[rt-users] RT in Google cloud?

2016-05-15 Thread Yan Seiner
Has anyone done anything with RT on Google Cloud? - RT 4.4 and RTIR Training Sessions https://bestpractical.com/training * Washington DC - May 23 & 24, 2016

[rt-users] AD integration for external auth

2015-07-07 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm coming back to RT after a few years. I am trying to set up external auth against our AD server. I have a working implementation for mediawiki, so I know that it's possible on our system. As far as possible I've duplicated the options from mediawiki/php to rt/perl, but I am still missing

Re: [rt-users] AD integration for external auth

2015-07-07 Thread Yan Seiner
-authentication.html On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com mailto:y...@seiner.com wrote: I'm coming back to RT after a few years. I am trying to set up external auth against our AD server. I have a working implementation for mediawiki, so I know that it's

Re: [rt-users] AD integration for external auth

2015-07-07 Thread Yan Seiner
wrote: If you mean during the login via RT Gui -- username is, sAMAccountName. THere shouldn't be any need to prefix with the domain as the domain is already be queried. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com mailto:y...@seiner.com wrote

[rt-users] Upgrade to 4.05 broke search editing

2012-04-17 Thread Yan Seiner
We recently upgraded from 4.02 to 4.05. This has broken our ability to edit our custom searches. We can still use the searches, and they produce valid results, we just cannot edit them and cannot create new searches. Here's an example of an existing search: Queue = 'Water Close-Out' AND

Re: [rt-users] Upgrade to 4.05 broke search editing

2012-04-17 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, April 17, 2012 9:28 am, Thomas Sibley wrote: On 04/17/2012 12:02 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: Wrong query, expecting a OPERATOR in 'Queue = 'Water Close-Out' AND CF.{Work-State}--here = 'Pending Invoices'' And if we try to create a new search, it refuses to accept the CF.{Work-State

Re: [rt-users] Upgrade to 4.05 broke search editing

2012-04-17 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, April 17, 2012 10:35 am, Thomas Sibley wrote: On 04/17/2012 01:23 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: However, on clicking on the Advanced tab it only shows the Queue = part. I can't reproduce this. Have you cleared your mason cache since upgrading? What local customizations do you have

[rt-users] User stats

2012-03-14 Thread Yan Seiner
Is there some way to pull the transactions a user has made from the database? I'd like to be able to compile all of the statistics on a per-user basis. Things like # of tickets created, modified, etc. We don't use time worked. The BP website shows two Activity Reports extensions but they seem

Re: [rt-users] User stats

2012-03-14 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, March 14, 2012 10:29 am, Kevin Falcone wrote: The homepage link for Activity Reports links to the module on search.cpan.org, and most of the changes for the development release of 1.01_01 are 4.0 compatibility fixes. Did installing 1.01_01 fail in some way? Other than custom

[rt-users] Aoache help - what have I done?

2012-03-06 Thread Yan Seiner
I have rt4 running quite well on an apache server. However, I think I got a little carried away when I set it up. here's my perl handler line from apache.conf: Location / Order allow,deny Allow from all AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 SetHandler perl-script

[rt-users] Articles - no content text box

2012-01-30 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm trying to play with articles but when I go to create or modify an article, I see the form, but there's no corresponding text box for the Content box. I've tried modifying a created article; no joy. The user I've set up has superuser permissions; in addition I've created a test articles group

Re: [rt-users] Child or nested queues

2012-01-20 Thread Yan Seiner
On Fri, January 20, 2012 11:08 am, k...@rice.edu wrote: I do not think that nested queues are supported. One way to handle it would be to have a base X, Y, and Z queues with a custom field defined to partition the tickets. Then use saved searches and dashboards to give you an effective

Re: [rt-users] AutoRefresh any page

2012-01-18 Thread Yan Seiner
(window.location.reload(), 60*1000) } ); On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:32, Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com wrote: Is there some way to get RT to reload every page on a regular basis? I have a kiosk/wall display and I need it to show current info.  The kiosk can show search results or an info page

[rt-users] AutoRefresh any page

2012-01-17 Thread Yan Seiner
Is there some way to get RT to reload every page on a regular basis? I have a kiosk/wall display and I need it to show current info. The kiosk can show search results or an info page. Is there something I can add to the URL? I found some old documentation that ?HomeRefreshInterval=120 might

Re: [rt-users] Can't locate object method Config via package RT at /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-server

2012-01-04 Thread Yan Seiner
kjcsb wrote: I am attempting to get RT 4.0.4 running. When I start httpd I get the following: Can't locate object method Config via package RT at /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-server httpd.conf Location / Order allow,deny Allow from all SetHandler modperl PerlResponseHandler

[rt-users] Increasing font size for one user or computer

2011-12-15 Thread Yan Seiner
We have 2 large (60) displays that show the status of tickets. These are typical LCD TVs with 1980x1020 resolution. This makes the fonts really small. Is there some way to make the fonts bigger for these two screens? I created a display user that the displays log in with so it could be either

Re: [rt-users] Increasing font size for one user or computer

2011-12-15 Thread Yan Seiner
On Thu, December 15, 2011 10:14 am, Yan Seiner wrote: Is there some way to make the fonts bigger for these two screens? Never mind; found the Custom CSS page under Themes. -- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something

[rt-users] Clock and TitleBox widgets

2011-12-05 Thread Yan Seiner
Has anyone implemented TitleBox and Clock (and maybe other) widgets that can be used on dashboards? We rolled out our status board which shows the status of current jobs. The status board is a browser kiosk (no window decorations or menubar). The two most asked questions: Where is the clock?

[rt-users] Autocreate external users

2011-12-02 Thread Yan Seiner
I need to allow for the automatic creation of unprivileged users when we get emails from outside. Right now I create privileged users when they log in via LDAP: Set($AutoCreateNonExternalUsers, 1); Set($AutoCreate, {Privileged = 1}); Now I need to create unprivileged users on emails from

[rt-users] Persistent sessions

2011-11-28 Thread Yan Seiner
I need to set up a status board - something like the displays at airports. The board needs to auto-login on startup as a particular user. I found this: http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/PersistentSessions Which is close but it will affect all users. I'm looking to do this for one user

Re: [rt-users] Persistent sessions

2011-11-28 Thread Yan Seiner
On Mon, November 28, 2011 2:05 pm, Yan Seiner wrote: Is anyone aware of an extension that works as a status board or info board? Following up on this, is there any way to get RT to go directly to a specific search result (instead of home page) and also directly to the history display

[rt-users] rt v. rt-crontool

2011-11-23 Thread Yan Seiner
The recent discussion on modifying custom fields got me thinking What is the difference between using rt and rt-crontool? Seems that both can do slightly different things and are really different tools. The name makes it seem like rt-crontool is somehow preferred when running a scheduled

[rt-users] pdf thumbnail shows as broken

2011-11-17 Thread Yan Seiner
We're uploading some pdf files into custom fields as images. We need to do this as we want the pdfs to be clickable in searches. The problem is that the thumbnails show as broken images. I'm guessing this is because RT doesn't know how to make thumbnails from pdfs. We want to either have the

[rt-users] Autocreate unprivileged users

2011-11-15 Thread Yan Seiner
I have 4.0.2 set up to autocreate privileged users authenticated through LDAP. I'm pretty sure I had 3.8.10 set up to autocreate unprivileged users who did not authenticate through LDAP. I can't figure out how to do this in 4.0.2. In other words, the functionality I need is: A user tries to

[rt-users] kiosk mode?

2011-11-10 Thread Yan Seiner
We're planning to set up a display in one of the crew areas that displays their current projects. To goal is to have it completely automated; the computer gets turned on and it auto-logs in to a default user, runs a browser, and brings up a default RT dashboard. Is anyone aware of a plugin that

Re: [rt-users] kiosk mode?

2011-11-10 Thread Yan Seiner
On Thu, November 10, 2011 11:05 am, Kevin Falcone wrote: The code that we're using for rt.cpan.org and rt.perl.org logs in as a Public user into a separate part of the UI. You may be able to adapt that. Where can I find that code? Thanks! -- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or

Re: [rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes

2011-11-09 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, November 9, 2011 6:07 am, Thomas Sibley wrote: On 11/08/2011 07:03 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: As near as I can figure, when we merged the two databases the user table got smashed together. How did you merge the databases? There is no existing tool to do a merge properly and doing

Re: [rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes

2011-11-09 Thread Yan Seiner
going on. (Another story; apache is being subborn but that's not for this list.) -Original Message- From: rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Yan Seiner Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:31 AM To: Thomas Sibley

Re: [rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes

2011-11-09 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, November 9, 2011 8:49 am, Kevin Falcone wrote: If you're having trouble managing RT internal users while logged in as an LDAP user, please see Ruslan's response about possible bugs. Try logging in as root and seeing if that helps. Is the bug report public? If so, where? Thanks!

Re: [rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes

2011-11-09 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, November 9, 2011 9:10 am, Kevin Falcone wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:01:01AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: On Wed, November 9, 2011 8:49 am, Kevin Falcone wrote: If you're having trouble managing RT internal users while logged in as an LDAP user, please see Ruslan's response about

Re: [rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes

2011-11-09 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, November 9, 2011 9:55 am, Kevin Falcone wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:45:20AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: I've been poking around in the databases... In the virgin RT4 database (the one we created from scratch) the password field is varchar(256). In the converted RT3-RT4 database

Re: [rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes

2011-11-09 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, November 9, 2011 10:38 am, Kevin Falcone wrote: Look at the output of the command and your database logs. Since your schema isn't upgraded, something failed. You can look through etc/upgrade/relevant-versions/* and see what else should have run. OK, a cursory look says that

[rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes

2011-11-08 Thread Yan Seiner
Yesterday we upgraded our RT instance to 4.0.2. Before then we were running 3.8.10 in production, and 4.0.2 in testing. We had 4.0.2 set up in testing with ExternalAuth. That worked well; our LDAP users could log in with their credentials. I could create non-LDAP users manually (which is the

Re: [rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes

2011-11-08 Thread Yan Seiner
: rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Yan Seiner Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 9:28 AM To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com Subject: [rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes Yesterday we upgraded our RT instance

Re: [rt-users] ExternalAuth, local users, and upgrade woes

2011-11-08 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, November 8, 2011 12:41 pm, Ruslan Zakirov wrote: On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Thomas Sibley t...@bestpractical.com wrote: On 11/08/2011 02:11 PM, Izz Abdullah wrote: But yeah, setting the password = ‘’ actually forces the external authentication (trying to login with a blank

[rt-users] RT CLI linking tickets

2011-09-27 Thread Yan Seiner
What's the proper incantation for linking tickets via the CLI? rt help link says: rt link 2 dependson 3 but it does: root@svr-rt:~# /opt/rt4/bin/rt link 4 dependson 3 rt: Different ids in URL (`//REST/1.0/ticket/link') and submitted form (`4'). Google comes up short on that cryptic error.

[rt-users] Attachment links to email doesn't work in 4.0

2011-09-15 Thread Yan Seiner
We are using this code snippet in our comments template to send attachments as links rather than actual attachments. http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/AddAttachmentLinksToMail It works fine in 3.8, but fails to work in 4.0. No links appear. When I modify the last line to say $res =

[rt-users] Radio buttons in 4.0

2011-09-13 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm playing with radio buttons in 4.0. I can configure them as Yes/No but I end up with 3 - No Value | Yes | No. Is there any way to get rid of the No Value button? RT Training Sessions (http://bestpractical.com/services/training.html) * Chicago, IL, USA September 26 27, 2011 * San

[rt-users] The actual HTTP_HOST does NOT match the configured WebDomain

2011-09-07 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm trying to set up the email gateway on my shiny new install of 4.0.2. I think I have everything set up correctly, except that the email never gets there and I get this error in the apache log files: [Wed Sep 7 20:16:02 2011] [warn]: The actual HTTP_HOST (tracker) does NOT match the

Re: [rt-users] Making autocreated AD users into privileged users

2011-09-07 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, September 7, 2011 3:25 pm, Kevin Falcone wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 03:06:05PM -0700, April Rosenberg wrote: Thanks for the tip, I hadn't tried searching since I had one user that is visible. It is RT::Auth 0.08. But I am now able to change my users to privileged, so all is

Re: [rt-users] The actual HTTP_HOST does NOT match the configured WebDomain

2011-09-07 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, September 7, 2011 2:22 pm, Kevin Falcone wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:30:00PM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to set up the email gateway on my shiny new install of 4.0.2. I think I have everything set up correctly, except that the email never gets there and I get this error

Re: [rt-users] The actual HTTP_HOST does NOT match the configured WebDomain

2011-09-07 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, September 7, 2011 3:46 pm, Yan Seiner wrote: All of this is happening on the same machine. I am using the mail command to send mail to the mailgate on the same host, so no proxying. Never mind Turned out to be a stale DNS cache issue... http://localhost works; http

Re: [rt-users] Upgrade or migrate to RT4?

2011-08-26 Thread Yan Seiner
On Fri, August 26, 2011 8:39 am, Kevin Falcone wrote: You can install RT 4.0.2 on a new server and import your database and then run the database upgrade steps. Running the 3.8.4 data under 4.0.2 will not work. You *must* review the database upgrade steps documented in the README and in

[rt-users] Migrating to RT4 with external auth

2011-08-26 Thread Yan Seiner
I have 3.8.10 set up with local users. We will be migrating to 4.0 with external auth. I'd like to keep the users' tickets straight but I messed up when I set up the original database. The 3.8.10 instance uses local users with first names all in lower case. Our AD uses first name and last

Re: [rt-users] Migrating to RT4 with external auth

2011-08-26 Thread Yan Seiner
On Fri, August 26, 2011 3:00 pm, Kevin Falcone wrote: You might be able to convince LDAPImport to look users up by the email address in AD and correct the username. Otherwise you're probably looking at a one off script. The one off is probably simpler. Is it as simple as changing the

[rt-users] su for rt?

2011-08-22 Thread Yan Seiner
Is there anything like su for RT? I'd like to be able to check on users' ability to see certain tickets. It's disruptive to ask them (and keep asking them while I figure out which layer of permissions is causing me headaches.) Any way I can use something like 'su' to assume a user's identity

[rt-users] RT 3.8.10 and 4.0.1 in apache vritual hosts - possible?

2011-08-10 Thread Yan Seiner
I've been struggling to get two instances of RT running on the same server. One is our current 3.8.10 and the other is a proposed migration to 4.0.1. I am installing from source. I'm finding that since FastCGI in apache is configured at the server level and not at the virtual host level, and

Re: [rt-users] RT 3.8.10 and 4.0.1 in apache vritual hosts - possible?

2011-08-10 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, August 10, 2011 8:29 am, Thomas Sibley wrote: On 08/10/2011 11:18 AM, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm finding that since FastCGI in apache is configured at the server level and not at the virtual host level, and 3.8 and 4.0 use different fastCGI handlers, I can get one running and not the other

[rt-users] Debian RT install woes

2011-08-09 Thread Yan Seiner
Probably self-caused, but now I'm stuck. I need to install both versions 3.8 and 4.0 on our test server. We have a running 3.8 installation (on another server) and we want to migrate it. For now we want to try various changes on the 3.8 tree; once that's stable we will migrate to 4.0. So

Re: [rt-users] Debian RT install woes

2011-08-09 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, August 9, 2011 10:48 am, Ruslan Zakirov wrote: It's hard to help without Apache config and site configs. I will send these separately for RT 3.8 root@svr-rt:/etc/request-tracker3.8# cat RT_SiteConfig.pm | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$ my $zone = UTC; $zone=`/bin/cat /etc/timezone` if

Re: [rt-users] Debian RT install woes

2011-08-09 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, August 9, 2011 10:48 am, Ruslan Zakirov wrote: It's hard to help without Apache config and site configs. I will send these separately for RT 4.0 root@svr-rt:/etc/request-tracker4# cat RT_SiteConfig.pm | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$ my $zone = UTC; $zone=`/bin/cat /etc/timezone` if -f

[rt-users] Custom field file uploads delted on status change?

2011-08-08 Thread Yan Seiner
We have a custom field set up as a file upload. On status change, the attachment gets deleted: # Mon Aug 08 12:07:43 2011 Amy Widmer - #11030-Approved Estimate.pdf added # Mon Aug 08 12:08:38 2011 Amy Widmer - Status changed from 'new' to 'open' # Mon Aug 08 12:08:38 2011 Amy Widmer -

Re: [rt-users] two side-by-side installations

2011-08-05 Thread Yan Seiner
Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:02:41AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: We're about to migrate RT to our own servers. During the transition and testing phase, we want to run 2 side-by-side installations so we can work with 3.8.10 and 4.0.1 and see which one works for us better

[rt-users] Case sensitive searching?

2011-07-29 Thread Yan Seiner
I just found some strange behavior in the Ticket Search. When I try to search on content, it appears to be case sensitive. Per the MySQL docs, the LIKE operator is case inseinsitive: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/string-comparison-functions.html Howner, if I search using Content LIKE

[rt-users] Threading of comments

2011-07-19 Thread Yan Seiner
Does anyone know if the comments can be threaded? Right now they appear in chronological order. A user can Reply or Comment at the root level of the ticket, or to a specific comment. It would be useful to us to ahve the replies and comments to comments group together as in a threaded view.

[rt-users] Special Projects Queue

2011-07-14 Thread Yan Seiner
I am setting up a special projects queue. We have several special projects which involve a team of about 8-10 people from both inside and outside the company. The basic idea is that each project gets a root ticket in the queue, with the team members set up as adminCCs. The adminCCs have a broad

Re: [rt-users] Special Projects Queue

2011-07-14 Thread Yan Seiner
them separated by Group/role rather than clumping them together. This might allow you to debug your current situation as well, especially if you granted some of these AdminCc roles GLOBAL rights. Just a thought. Hope it helps. Kenn LBNL On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Yan Seiner y

Re: [rt-users] Special Projects Queue

2011-07-14 Thread Yan Seiner
On Thu, July 14, 2011 10:22 am, Thomas Sibley wrote: On 07/14/2011 01:19 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: This is a special case. We have a project that will run several years, and involve several consultants, and probalby spawn a few hundred (or more) tickets. With that level of activity, why

Re: [rt-users] Custom Fields (Applies to Ticket Transactions) - not saving at ticket level

2011-07-12 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, July 12, 2011 3:00 pm, Kevin Falcone wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 09:55:21AM +1000, Joanne Keown wrote: I'm obviously missing something. I have created a number of custom fields and set them as applying to Ticket Transactions, on the expectation that these would allow me to

Re: [rt-users] RTx::Tags

2011-07-07 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, July 6, 2011 4:36 pm, Edward Frye wrote: I am trying to work with this plugin, I would like to limit what gets displayed to those where a tag is used more than one time rather than every tag I have which has gotten out of hand. I can't help you but thanks for pointing this out. I

[rt-users] Creating a child ticket in a different queue?

2011-07-05 Thread Yan Seiner
The subject pretty much says it all. We are runing 3.8.10. When you create a child ticket, it is created in the same queue. The ticket creation page doesn't give you the opportunity to select a different queue. It is possible to remove that restriction and creaate a ticket in a different

[rt-users] Scrolling marguee or info window

2011-06-30 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm looking for an info bar of some sort that I could put on users' dashboards for announcements. It would be nice to notify users of updates, new features, important dates and events, etc. Is anyone aware of anythihng like that? It doesn't have to scroll but it should display text that updates

[rt-users] RT:Action:AutoOpen fails

2011-06-24 Thread Yan Seiner
I've managed to stump myself really well. I am trying to modify the RT:Action:AutoOpen. My modifed version fails. So I tried running just the plain version that came with my 3.8.10 system. This is running on a linux box: subutil@thermal ~/rt3 $ uname -a Linux thermal 2.6.32.27-grsec-gt-r2 #1

[rt-users] creating static web pages of tickets

2011-06-21 Thread Yan Seiner
We have field crews that have laptops but no internet connection. The laptops have maps and snapshots of our database so they can retrieve the information they need. The laptops are updated regularly with new information. We are now starting to incorporate RT tickets as URL hotlinks into our

[rt-users] rt command always returns 404

2011-06-21 Thread Yan Seiner
No matter what I try, the command line interface always returns 404. I can mis-spell something in the config file and it generates an error; I can misspel the URL and it returns a DNS error. So I'm assuming I have all the bits right but no ticket info: subutil@thermal ~ $ ./rt3/bin/rt show

[rt-users] Thumbnails from attachments?

2011-06-14 Thread Yan Seiner
We have field crews that send pictures into RT tickets from job sites. This is a great help as we get instant notification of issues and also for as-builts. Typically the crews will send a picture and a text description of image as a comment to the ticket. As the crews send us more and more

Re: [rt-users] Thumbnails from attachments?

2011-06-14 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com wrote: We have field crews that send pictures into RT tickets from job sites. This is a great help as we get instant notification of issues and also for as-builts. Typically the crews will send a picture and a text description

Re: [rt-users] Thumbnails from attachments?

2011-06-14 Thread Yan Seiner
Hmmm Some investigating. If we create a comment via the RT web interface and attach an image, it comes up in the history as an image and we can see it. However, if someone sends an image via email as a reply to a comment, the image doesn't show up; instead there's the comment: Message body

Re: [rt-users] Thumbnails from attachments?

2011-06-14 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, June 14, 2011 11:11 am, Kenneth Crocker wrote: Yan, You betcha. Change that setting in your RT_SiteConfig.pm file in /opt/rt3/etc and that will do it. *Set($ShowTransactionImages, 1); *might just do it. No joy; still get the inline comment. I'm curious as to why you have the

Re: [rt-users] Thumbnails from attachments?

2011-06-14 Thread Yan Seiner
HAH! This one-line patch does what I need: --- ./share/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowTransactionAttachments 2011-04-20 10:22:32.177315771 -0700 +++ local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowTransactionAttachments 2011-06-14 11:37:22.166621835 -0700 @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ # if it's an image, show

[rt-users] Setting a primary queue for users and changing queue on take

2011-06-13 Thread Yan Seiner
I have new tickets arrive in the General queue. I don't allow users to own tickets in the general queue. (They just keep them there, making it harder to keep things tidy.) Right now users have to edit the general ticket to change the queue to their own, and then take the ticket once it's in the

[rt-users] RT training options

2011-06-10 Thread Yan Seiner
We're looking at getting some end-user training. I've contacted Best Practical, and I'm also looking for any organizations that might provide webinars or other training. Anyone know of any organizations in the Pacific North West that might provide training? How do people go about training their

[rt-users] Eliminting almost all email noitifications

2011-06-06 Thread Yan Seiner
OK, I have a request... Most of my RT users are getting overwhelmed by emails. I'd like to eliminate all outgoing emails except when the sender uses the One Time AdminCC email line. An email always gets sent to the One Time AdminCC. The only other email is on Owner change to notify the new

[rt-users] Order of attachments

2011-06-02 Thread Yan Seiner
Is there some way to specify the order of attachments? Either alphabetical or by date would work. Right now they seem to be in random order. We're running 3.8.10. I found some old references to Set($OldestTransactionsFirst, '1'); but that seems to have no effect in 3.8.10. -- My daughter

Re: [rt-users] Adding Queue to comment/reply section

2011-05-26 Thread Yan Seiner
We do something similar. We have engineering and construction queues. When Engineering is done with design and the job is ready to go to the crews, we move it to construction queue. Right now it involves the following steps: 1. Change the queue 2. Change the owner to the Construction Manager

[rt-users] Workflow HOWTO

2011-05-26 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm struggling with implementing approvals. Here's how we work: An engineer designs a project. Once s/he's done, s/he has a supervisor approve the design and cost estimate. This approval may need several levels depending on the overall cost estimate (we're a public utility and the approvals are

[rt-users] Selecting which files to send in replies?

2011-05-25 Thread Yan Seiner
We use RT to track construction projects. As the ticket develops, drawings, permits, etc. are scanned and attached to the ticket. At times we need to send copies of specific items that have been attached to requestors. Is it possible to select existing attachments to send with the reply email?

[rt-users] Send email from within RT

2011-05-24 Thread Yan Seiner
We often find ourselves in a position where we need to send email to peopl who are not necessarily CCs or AdminCC. Typically this might be outside parties who review a project we're tracking. I've been looking for a way to do this and found this:

Re: [rt-users] Send email from within RT

2011-05-24 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, May 24, 2011 9:00 am, Jesse Vincent wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:57:35AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: We often find ourselves in a position where we need to send email to peopl who are not necessarily CCs or AdminCC. Typically this might be outside parties who review a project

Re: [rt-users] Send email from within RT

2011-05-24 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, May 24, 2011 9:29 am, Yan Seiner wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 9:00 am, Jesse Vincent wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:57:35AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: We often find ourselves in a position where we need to send email to peopl who are not necessarily CCs or AdminCC. Typically

[rt-users] Sending attachments as links

2011-05-24 Thread Yan Seiner
We're using RT to manage construction jobs. Right now, every time someone adds an attachment, RT generates an email with the attachment to the AdminCCs. This is giving us headaches; some of our attachments are 20MB and this gives email systems fits. Is it possible to change the template to send

Re: [rt-users] Sending attachments as links

2011-05-24 Thread Yan Seiner
Zakirov wrote: http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/AddAttachmentLinksToMail On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com wrote: We're using RT to manage construction jobs.  Right now, every time someone adds an attachment, RT generates an email with the attachment to the AdminCCs

Re: [rt-users] Sending attachments as links

2011-05-24 Thread Yan Seiner
HA! The template has RT-Attach-Message: yes change that to RT-Attach-Message: no and no more attachments. POOF! (OK, probably obvious to all you seasoned hands but us newbies struggle with the basics.) On Tue, May 24, 2011 4:26 pm, Yan Seiner wrote: I did that. I now get the links but I

Re: [rt-users] Rt and field crews

2011-05-20 Thread Yan Seiner
can create a special print view as combination of customized Display.html and custom style sheet. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com wrote: We're using RT to manage work crews.  We have crews that go out and work on various projects.  We have a crew that specifically

[rt-users] Roles in history not being translated

2011-05-20 Thread Yan Seiner
I created a new .po file to change the role names displayed for the various roles used in RT. This works really well in most cases. For example, I changed AdminCC to Team Member, which better describes our role. I built the .po file and now I have most of the labels changed to what I want.

Re: [rt-users] Changing Owner, AdminCC and CC labels

2011-05-18 Thread Yan Seiner
On Tue, May 17, 2011 6:50 pm, Thomas Sibley wrote: On 05/17/2011 04:17 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: Is it possible to change the Owner, AdminCC and CC labels? The roles really correspond to Team Leader, Team Member, and Secondary Requestor the way we're structured and it would make life a bit

Re: [rt-users] Linking to RT from MS Excel

2011-05-18 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, May 4, 2011 4:53 pm, Lai Zit Seng wrote: On May 5, 2011, at 7:10 AM, Yan Seiner wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 3:48 pm, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to set up a link from a MS Excel spreadsheet to an RT ticket. I've tried the hyperlink function and also a directl link; no matter what

[rt-users] Rt and field crews

2011-05-17 Thread Yan Seiner
We're using RT to manage work crews. We have crews that go out and work on various projects. We have a crew that specifically deals with small projects; these are small one day or less jobs. Dispatch gets a work order, typically by phone. She takes down the information, location, etc. on a

[rt-users] Changing Owner, AdminCC and CC labels

2011-05-17 Thread Yan Seiner
Is it possible to change the Owner, AdminCC and CC labels? The roles really correspond to Team Leader, Team Member, and Secondary Requestor the way we're structured and it would make life a bit simpler if we could actually see those labels. -- My daughter is racing a triathlon to raise money

Re: [rt-users] Complex question re tickets, custom fields, and queues

2011-05-14 Thread Yan Seiner
I think you could set the adminCC for locations A-E to the group that needs to see those. Then build a My Team search that displays all tickets for which you are owner or AdminCC. This will do what you want, I think, at least in terms of finding and displaying those tickets. Alexander

[rt-users] Placing custom fields where I want them

2011-05-13 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm using 3.8.10. I need to develop a couple of forms with a large number of custom fields. It looks like the custom fields are placed on the ticket in the order they are created. Is there some way to specify the location/order of the fields? Also, is there some way to change the size of

[rt-users] Using RT to track outgoing requests

2011-05-11 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm following up on this thread: http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-users/2011-April/070205.html I am very interested in making this work. We often need to communicate with outside agencies and being able to push a ticket to an outside agent would be very useful. --Yan -- My

[rt-users] Radio button or yes/no custom field

2011-05-06 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm using 3.8.1. Is there any way to create a checkbox or a yes/no custom field with a default to 'no'? Select one value doesn't do it as it always presents a third choice '-' and the window is 5 lines. The autocomplete doesn't quite do it. I just need a checkbox to flag a ticket a certain

Re: [rt-users] Radio button or yes/no custom field

2011-05-06 Thread Yan Seiner
On Fri, May 6, 2011 3:30 pm, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm using 3.8.1. Is there any way to create a checkbox or a yes/no custom field with a default to 'no'? I just need a checkbox to flag a ticket a certain way. Never mind; found the extension right after I posted. -- If you have eight hours

[rt-users] Watched queues

2011-05-05 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm stuck on the best way to set this up: Our department is set up as a bunch of workgroups. I have a queue set up for each workgroup. 4As things stand, it makes sense to allow anyone to create a ticket for any other workgroup and to monitor all the tickets in their workgroup. It does not make

[rt-users] Linking to RT from MS Excel

2011-05-04 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm trying to set up a link from a MS Excel spreadsheet to an RT ticket. I've tried the hyperlink function and also a directl link; no matter what I do RT only goes to the home page. Hyperlinking directly to a ticket seems to work otherwise. Is there something particular about excel that makes

Re: [rt-users] Linking to RT from MS Excel

2011-05-04 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, May 4, 2011 3:48 pm, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to set up a link from a MS Excel spreadsheet to an RT ticket. I've tried the hyperlink function and also a directl link; no matter what I do RT only goes to the home page. Hyperlinking directly to a ticket seems to work otherwise

[rt-users] newbie question on email notifications

2011-04-29 Thread Yan Seiner
Can I get the idiot's condensed version of email notifications? I have an installtion of RT. Most of my users are sporadic users; they may get a ticket once a week or so. I need to set up email notifications when something happens to a ticket with their name on it. For example: when a ticket

Re: [rt-users] Using RT to track outgoing requests

2011-04-27 Thread Yan Seiner
Nathan Ward wrote: On 27/04/2011, at 10:15 PM, Raed El-Hames wrote: Nathan: There are different ways of dealing with the scenario you have. What I do in here in a set up very similar to yours, is create a ticket with the customer contact as a requestor, When 3rd party supplier needed I

[rt-users] Users Handbook

2011-04-18 Thread Yan Seiner
Is there a Users Handbook available? I will be deploying RT as a pilot project and would like to have some materials for the users to refer to. --Yan -- If you have eight hours to chop down a tree spend six sharpening your axe. --Abraham Lincoln

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