Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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Either word in a topic |
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Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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How to create an offering
You define offerings in the Service Catalog Management module.
Create an offering
- From the main menu, select Plan > Service Catalog.
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Do one of the following:
- Service Catalog > Catalog: Select a category, and a service under which to add the offering, and in the Offering pane, click Add an Offering.
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Service Catalog > Offerings: Click New.
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In the New Offering dialog box, complete the Offering details section.
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Select a SLA and an OLA/UC in the Agreements session. Only active agreements appear in the drop-down lists. Selected agreements determine the Service Level Target for the request based on this offering. For more information, see Service Level Management.
Note The maximum number of offerings that can be assigned to an agreement is 250.
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If Offering bundle is selected, add offerings in the Bundled offering session.
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Click Add or the grid icon .
- Select the required records. The added items appear in yellow
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- Save your changes.
Duplicate an offering
Duplicating offerings is useful if you want to use the same or a very similar definition of a complex offering but for a different purpose. For example, you may have an offering for a new laptop which has a complex task plan and user options. You can duplicate this offering, and use it as a basis for an offering for a new monitor.
To duplicate an offering:
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In the main menu, select Service Catalog > Offerings.
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Select the offering you want to clone.
To filter the record list, click the Add filter button. For more information, see Filters.
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Click the record identifier in the ID column to display the selected record.
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On the toolbar, click Duplicate.
The offering is duplicated, and given the same name as the source offering with the suffix, -Copy. For example, NewPC-Copy.
The following are copied:
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All general details
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Task and approval plans/Fulfillment plan
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User options/Fulfillment plan
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Default values
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In the case of an offering bundle, the bundled offerings and the user option mappings.
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Prices
Note The following are not copied:
- History
- Discussions
- Business rules
- The popularity of the offering
- The number of times the offering has been requested
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- Edit the new offering as desired and save the offering.
Fulfillment plan
Note This is not relevant for offering bundles.
If you defined user options and a task plan for the offering record in the steps above, you can publish these definitions as a fulfillment plan which can subsequently be used as a fulfillment plan for other offerings, instead of defining them all over again.
To publish the user options and task plan as a fulfillment plan:
- In the User Options or Task plan tab, click Publish as fulfillment plan.
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Enter a name and a description for the fulfillment plan.
The plan type is automatically displayed depending in the type of offering that you are defining.
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Save the fulfillment plan.
Both the user options and the task plan are saved to the fulfillment plan, and become read-only in the offering.
- To update the plan, click Edit fulfillment plan.
For more details about fulfillment plans, see How to create or edit a fulfillment plan.