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.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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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. |
Using Boolean Operators
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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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- Problem Management overview
- Problem Management implementation
- Proactive and reactive Problem Management
- Using mass update with record lists in Problem Management
- Incident Management relationship
- Change Management relationship
- Priority, impact, and urgency
- Problem Management users
- Problem Management phases
- Problem Management assignment groups
- Problem Management Macro List Editor
- Problem Management tables
- Problem Management link records
- Problem Management and Service Level Management
- Escalation and Notification
- Historical problem records
- Incident trending for problem identification
- Integration
- Known Error
- Problem record data model
- Problem prioritization
- Problem records creation
- Problem workarounds
- Logs of problem record updates
Priority, impact, and urgency
Priority is how an individual service desk interaction, change request, incident, or problem fits into the ongoing sequence of tasks required to close the interaction, change request, incident, or problem. It also indicates how soon the work should begin. Determining the priority of a single service desk interaction, change request, incident, or problem depends on how many other defects need attention, the risk of delay, and the resources available to fix it.
Impact is the potential business vulnerability. There is no global value; it is subjective and each business must set and modify its own impact value list.
Urgency is a value that reflects how soon the defect must be resolved to avoid business consequences. It identifies how soon you must react to avert or reduce the impact of the defect on customers.
Assigning values to impact and urgency is subjective. Priority is a Service Manager calculation based on the values you specify for impact and urgency. As you can experience assigning impact and urgency values, you will refine your decision criteria. A service desk interaction, change request, incident, or problem that is isolated can have a low impact initially, but a high urgency because of the potential for damage if the defect becomes widespread. For example, a new computer virus is a problem that can escalate quickly.
Related topics
Change Management overview
Incident Management overview
Problem Management overview
Service Desk overview
