[rt-users] Have filtered select custom field options

2009-03-19 Thread Aaron Guise
Hi All,

I just wonder as I have a suggestion from our management whether it is
possible to have a custom field which is filtered by aselection made in an
earlier select box.

For example say: I have one CF which is for Business Area and based on the
selection made here a second list will need to have values filtered and
specific to the specific business area.

Would such a thing be at all possible?

*Regards,*

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[rt-users] Odd behaviour with RT::Authen::ExternalAuth...

2009-03-19 Thread Gary Greene
I'm running into a small issue with RT::Authen::ExternalAuth.

The issue I'm having is that when I post a reply to a ticket or attempt to 
create a new ticket, it punts me to the login screen again. Once I've 
authenticated again, it completes the task. Thing is, I was already logged into 
the web UI in the first place. This is with RT version 3.8.1 and 
RT::Authen::ExternalAuth version 0.08.

Any insight to this would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Re: [rt-users] XML-RPC to RT

2009-03-19 Thread Jesse Vincent



On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:01:20PM -0700, Tom Lahti wrote:
> I've done something a bit evil, and perhaps a bit useful.
> 
> Previously on the list someone asked about having a web service to RT, and I
> pointed out that it already has one (a REST interface).
> 
> But what if you have an environment where REST access is difficult at
> best... say, classic ASP or (egads) VB6?
> 
> Well, I just took the ruby library I have and wrapped every method in a
> XML-RPC service... and it works.  
> 
> I hope I get to release this stuff.  I'll include the XML-RPC service in the
> package if I get to.  

Sick. But Awesome.  I look forward to seeing this and hope your
corporate overlords let you open this up.

Jesse
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Re: [rt-users] LDAP integration question

2009-03-19 Thread Daniel Farst
You'll want to look into the ExternalAuth extension for RT 
(http://wiki.bestpractical.com/view/ExternalAuth). It supports login via LDAP.

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--
> Greetings all,
> I'm only in the early analysis stage of trying to figure
> out if RT is a good fit for us.  We currently use Trac for our ticketing
> system, which is workable, but not universally liked (being more of
> an appropriate solution for an ongoing open-source project 
> than it is for a small college IT helpdesk).  Anyhow, I have a test
> instance of RT+AssetTracker up and running on an old 
> underpowered VM, but I'm definitely only scratching the surface (I
> have the _RT Essentials_ book but I haven't yet read it all the 
> way through).  My question is about how to leverage our LDAP
> directory in order to allow end-users to create tickets.  We have a 
> small enough staff that creating local RT users for our admin
> personnel is not a problem (I have no requirement to also sync this 
> information from LDAP as it's easily manageable as an independent
> data silo (living within the RT database backend I presume)). 
> But what is the canonical solution for allowing our users to login
> to the web interface (using their existing usernames/passwords 
> which we already have set in LDAP (for their email accounts among
> other uses))?  Do I want to be leveraging the HTTP-auth stuff 
> from apache (I believe this is how we solve this issue with Trac
> currently), or is there a way to have RT directly query a 
> specific PAM layer that's been configured correctly (to back
> against our LDAP) on the RT server?  Or maybe there's a different way
> to accomplish what I want.  I made it into the beginning of the
> chapter on scrips last night, so I have no doubt that (given more 
> perl coding chops than I currently possess) there are definitely
> enough tools available to solve this problem, but it seemed worth 
> asking for direction (as I can't imagine I'm the first person to want to do 
> this).

> thanks so much in advance for any information,
> ~c
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Re: [rt-users] RT to support software development teams when using Agile / SCRUM approaches to planning work

2009-03-19 Thread Rüdiger Wolf
Ok Thanks for your feedback.

Scrum in 5 minutes
http://www.softhouse.se/Uploades/Scrum_eng_webb.pdf

Based on what you say it seems like the following might work.

Each project/team has a BACKLOG QUEUE of stories(requirements). The
product owner regularly prioritizes them.
During the fortnightly planning meeting the product owner selects some
stories from the BACKLOG and moves them to the CURRENT SPRINT QUEUE
prioritizing them as he/she does so.
Team members select stories from the CURRENT SPRINT QUEUE and add child
tasks.
When all the tasks are done for a particular story, the story is moved
to a REVIEW QUEUE.
During the sprint review meeting the product owner reviews the features
related to stories in the REVIEW QUEUE and stories are marked as done.

Is it possible to roll up child data into a parent?
The question might be how many hours of work are remaining for this
story?
Hours work for a story(parent) = sum of remaining work estimate for all
its tasks(child).

Is it easy to create child tasks? And navigate through them via the web
interface?

Thanks
Rudiger


On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:10 -0700, "Ken Crocker" 
wrote:
> Rudiger,
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to "SCRUM". However, we 
> ARE supporting many software applications with technical support teams 
> and Queues oriented for each application/team. We have 1 queue 
> specifically designed to act as the initial request Queue where tickets 
> are reviewed and prioritized, then (if approved) moved to the queue that 
> supports the application the ticket is asking work for. For example, one 
> large support group, Financial, supports all the various software 
> dealing with our financial organizations and they have 12 different 
> queues for that activity. There are, consequently at least 24 different 
> groups,  where each queue has a user group that WORKS on the tickets and 
> another that is allowed to CREATE tickets (some that have the same 
> members).  Our structure for privileges is rather tight (only a couple 
> for "Priviliged" Users. Mostly Queue-oriented)) that allow for keeping 
> tickets secure (only the OWNER and the Queue Manager can Modify a 
> Ticket) within their queue. We also have a QA Workflow process that 
> ensures our standard for QA Approval is followed before a ticket is 
> allowed to be "QA Approved" and then Resolved (for example, we NEVER 
> allow the ticket owner to QA Approve their own work). A separate user 
> from the QA Approval group are the only ones with privileges to modify 
> the CF that is used to indicate QA Approval.
> Anyway, that's pretty much a summary of how we do things. If the 
> details of any of this will help you, then I'd be glad to share how we 
> do it.
> 
> Kenn
> LBNL
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[rt-users] XML-RPC to RT

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Lahti
I've done something a bit evil, and perhaps a bit useful.

Previously on the list someone asked about having a web service to RT, and I
pointed out that it already has one (a REST interface).

But what if you have an environment where REST access is difficult at
best... say, classic ASP or (egads) VB6?

Well, I just took the ruby library I have and wrapped every method in a
XML-RPC service... and it works.  Only took me about an hour.  There could
just as easily be a wrapper using the json package as well.  Of course, its
a security nightmare because no encryption in XML-RPC...you'd have to use SSL.

And of course, the wisdom of making a web service that accesses another web
service... dubious at best.  If you're environment is that difficult to work
with, switch environments right? ;)

I hope I get to release this stuff.  I'll include the XML-RPC service in the
package if I get to.  I actually plan to use this from a classic ASP web
site; I really don't want to write a RT::Client::REST equivalent in ASP.
The thought makes me nauseous.

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[rt-users] LDAP integration question

2009-03-19 Thread charlie derr
Greetings all,
I'm only in the early analysis stage of trying to figure out if RT is a 
good fit for us.  We currently use Trac for our ticketing 
system, which is workable, but not universally liked (being more of an 
appropriate solution for an ongoing open-source project 
than it is for a small college IT helpdesk).  Anyhow, I have a test instance of 
RT+AssetTracker up and running on an old 
underpowered VM, but I'm definitely only scratching the surface (I have the _RT 
Essentials_ book but I haven't yet read it all the 
way through).  My question is about how to leverage our LDAP directory in order 
to allow end-users to create tickets.  We have a 
small enough staff that creating local RT users for our admin personnel is not 
a problem (I have no requirement to also sync this 
information from LDAP as it's easily manageable as an independent data silo 
(living within the RT database backend I presume)). 
But what is the canonical solution for allowing our users to login to the web 
interface (using their existing usernames/passwords 
which we already have set in LDAP (for their email accounts among other uses))? 
 Do I want to be leveraging the HTTP-auth stuff 
from apache (I believe this is how we solve this issue with Trac currently), or 
is there a way to have RT directly query a 
specific PAM layer that's been configured correctly (to back against our LDAP) 
on the RT server?  Or maybe there's a different way 
to accomplish what I want.  I made it into the beginning of the chapter on 
scrips last night, so I have no doubt that (given more 
perl coding chops than I currently possess) there are definitely enough tools 
available to solve this problem, but it seemed worth 
asking for direction (as I can't imagine I'm the first person to want to do 
this).

thanks so much in advance for any information,
~c
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Re: [rt-users] RT to support software development teams when using Agile / SCRUM approaches to planning work

2009-03-19 Thread Ken Crocker

Tom,


   Thanks for the link. After reading the info, I believe that RT could 
/easily/ be used to promote such a process. Some terms would have to be 
re-named or their meaning translated, but the overall process design is 
VERY similar to what we do now in our organization. I have developed 
quite a bit of documentation (guides, flowcharts, rules, definitions, 
etc.) that supports our method for getting work done in this manner. 
SCRUM is a whole new set of terminology, but the process isn't much 
different than the way I did things 35 years ago in a Forbes 100 
company. Interesting how some things just seem to cycle around, but with 
newer coats of paint.



Kenn
LBNL

On 3/19/2009 12:38 PM, Tom Lahti wrote:

Ken Crocker wrote:
  

Rudiger,


I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to "SCRUM".



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)

P.S.  I hate scrum :/


  
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Re: [rt-users] RT to support software development teams when using Agile / SCRUM approaches to planning work

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Lahti
Ken Crocker wrote:
> Rudiger,
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to "SCRUM".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)

P.S.  I hate scrum :/


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Re: [rt-users] RT to support software development teams when using Agile / SCRUM approaches to planning work

2009-03-19 Thread Ken Crocker
Rudiger,


I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to "SCRUM". However, we 
ARE supporting many software applications with technical support teams 
and Queues oriented for each application/team. We have 1 queue 
specifically designed to act as the initial request Queue where tickets 
are reviewed and prioritized, then (if approved) moved to the queue that 
supports the application the ticket is asking work for. For example, one 
large support group, Financial, supports all the various software 
dealing with our financial organizations and they have 12 different 
queues for that activity. There are, consequently at least 24 different 
groups,  where each queue has a user group that WORKS on the tickets and 
another that is allowed to CREATE tickets (some that have the same 
members).  Our structure for privileges is rather tight (only a couple 
for "Priviliged" Users. Mostly Queue-oriented)) that allow for keeping 
tickets secure (only the OWNER and the Queue Manager can Modify a 
Ticket) within their queue. We also have a QA Workflow process that 
ensures our standard for QA Approval is followed before a ticket is 
allowed to be "QA Approved" and then Resolved (for example, we NEVER 
allow the ticket owner to QA Approve their own work). A separate user 
from the QA Approval group are the only ones with privileges to modify 
the CF that is used to indicate QA Approval.
Anyway, that's pretty much a summary of how we do things. If the 
details of any of this will help you, then I'd be glad to share how we 
do it.

Kenn
LBNL

On 3/19/2009 10:45 AM, Rüdiger Wolf wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I was hoping to get some feedback from users who are using RT to support
> software development teams when using SCRUM approaches to planning work.
>
> We several project teams and keeping people allocated to project for
> several months at a time.
> We track work based on several tasks (child) related to single story
> (Parent).
> We also track impediments.
> Use two week long iterations. At the end of iterations there are
> sometimes several stories and tasks that need to be moved into the next
> iteration. Stories (and related tasks) need to be moved from a backlog
> queue to the current iteration. 
>
> I would like a project team members to look at stories (sorted by
> priority) and related tasks for the current iteration and take ownership
> of tasks.
> Team would like to quickly answer/update tasks in order to provide
> answers for stand-up questions. What did you do yesterday? what are you
> doing today?
>
> I would like to be able to report on story, task and impediment
> life-cycles for project and iterations.
> I see that there is talk of a REST style interface so I assume that one
> could write script to extract issue data quite quickly.
> I could then create burn down charts etc. as required from the extracted
> data.
>
> One feature I REALLY like in our current system is the ability to export
> stories/tasks/impediments to excel.
> Update values in excel. 
> Next one uploads stories/tasks/impediments back into the tracker via web
> interface.
> I see that there is a possibility of creating and updating in bulk via
> the web interface.
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> Regards
> Rudi Wolf
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Re: [rt-users] Automatic Ticket Creation based on CustomFields

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Lahti
hanane ourdani wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Please is there a way to generate ticket automaticlly when i chose a value
> of a custom field in an other ticket.

You can write a new scrip that happens on condition "On Transaction" and do
my $TicketObj = RT::Ticket->new( $session{'CurrentUser'} );
somewhere in the scrip.

I don't write many scrips so others can provide more details if you need them.

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[rt-users] Automatic Ticket Creation based on CustomFields

2009-03-19 Thread hanane ourdani
Hi everyone,

Please is there a way to generate ticket automaticlly when i chose a value
of a custom field in an other ticket.


thank you for your help
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[rt-users] RT to support software development teams when using Agile / SCRUM approaches to planning work

2009-03-19 Thread Rüdiger Wolf
Hi All

I was hoping to get some feedback from users who are using RT to support
software development teams when using SCRUM approaches to planning work.

We several project teams and keeping people allocated to project for
several months at a time.
We track work based on several tasks (child) related to single story
(Parent).
We also track impediments.
Use two week long iterations. At the end of iterations there are
sometimes several stories and tasks that need to be moved into the next
iteration. Stories (and related tasks) need to be moved from a backlog
queue to the current iteration. 

I would like a project team members to look at stories (sorted by
priority) and related tasks for the current iteration and take ownership
of tasks.
Team would like to quickly answer/update tasks in order to provide
answers for stand-up questions. What did you do yesterday? what are you
doing today?

I would like to be able to report on story, task and impediment
life-cycles for project and iterations.
I see that there is talk of a REST style interface so I assume that one
could write script to extract issue data quite quickly.
I could then create burn down charts etc. as required from the extracted
data.

One feature I REALLY like in our current system is the ability to export
stories/tasks/impediments to excel.
Update values in excel. 
Next one uploads stories/tasks/impediments back into the tracker via web
interface.
I see that there is a possibility of creating and updating in bulk via
the web interface.

Thanks for your comments.

Regards
Rudi Wolf
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Re: [rt-users] no root/password - first login problem

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Lahti
Juliano Medeiros Coimbra wrote:

> [Thu Mar 19 11:19:39 2009] [error]: Password needs to be at least 66
> characters long (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/RT/Handle.pm:796)

Password needs to be HOW long?!

Have you checked your MinPasswordLength in RT_SiteConfig.pm and/or
SiteConfig.pm (if you've been silly enough to edit that)?


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Re: [rt-users] Getting the following Error on deleting "ObjectCustomFields" table from RT d/b

2009-03-19 Thread Tom Lahti
Jnaneshwar Bantanur wrote:
>> Hello ..After I tried to delete the rough data which I have put Just to
>> evaluate RT.After Deleting Users,Queues,Groups and Attachments After
>> Deleting the data from table "ObjectCustomFields".I am getting this

Do NOT go into the database and muck around with it by deleting records
directly and what not.  As you have learned, by doing so you have destroyed
the referential integrity of the database.

You will need to simply drop the database and recreate it from scratch, as
if you were just installing it for the first time.

If you want to purge tickets from the database, use the "shredder" in the
web interface.

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[rt-users] 3.8.1 Missing tabs and modifying create.html

2009-03-19 Thread G.Booth



Hi All(first time mailer, please be gentle :-])


Ive upgraded a test box from 3.6.5 to 3.8.1 (running a 
relatively old kernel for fedora core 
- 2.6.26.8-57.fc8) and have hit an odd problem with the 
menu tabs for Preferences. All other tabs appear 
correctly.
/User/Prefs.html has

<& /Elements/Header, Title=>loc("Preferences") &>
<& /User/Elements/Tabs,
    current_tab => 'User/Prefs.html',
    Title=>loc("Preferences") &>

the tabs file exists yet is being ignored - this isnt a 
local version of the Prefs file.
Take another eg Tools

<& /Elements/Header, Title => loc("Tools") &>
<& Elements/Tabs,
    current_tab => "Tools/index.html",
    Title => loc("Tools") &>

and all is well

the only difference is the line after these

<& /Elements/ListMenu, items => $tabs &>

Prefs is different

<& /Elements/ListActions, actions => \...@results &>

but Im sure this is a red herring


Im logged in as an RT Administrator so Im fairly sure its 
not a permissions thing and I can modify the path to cause 
the system to barf if it cant find the tabs file. It just 
seems to ignore it.



My second question is more of a development one regarding 
Create.html, specifiaclly in Self Service.
In order to get the same name everytime through the self 
service interface I want to modify the requestor field so 
it doesnt allow change (e.g. is no longer an INPUT box). 
This way the user is locked and always 
$session{CurrentUser}->EmailAddress.

This is the snip of code Im trying to replace in 
SelfService/Create.html



<&|/l&>Requestors:


<& /Elements/EmailInput, Name => 'Requestors', Size => 
'20', Default => $session{CurrentUser}->EmailAddress &>




Closest I ve got is to turn both it and the cc field into 
unchangable text, but I cant seem to get just the 
requestor field.
Was hoping there was an easy way to do this, preferably 
without having to drastically modify Create and 
EmailInput.

Like I said any thoughts gratefully received



Regards


garry

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Re: [rt-users] Email delay on ticket creation - SOLVED

2009-03-19 Thread Derek Cunningham
On 3/12/09 10:45 AM, "Bill Cole" 
wrote:

> Derek Cunningham wrote, On 3/12/09 8:30 AM:
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> I really appreciate your time and helpful answers.  They have certainly
>> pointed me in the right direction, and I'll update the list when I have it
>> solved.
>> 
>> It's been a bit of a challenge to make this run on Mac OS X, all kinds of
>> different preinstalled software points to that it 'should' work easily, but
>> time and time again I find myself fighting against what should be simple
>> config changes that have been harder to solve than I though it should be.
> 
> It is useful to keep in mind that Apple acts strategically, even when it
> looks like they are just being sloppy. MacOS X *Server* is a premium-priced
> product and has very few truly secret differences from the standard version
> of MacOS X that comes with a personal Mac, it is mostly a matter of
> configuration; the desktop version of the system is aggressively configured
> towards use as a personal computer that is almost exclusively used through
> the GUI by one person at a time. The Postfix config is an example of this,
> and if you want Postfix on a Mac to behave like a normal server instance of
> Postfix, you should either replace it altogether or at least fix the lack of
> wakeup settings in master.cf. That may also require you to watch out for
> Apple regressing the change in future updates, but it won't break anything
> that already works.
> 
>> At least I have some much more focused searches to make about the postfix
>> config.  I will try changing RT's $MailCommand and $SendmailArguments first
>> and see if that makes the difference.
> 
> Well, despite my digression on that option I think that is a second-best
> approach. It is something one might try if one does not have administrative
> control of the mail subsystem or has some need to keep the no-wakeup model.
> The 'sendmailpipe' option for $MailCommand is a much more efficient
> approach, and I wouldn't suggest switching to 'sendmail' on a high-volume RT
> machine. I'm not even sure that change will solve the queue delay problem
> completely. My hypothesis is that it will avoid the problem by serializing
> the queueing of messages for multiple recipients so that the Postfix
> 'pickup' process can't win a parallel race with a 'sendmail -oi -t' process
> that has to parse multiple recipients out of a Bcc header.


Sure enough, it was the postfix configuration.  Thanks for suggesting it
Bill - I just put default Postfix (not Apple) times for wakeup on pickup,
qmgr and flush in the master.cf, Apple sets them to "-".  I had already
enabled pickup, which had things partially working, but missed qmgr and
flush.

Thanks for the assist!  I now happily have RT 3.8.1 running on Mac OS X 10.4
client.

In all reality, most services needed to make it all happen were in place,
but needed to be activated and slightly reconfigured.  None of it was too
difficult, but none of it was exactly 'out of the box' either...

-Derek


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Re: [rt-users] no root/password - first login problem

2009-03-19 Thread Juliano Medeiros Coimbra

Hello again.
I updated my system, now it's Fedora Core 10, Apache 2 and RT 3.8.2.
I tried the root/password in the login page and I still get "wrong user 
name or password".


Here is some issues in the ini command for the database:
[r...@jjj ~]# /usr/sbin/rt-setup-database --action init --dba root 
--prompt-for-dba-password
In order to create or update your RT database, this script needs to 
connect to your  mysql instance on localhost as root
Please specify that user's database password below. If the user has no 
database

password, just press return.

Password:
Working with:
Type:   mysql
Host:   localhost
Name:   rt3
User:   rt3
DBA:root
Now creating a mysql database rt3 for RT.
Done.
Now populating database schema.
Done.
Now inserting database ACLs
Granting access to rt3@'localhost' on rt3.
Done.
Now inserting RT core system objects
Done.
Now inserting data
[Thu Mar 19 11:19:39 2009] [error]: Password needs to be at least 66 
characters long (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/RT/Handle.pm:796)
[Thu Mar 19 11:19:39 2009] [error]: Couldn't get principal for not 
loaded object (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/RT/User_Overlay.pm:1154)
[Thu Mar 19 11:19:39 2009] [crit]: Can't call method "GrantRight" on an 
undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/RT/Handle.pm line 
910. (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/RT.pm:377)
Can't call method "GrantRight" on an undefined value at 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/RT/Handle.pm line 910.


Regards,
Juliano
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