.

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SD-14861

On clicking "View All Conversations" link in Request Details page, the navigation buttons disappears.

7.6
SD-14900

While sending mail with attachment in .msg format to SDP, the Description disappears (Exchange server).

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SD-14890

Bullets in description of Requests, Problem, Changes are not shown while viewing. This happens only in IE browser.

7.6
SD-14898

Even though the default resolution values is removed from the Request Template, on creating a new request using the template, the History tab in request details page displays "Resolution added by < tech name who create the request>" but no resolution is present in Resolution tab.

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SD-14969

Additional fields configured for a requester is shown in request even after the requester is changed as a technician.

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SD-14971

"SLA Escalation" and "Notification for unpicked requests under Group" will be sent irrespective of the operational hours and holidays.

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SD-14992

Issue in listing pick list items while creating and editing 'custom filter' with pick list additional field criteria.

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SD-15060

Issue in displaying values in Multi-line field.

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SD-15130

Issue in merging the reply to the respected request if the auto-assigned group is changed.

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SD-15236

Adding notes from the request list view page marks the Public notes as Private in the request detail page.

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SD-15260

Issue in receiving mail from outlook to SDP with another mail as attachment.

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SD-15282

Selected/Auto filled site option in 'Quick Create New Request' does not get populated on clicking 'Add more details'.

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SD-15290

Global request search on entering the numeric additional field value cannot be performed.

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SD-15301

Unable to perform inline edit for requests with UDF fields greater UDF_CHAR12, UDF_NUM 4 and UDF_Date4.

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SD-15312

Inaccurate calculation of due by time of a request, when the date on which the request was put "On Hold" is more than the date of opening the request.

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SD-15406, SD-15387

Editing the date/time additional field of a request will show the Request History values in a long format.

7.6
SD-15533

In submit for approval notification, clicking on the link "Requested By" field does not show the requester details.

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SD-21193

Line breaks in a WorkLog description is not shown in the request details.

7.6
SD-21356

Request search works for the first 500 character of the request description.

7.6
SD-21508

In IE browser: The new line character is doubled in saved draft if the "notification format" is in plain text.

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7.6
SD-21619

Unable to enter the values in the description field on clicking browser back button or right click -> back from the new request page.

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SD-22241

Unable to search for Merged Child requests through the Search box.

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SD-13972

In Change Module, a technician with View and Edit change permission is not able to add work log since there is no Add button in work log.

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7.6
SD-14266

Change module -> Print Preview, the size of the attachment is improperly displayed in change print view.

7.6
SD-14214

Unable to associate Incidents from Actions drop down list under Problems and Change details page.

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7.6
SD-14817

In change closure rules, if the change additional fields are set as mandatory then on removing the additional fields the change cannot be closed.

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7.6
SD-15325

In Problem/Change module -> History tab -> Property View link, the "by" field is always blank.

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7.6
SD-21414

Incorrect values displayed in the "Task" column of change list view page.

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7.6
SD-15532

While copying a solution with attachment to a request, the attachment is neither displayed in request details page nor sent in notification.

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SD-13964

Disposed assets still shown in Attach components list.

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SD-14060

Location information is lost when the asset is associated to a user not belonging to any site.

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SD-14150

Unable to edit Acquisition date in Software License

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SD-14121

Unable to perform Remote Desktop Scanning for vista workstation.

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SD-14293

Error while adding software license for a software when the Software Name is same as the existing product name.

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SD-14406

Scan workstation with ae_scan.vbs provides blank software information (If SDP server is running in Linux Machine).

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SD-14648

Duplication of requesters occurs while associating assets to users on Importing Assets from CSV.

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7.6
SD-14702

Duplication of assets on changing the Product Type of a Product.

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7.6
SD-14858

While trying to email users from software details page, the Email Id of users associated to minor software versions are not present in the "Email Users" window.

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SD-14886

Forefront Client Security software is identified as hotfix instead of software.

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SD-14888

Number format exception while scanning MAC machnines.

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SD-14868

Issue in Asset Dynamic Group - While adding dynamic group criteria, "is not" condition is replaced to "is" condition on saving and the "is not" condition does not work when more than one group criteria is present.

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SD-14975

Switches with 'ipforwarding' parameter as '1' is detected as router, and is displayed in router list view page.

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SD-15007

Error while running Windows Scan Script in HTTPS mode.

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SD-15132

For Schedule AD Import, the imported time is not updated in Assets --> Auto Assign page.

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SD-15263

Issue in scanning workstations with Adobe software installed.

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SD-20892

ServiceDesk Plus detects multiple instances on Microsoft SQL Server i.e., all versions-including 'console' which is a free product, on workstations where it is not installed.

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SD-21418

Blank asset component list page, when there are more than 500 products under a single product type.

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SD-21597

The new dual core processors in Dell laptops are recognized as Pentium III XEON

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SD-21602

Unable to import Asset Additional field values for a workstation from CSV file.

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SD-21706

Issue in scanning the 64 bit supported software.

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SD-21820

While trying to re-scan a workstation on deleting, a failure message occurs as, 'FAILURE: Application exception while adding workstation. : The workstation is already discovered. Please report the problem to the system administrator, with the Error Code - 1,250,085,635,279'.
But the workstation is scanned successfully.

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SD-21899

Improper display of Compliance Type when the software is neither installed nor purchased.

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SD-22220

In IE 7, unable to perform Network Scan based on IP address range.

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7.6
SD-22399

Issue on performing Global Search for workstation/assets.

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AE-3788

Issue in importing the xml of a workstation, if the workstation has many IP address configured.

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SD-14683

Contract list view does not show more than 15 characters. Absence of tool tip on the subject.

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SD-15403

The Purchase Order Print Preview page is not displayed in the respective browser language when the ServiceDesk Plus display language is set as "browser default".

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7.6
SD-22385

Item information is lost on updating the vendor field. This occurs if a product has more than one vendor.

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SD-13807

Issue in the format of resolution field when resolution column is added in Custom Reports.

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SD-13817

In query report table schema diagram, the additional fields table details for Contract and Purchase modules are not listed.

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SD-13892

Issue in date filter setting while generating report for a single day.

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SD-13965

Time spent and Time Elapsed values are interchanged in Time Spent report.

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SD-13982

Need to include Site column under Time Spent reports.

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SD-14091

Deleted request additional field are still displayed in the columns to choose in Request Custom Reports.

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SD-14093

Group by Site option is unavailable for Custom reports and Time Spent reports. This is useful in site based implementation.

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SD-14120

Custom reports settings page become resized in IE.

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SD-14162

While creating flash reports with 'Completed Time' as the filter value, the open requests merged with closed status request is displayed in the report.

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SD-14431, SD- 14476

Problem while editing a report for the first time when the report is generated with some request additional fields.

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SD-14432

Under Reports -> New Custom Reports -> Time Spent module, Description option is repeated twice in Available column.

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SD-14433

All schedule reports cannot be viewed by the Administrator even though the report is public.

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SD-14761

While creating custom reports with date and time spent columns, the chart type 'Time Series', 'Line chart' and 'Area chart' are missing in the list.

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SD-14825

Issue in creating report with values in both Date Filter and Advance Filtering field.

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SD-15012

Unable to generate a report on time spent by technician due to exception pop ups.

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SD-15213

Unable to run saved query Report on upgrade from 7022 to 7500.

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SD-15261, SD-15259

"01-01-1970" is shown in Report column header for Undefined Date value.

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SD-15237

Report graph view does not update on editing and re-running the report.

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SD-20706

In Query report, the sub-headings provided by the "Group By" functionality does not work.

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SD-21278

On scanning, the Printer Serial Numbers which are fetched into the application under Printers does not appear on any reports.

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SD-21785

Overlapped count values in the graph on running Stacked Bar chart 2D/3D. This occurs if there are many requests and each request is assigned to a different technician.

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SD-22234

The date format configured in custom settings does not get reflected in matrix report. But the date format in the title of the matrix report matches with that of the custom settings.

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SD-14798,SD-22315

While scheduling a weekly report, if the schedule time is less than the complete time then the Next schedule is shown as completed.

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SD-14748

Category - Subcategory - Item/Days - Hours - Minutes hierarchy is checked while copying, but not while editing the default settings.

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SD-14337, SD-14388, SD-14424

Users experiencing an issue with navigation link in the site list view page. The first 100 sites are displayed, and neither selecting 'show 200 per page' option nor clicking the next button allows users to view the 2nd or 3rd page of sites. Also, selecting the view 25 or 50 sites fails to change the display.

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SD-14747

Request - Site - Technician association is not altered even though the technician (with site restricted role) is re-associated to another site.

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SD-14137

If a Holiday's description contains '&' then in edit holiday page, '&' is displayed along with 'amp;'.

7.6
SD-14168

Default values modified in Admin --> Request Additional fields does not get reflected in the Request Template.

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SD-14422

Modifying the UDF fields, moves the fields from canvas to the drag/drop list of request template.

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SD-14423

Unable to select additional fields with quotes in Request Closing Rules.

7.6
SD-14426

Unable to set default images in Request Template description.

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SD-14373

In the new request form, the group which is set as default gets unselected when the cursor focus moves away from the requester field.

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SD-21205

In a request template, though the value for the group is selected; while creating a new request with that template, the technicians based on the group is not displayed. Instead all the technicians under the requesters site is displayed.

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7.6
SD-21352

In FireFox: Unable to delete a task from a request template.

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SD-22254

In IE 6; Issue in displaying the default value for Group and Technician field in request template if they are placed above the Site field

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SD-14172

Issue in constructing Business Rule criteria with 'is' 'is not' condition.

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SD-14173

Without selecting the update/cancel button in edit business rule page, clicking on add new Business rule link opens the Edit page of previously viewed business rule. This issue exists in few other Admin configuration entries.

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SD-14182

Script error and blank rule is displayed while defining Business Rules for request additional field label's containing single quote.

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SD-14425

Issue applying To/CC in Business Rule.

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SD-14691

In MSSQL database; on adding a business rule with criteria as 'requester name' and selecting more than 500 requesters, an error is thrown and the business rule does not get added.

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SD-20200

Issue in displaying the condition of a Business Rule on editing, if the criteria value having the special character ' * '.

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SD-21401

Issue with Business Rule when two categories share a sub category of the same name.

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SD-13958

Notification for "Send Self Service login details" is sent even after enabling Junk Notification Filter for the specified email ID.

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SD-14525

In Junk Notification Filter, 'OR' condition changes to 'AND' on saving.

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SD-15018

Unable to send Audit changes notification to technician.

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SD-15283, SD-21350

Some of the '$' variables are not replaced properly in Notes addition notification.

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7.6
SD-21786

Exception on updating and saving a task from the task email notification link.

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SD-21855

$Description variable does not get filled while submitting a change for Recommendation to CAB.

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SD-22223

In IE browser, line feed in notification template causes double spacing.

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SD-14781

Unable to import users from AD, the second time, on disabling a department.

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7.6
SD-15475

Enable a monthly scan every month for a specific day, say Wednesday. On saving the schedule scan the default day, 'Sunday' is populated in day field.

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SD-22196

In SLA escalation for Non English language, if the $ticket owner is added in the escalation list along with other technicians then on saving the $ticket owner is not displayed in the list.

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7.6
SD-21019

Malfunction in Scheduled Backup; when the backup location is in another machine and full rights of the backup folder is given to the user logged into ServiceDdesk Plus server.

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7.6
SD-14108

Associated workstations do not get displayed in " Associated Workstations" list box (Admin -> Requester -> Associate Workstations).

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SD-14154

In IE 6 and IE 7 browsers, while associating department to a requester from requester list view page, an "Invalid argument" alert occurs but the department is associated to the requester.

7.6
SD-14853

Workstations associated to requesters are not retained.

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SD-21067

Failure in updating the requester' s password on performing CSV import for the second time.

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7.6
SD-21039

Department field becomes empty when the department field is not mapped while importing requesters from CSV for second time.

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7.6
SD-21151

Requesters associated to "Not in any Site" and with permission to view "All their site request" are unable to view request details page of the requests in their site.

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SD-21208

Unable to edit the technician details if "&" character is in phone number (or) Mobile number field.

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7.6
SD-22217

On editing a requester, unable to set Department as None. This occurs when no sites are configured in ServiceDesk Plus.

7.6
SD-14290

Unable to dissociate all the groups that are associated to the technician from the technician edit page.

7.6
SD-14036

In Japanese language - Group names listed repeatedly under Actions on failure block in Robo Technician.

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SD-14749

API - Site Group Technician mapping is not checked while updating a request.

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SD-14750

API - Able to add resolution to a request in Requester login.

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SD-14751

API - Unable to set groups in Requester login.

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SD-14752

API - Request details displays due by time and UDF date field empty values as 01 Jan 1970, 05:29:59.

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SD-21355

When a Request is added through API , and the specified Request Template has Tasks configured, then the tasks associated to the template does not get added to the request.

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SD-21830

Reset password does not get displayed to the requester while creating a request using 'ROBO - PASSWORD_RESET' template through API Add Request Form.

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SD-14878

In Spam Filter criteria, AND operation within rule does not work.

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SD-14879

In Spam filter, two criteria with the same rule containing different conditions cannot be added. The later added condition overwrites the former added criteria condition.

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SD-21056

On saving a Spam filter, 'OR' condition changes to 'AND'

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SD-22521

Need to restart the application if the Outgoing Email Type is changed from SMTPS to SMTP.

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SD-22522

On configuring secured POP/IMAP i.e., POP3s/IMAPS in Incoming and upon changing it to POP/IMAP, an error is thrown as the value is set in the session.

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SD-21975

While editing Task Schedule in Preventive Maintenance Task, the date and month is displayed inaccurately on selecting the calender icon. But the date and month displayed in the field is accurate.

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SD-22256

Asset pre populated while creating a Preventive Maintenance task is not displayed while editing the Preventive Maintenance task.

7.6
SD-21748

Technicians with only 'View' permission for the change module are able to delete CAB members selected for apporval.

7.6
SD-13805, SD-14118

Users with password in non-English are unable to login through AD authentication.

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SD-13809

In Requester login, the requester additional fields such as multi line and pick list are shown as a single line text field under "My Details" tab.

7.6
SD-13984

If the server is running in IST and the selected time zone in Personalize window is MST, then on editing the request details page the date values (created, due by) are displayed in IST.

7.6
SD-14107

Splash screen does not close for trusted certificate.

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SD-14434

Unable to retain the date format under Personalize in any of the notifications being sent from servicedesk.

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SD-15059

In requester login, the Change Password option in Personalize link is available when the requester is logged into the application using single-sign on.

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SD-21058

In 'My Details' tab of the requester login, the department of the requester is not shown and the Date/Time requester additional field is shown in long, if "Not allowed to Edit their profile" option is enabled in requester details section of Self Service Portal settings.

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SD-21466

Line breaks in request/solution description is not shown on viewing the description. This happens only in IE browser.

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SD-21918

In IE browser: If the hostname has an '_' (underscore), clicking on any tab say, requests, solutions or assets, returns to the login page.

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SD-21930

If no site is configured in ServiceDesk Plus, in create/edit of request/problem/change page, the requester details such as phone number does not get auto filled on selecting the requester name from the ajax list.

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SD-21609, SD-21987, SD-22368

In MSSQL; unable to add Spam filter, Junk filter and Custom filter if the criteria is too long.

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SD-22046

Japanese File name gets garbled after opening file from IE browser

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SD-22082

Issue in fetching certain Japanese attachment from Mail Server: Exchange 2003+Mailer : Outlook 2003 + Protocol (Email Type) : IMAP

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