Re: [rt-users] Emailing (=contacting users) via RT?

2008-12-12 Thread Bob Goldstein
I might have an analogous situtation. Our security team might find a machine they have to filter off the network. They can lookup the net admin for that department, and they want to create an RT ticket with that admin as CC, so they can record the subsequent interactions. They want all email

Re: [rt-users] Paid assistance

2008-04-22 Thread Bob Goldstein
I have spent three days trying to get my RT installation working, I have given up in frustration. It seems any minor item out of whack causes a complete failure in RT. I have asked for help on this mailing list but no-one has offered any insights into the problems I am experiencing. Is there

Re: [rt-users] RT as a intranet portal? Or other suggestions?

2008-04-16 Thread Bob Goldstein
Is there an extension that will make RT look like an intranet portal? To be able to put in articles, upload docs, and such? =20 Or do you guys have any suggestions as a good Intranet Portal I could install on the same box as RT (RHEL5) ? I've been happy with TWiki for our internal needs. A

Re: [rt-users] What criteria do you use when deciding the number of instances of RT?

2008-01-10 Thread Bob Goldstein
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Re: [rt-users] What criteria do you use when deciding the number of instances of RT?

2008-01-09 Thread Bob Goldstein
I work in a university computer center. We try to set up an instance per department or other large unit (e.g. college) on request. Part of it is, I can hand the instance to an admin and say have fun. They can then handle new users, privs, new queues, etc. (I have to connect email

Re: [rt-users] Filtering troublesome tickets with procmail

2007-09-24 Thread Bob Goldstein
Hey everyone, I got burned a few weeks ago when someone in my organization sent a meeting re quest to RT. That produced a bit of a mail storm as the requests started flyin g around. We got it under control, and I've now added a procmail rule to inter cept meeting request emails and send them

Re: [rt-users] Input from any other University or similar

2007-08-22 Thread Bob Goldstein
All, I've been running RT in production for almost 2 years in a fairly large implementation for just the University of Washington's Computing and Communications (central IT infrastructure). We're just about to 220K tickets, after a fairly slow roll out. Last week we had more than 2700 new

Re: [rt-users] Input from any other University or similar

2007-08-22 Thread Bob Goldstein
Bob Goldstein wrote: With our current experience with our implementation, we have been considering some sort of Federated solution -- entirely separate instances of RT that know about each other and that can communicate effectively (transfer/link tickets). Not sure what entirely separate

Re: [rt-users] RT 4

2007-05-25 Thread Bob Goldstein
We are also looking at SugarCRM (and it's ability to work with the Asterisk PBX). Rather than build CRM features into RT, it would be nice (for us) to have RT integrate with SugarCRM as an optional/stronger replacement for the SugarCRM ticket system. I'm all for a better API, for exactly

Re: [rt-users] Customer Centric RT?

2007-05-24 Thread Bob Goldstein
We are currently evaluating a dedicated CRM system versus RT, since we have already running RT for other things. The main aspect that seems common to your problem to me is, that a customer (= a company) is the main object and not the person who created a ticket neither the ticket itself. Yet

Re: [rt-users] RT 4

2007-05-18 Thread Bob Goldstein
Using Nagios as an example. Its written also in Perl, but there's a Java port which basically eliminates the installation completely. Download a bunch JARs and fire up Java. If there was a port of RT in Java - this would do wonders for the adoption rate. Many big corporation don't allow open

Re: [rt-users] RT 4

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Goldstein
In case you are still collecting .. some of my suggestions may already been stated so apology for duplicates; 1- group unprivileged users (so each member of that group can view the group tickets) This one puzzles me. I think others have mentioned it, so I want to comment. In RT, privileged

Re: [rt-users] RT and mysql replication

2007-05-04 Thread Bob Goldstein
Hi. I'd googled about this quesitons, but I'd find no useful information. You can simply tell me RTFM, but please link the FM I must R... ;-) Is there an RT support for mysql replication, a single master/many slave databases simple clustering method described in this page?

Re: [rt-users] RT 4

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Goldstein
If, for the sake of argument, Best Practical were to rewrite RT, what would you want to see in the new product? 1. Full functional API, both local and network accessible. I have in mind integrating RT with other apps, possibly point-to-point, or with some SOA/message bus. This could

Re: [rt-users] RTGUI, a Graphical User Interface for Best Practical's Request Tracker

2007-04-20 Thread Bob Goldstein
Boris Jordanov wrote: A quick and simple description of how things are done. All data that we get from RT is collected directly from the MySQL database. All data that we put back in (create/update tickets) are done through the CommandByMail extension. Not very useful in an open

Re: [rt-users] Google Summer of Code

2007-02-28 Thread Bob Goldstein
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 14:29 -0500, Jesse Vincent wrote: I'd love to submit RT to Google's Summer of Code this summer. It's probably time to start brainstorming projects. What would you like to do/see done as part of a RT summer of code project? A rational, extensible,

Re: [rt-users] CLI Question - Add Users to group per Scrip

2007-02-15 Thread Bob Goldstein
Hi, Again just another question for the CLI Part. Has anyone a idea how to add a set of users per scrip to a group? Lets say, i have a list of 500 User that are needed to be member of a single group? This isn't a direct answer, but several months ago I was wrestling with a similar issue of

Re: [rt-users] WishList - Assign Ticket to a group of user

2007-01-30 Thread Bob Goldstein
Hello list, I just would like to know if this fonctionnality (assign a tiket to a group of users) is planned. I've implemented an home-made version of a wake-up feature, and my wish would be to assign a woke-up ticket to the group of the user that put it into sleep mode, in order that any member

Re: [rt-users] Some thoughts on the Quick Search list

2007-01-30 Thread Bob Goldstein
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:04:39AM +1100, Taan Lindemans wrote: Does anybody else think it would be useful if the Quick Search list could be modified to include saved searches on a per user basis? I think that this might want to be another portlet, but I'd love to see it happen. There

Re: [rt-users] RT-3.6.3 and RTFM 2.2.0RC4 - how to create custom fields?

2007-01-21 Thread Bob Goldstein
In my RT: RTFM - Configuration - Custom Fields (under the RTFM heading) - New Custom Field Then, the applies to contains RTFM articles as well as other entries. bobg This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===1572521251== Content-class:

Re: [rt-users] features question.

2007-01-19 Thread Bob Goldstein
Hi, I've been using RT 3.2.1 for a while... and I'm gathering that's a little old by now... I've got new needs so I'm wondering if RT is capable, with or without customisations of doing the some multi-domain type support, kind of like virtual hosting. For example, I have two domains, each for

Re: [rt-users] upgrade 3.6.1 to 3.6.3

2007-01-19 Thread Bob Goldstein
See: http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?CleanlyCustomizeRT bobg Well, this will overwrite all my custom changes made to RT (not those made in the database, i know - but all *.pm for ex.). So what files does the make upgrade modify/replace? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, it's that easy.

Re: [rt-users] Cannot add content to RTFM

2007-01-18 Thread Bob Goldstein
Is this an update or new install? I had a similar problem with an upgrade. At least for me, a critical step was left out of the INSTALL instructions, but posted in a note here later: Login the RT web interface- Config-RTFM-Custom Fields-CUSTOM FIELD NAME-Apply- Select the classes

Re: [rt-users] Cannot add content to RTFM

2007-01-18 Thread Bob Goldstein
I don't get any custom fields listed :( In that case, I think you have to define some. An RTFM article consists of one or more custom fields. There isn't any default 'body' of the article. bobg I believe this is a new install... On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:19:17 -0600 Bob

Re: [rt-users] 10 highest priority

2007-01-18 Thread Bob Goldstein
Click Edit in the top blue bar at the right (NOT in the 10 highest priority, but in the far right of the very top blue bar.) Scroll to bottom. See where it says Rows per box ? Set it there. bobg This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===1789345918== Content-Type:

Re: [rt-users] Problems upgrading RTFM to 2.2.0RC4

2006-12-20 Thread Bob Goldstein
? --- Original message --- From: Bill Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/19, 22:49 Thanks Bob , Yes I did, ... but it has no effect because there are now no custom fields listed under Config-RTFM-Custom Fields- ... the drop-down list is empty. Bill Davis Bob Goldstein wrote: I'm stuck

Re: [rt-users] Problems upgrading RTFM to 2.2.0RC4

2006-12-19 Thread Bob Goldstein
I'm stuck, can't seem to go forward to 2.2.RC4, can't seem to go back to where I was, even though I suspect my articles are still in the database somewhere ... Still hoping somebody (with more knowledge of RTFM RT than me) can help ... Did you try this? Login the RT web interface-

Re: [rt-users] Problems upgrading RTFM to 2.2.0RC4

2006-12-18 Thread Bob Goldstein
I'm using RT 3.6.1 with an unknown version of RTFM installed (though I think it is probably RTFM 2.1.40 based on the time frame installed) and am trying to migrate to RTFM 2.2.0RC4. Downloaded the file, read the README file, didn't seem to fit the upgrade instructions (not upgrading from a 2.0.x

Re: [rt-users] Multiple Email Addresses

2006-11-29 Thread Bob Goldstein
Do you all have any creative solutions for dealing with multiple email addresses from the same person so you don't end up with two user accounts per person? I see situations where someone has their email client misconfigured so they send mail out as [EMAIL PROTECTED] when most of the time they

Re: [rt-users] Multiple Email Addresses

2006-11-29 Thread Bob Goldstein
($CanonicalizeEmailAddressReplace , 'uic.edu'); bobg Bob Goldstein wrote: Do you all have any creative solutions for dealing with multiple email addresses from the same person so you don't end up with two user accounts per person? I see situations where someone has their email client

Re: [rt-users] how to mix Internal method just for admin user and ldap method for all other users

2006-10-28 Thread Bob Goldstein
Hi, I am a problem :( I succeed to configure RT to auth users by the classical method. And in another configuration, with the documentation on-line, I succeed to configure RT to auth users with my ldap (using User_Local.pm, and changing RT_SiteConfig.pm and RT_Config) But I would like to

[rt-users] RTFM/RT version question

2006-10-24 Thread Bob Goldstein
I'm trying to upgrade from RT 3.4.2/RTFM 2.0.2 to RT 3.6.1. Seems I need to upgrade RTFM as well, so I tried 2.2.0RC4, since the dates seems to be similar. Kinda works, but not really. (I'm using the 3.4-retro css if that matters.) I never see the content of the articles, unless I view the

Re: [rt-users] 2 RT instances pointing to a single database instance

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Goldstein
Hi, Lots of great stuff on this list and the wiki about multiple instances pointing to different database instances (rt_math, rt_english). However, I interested to know if anyone has set up multiple instances pointing to the same db instance? I have. I might have a production 3.4.2

Re: [rt-users] rt as secondary website

2006-06-13 Thread Bob Goldstein
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 04:00:10PM -0500, Duncan Shannon wrote: sounds like an apache thing, not an RT thing. I'd start with apache and virtual host configurations. So is it not possible to run RT from http://www.example.com/rt/? What do you mean? You configure apache to connect

Re: [rt-users] Accidently deleted global template Status Change

2006-04-12 Thread Bob Goldstein
I accidently deleted the Status Change template under 'Configuration' - 'Global' - 'Templates' - 'Status Change' Can someone share the contents of what should be in the 'Content' section of that template as default? Thanks in advance. Just this. bobg Subject: Status Changed to: