I do not understand exactly what you want to accomplish, but it looks to
me as you can solve this by using a trigger on the database table (mysql
5.x) ?

 

Regards,

Peter

 

 

Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Tony
Evans
Verzonden: maandag 26 januari 2009 20:02
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: [dev] Feature Request: Billable / Non-Billable Time

 

Hi Folks,

 

   We're testing your community edition of OTRS at the moment, and we've
recently enabled some of our customers to access the customer facing
side of OTRS.  Our current setup has a "Customer ID" being the customers
account number, and the "Time Units (Work Units)" to be the length of
time our technicians have physically spent dealing with the request.  My
problem is, however, that with one time field, that adds time units
together (such as it does), we use it to track billable support time.
If a ticket is considered to be our problem and not billable, we have to
change the account number (Customer ID) to an internally used Customer
ID.  This prevents the customer from seeing their ticket as we have just
dis-associated that ticket with their company.

 

   So, before I go further... I have tried to configure additional time
fields, and so far I do not get anything like the current time/work
units field that adds time together throughout the life of the ticket.
I've managed to add fields that replace whatever value you have
specified previously, but nothing that adds the new amount to a previous
amount.

 

   If this IS possible, and I'm doing it wrong, then I wholeheartedly
apologize and would like to ask if there's some direction you can point
me so that I can edit and/or setup OTRS with the capability to have two
time fields, in my case, one for billable and one for non-billable time
accounting.  Please keep in mind that we hope to use OTRS as a helpdesk
type of ticket system, so time tracking, such as would be done for
projects tracking does not apply, as we often have multiple technicians
working on issues, with multiple responses back and forth between my
staff and our clients.

 

  If this is not quite feasible with OTRS yet, I'd like to know what it
would take to implement such a feature, as I am not a developer.  If the
cost would be negligible, I may be able to have my company speak to your
sales about funding such a project.  I only need to know if it can be
done, how soon could it be done, and for what cost?  We'd like to see it
part of your community edition so it can be tested and tried before
paying for commercial editions and finding the product may not suit our
needs entirely.

 

Thank you for your time and consideration,

 

Tony E

Manager of Systems Administration

CWIE LLC, Hosting Services

 

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