[rt-users] Multiple Custom Fields menu items to split up custom fields

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Hall
Is there a way to make multiple menu items for custom fields, and then split my custom fields into those separate menu items? For example: A queue I'm working on will have around 30 custom fields. They are topical, so they'd like to break it up into groups of about 4 or 5 with a title on each. So

Re: [rt-users] Multiple Custom Fields menu items to split up custom fields

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Hall
, Chris Hall wrote: Is there a way to make multiple menu items for custom fields, and then split my custom fields into those separate menu items? For example: A queue I'm working on will have around 30 custom fields. They are topical, so they'd like to break it up into groups of about 4

[rt-users] Question about generating a report

2014-07-08 Thread Chris Hall
Hello, My rt users have hit me with a rather.. unusual request. I'm not exactly sure how to get RT to do what they're asking. Basically they want to generate a monthly report of times a comment was made on tickets in a queue. This alone I'm almost able to achieve through a mysql query. But

Re: [rt-users] RT 4.2 and ownership of tickets after comments

2013-11-06 Thread Chris Hall
or something I can turn on that will enable like a debug mode so I can see what's happening on a step by step basis when something happens like a comment? On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Alex Vandiver ale...@bestpractical.comwrote: On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 15:36 -0500, Chris Hall wrote: Still haven't

Re: [rt-users] RT 4.2 and ownership of tickets after comments

2013-11-06 Thread Chris Hall
09:56:39 rt RT: [30613] More than 50 possible Owners found for Queue 41; switching to autocompleter On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Asif Iqbal vad...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: I'm officially stumped. This apparently is an issue

Re: [rt-users] RT 4.2 and ownership of tickets after comments

2013-11-06 Thread Chris Hall
that this fix is needed if it's ever overwritten by an upgrade. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Asif Iqbal vad...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: Nov 6 09:56:39 rt RT: [30613] rt-4.2.0-30613-1383749799-436.57417-...@xxx.com #57417/999087 - Scrip 2

[rt-users] Question about 4.2 and setting the owner

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Hall
Hello all, I have somewhat of an aesthetics question about RT 4.2. Back in 4.0, when my helpdesk people went to create a ticket, etc, they would sometimes need to change the owner in the basics field. In 4.0 it was a dropdown. In 4.2, it's now a typed auto-completing field. Is there a way to

[rt-users] RT 4.2 and ownership of tickets after comments

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Hall
I'm noticing a strange problem after my upgrade from 4.0.0 to 4.2. Before my upgrade I'd made a global script that would have the user attempt to take ownership of a ticket after commenting on it. This is still working after the upgrade. However, now it is immediately given back to the previous

Re: [rt-users] Question about 4.2 and setting the owner

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Hall
That's the answer Alex. I found it a few minutes after I'd emailed the mailing list. There's ~60 users. Thanks for the reply. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Alex Vandiver ale...@bestpractical.comwrote: On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 11:35 -0500, Parish, Brent wrote: Add this line into

Re: [rt-users] RT 4.2 and ownership of tickets after comments

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Hall
: $msg ); return undef; } return 1; On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Alex Vandiver ale...@bestpractical.comwrote: On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 11:40 -0500, Chris Hall wrote: I'm noticing a strange problem after my upgrade from 4.0.0 to 4.2. Before my upgrade I'd made a global script

Re: [rt-users] RT 4.2 and ownership of tickets after comments

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Hall
) { $RT::Logger-error( Impossible to assign the ticket to $Actor: $msg ); return undef; } return 1; On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: This is my scrip that sets the owner to themselves after a comment. Like I said though it's working fine. However

Re: [rt-users] RT 4.2 and ownership of tickets after comments

2013-11-05 Thread Chris Hall
to the original owner. I can't seem to figure out why. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: My mistake, the custom action commit code is this: # get actor ID my $Actor = $self-TransactionObj-Creator; # ok, try to change owner $RT::Logger-info(Auto assign ticket

[rt-users] Question about SMTP in an upgrade from 4.0 to 4.2

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Hall
In a few days we'll be upgrading from RT 4.0.0 to 4.2. I was reviewing the upgrade document and I came across something distressing... The Csmtp option for LRT_Config/$MailCommand, along with the associated C$SMTPServer, C$SMTPFrom, and C$SMTPDebug options, has been removed because it did not

[rt-users] Question about restricting queues

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Hall
I've got a bit of a weird problem, and wondered if anybody has a solution for it. We have several queues, and a few are grouped up by name. For example: Queue A tier 1 Queue A tier 2 Queue A tier 3 Queue B tier 1 Queue B tier 2 Queue B tier 3 The managers at the helpdesk are having a problem

[rt-users] Adding comments to the format field of a search

2012-12-26 Thread Chris Hall
Is there a way to add either all or the last comment to the format section of a search? I have a customer who would like to pull the comments or last comments, etc in a search and have it exported along w/ the other data to a spreadsheet. To do that though as I am to understand, I'd need to have

[rt-users] Auto expiring tickets, is it possible?

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Hall
Hello, We have a new customer that requested if they call in for their ticket to be left open until close of business. I know we could just have our techs who use RT close the ticket at the end of the day, but with all the other stuff they are dealing with, they asked if there was a more

[rt-users] Auto-setting the owner of child tickets

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Hall
Hello all, Awhile back I set up a custom global scrip to auto-set the owner of a ticket to the user like this: On Create, action user defined, Global template: Blank, Stage TransactionCreate Custom action preparation code: return 1; Custom action cleanup code: # get actor ID my $Actor =

[rt-users] Ownership on comment

2011-07-13 Thread Chris Hall
Hey... is it possible to: 1. automatically set the owner of a ticket to the creator of the ticket? 2. automatically change the owner of a ticket to whomever comments on the ticket? 2011 Training: http://bestpractical.com/services/training.html

Re: [rt-users] Ownership on comment

2011-07-13 Thread Chris Hall
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Mauricio Tavares raubvo...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: Hey... is it possible to: 1. automatically set the owner of a ticket to the creator of the ticket? 2. automatically change the owner of a ticket

[rt-users] Adding custom fields to email notifications

2011-06-28 Thread Chris Hall
Hello all, My users are asking about possibly adding information from custom fields into the email notifications they receive on things like queue changes, comments, etc.. I'm not sure how I'd go about something like that without changing ALL the queue emails.. there's probably a simple solution

Re: [rt-users] RT4 slowness

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Hall
Just for the record I'm having the same issues as L.B. I attempted loading jsmin, and for a time it appeared that this was going to be a bigtime home run. In fact, it did fix the issues I was having with speed! However, jsmin seemed to also break several aspects of the RT interface.

Re: [rt-users] RT4 slowness

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Hall
: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:56:46PM -0400, Chris Hall wrote: Just for the record I'm having the same issues as L.B. I attempted loading jsmin, and for a time it appeared that this was going to be a bigtime home run. In fact, it did fix the issues I was having with speed! However, jsmin

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

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hall
Hello all, I was wondering if I could get a hand with a change I wanted to make on our end. In fact, I was able to change this in 3.8.8 days, but the changes don't work on 4.0.0. I want to add to the Ticket and Transaction section a Queue option, so that my user base can change the queue when

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

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hall
, I'm sure I read this incorrectly (that happens a lot with me ;-). Could you explain this a little differently, perhaps? Kenn LBNL On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I was wondering if I could get a hand with a change I wanted to make on our

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

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hall
permisisons in both queues, this takes a few trips around the various RT screens. It would be nice to have all of this on one screen. On Thu, May 26, 2011 7:42 am, Chris Hall wrote: Sure Kenn, I'll elaborate.. and again, I had this working in 3.8.8.. it just seems more... difficult

Re: [rt-users] mason_data dir contents owned by root

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hall
chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/rt4/var/mason_data/* I know it's more of a patch than a fix, but.. this is how I'm handling this problem on my end (yea, I ran into it too), and unless I manually remove the mason_data info, it seems to solve my problems. That's just how I've solved it.. I'm sure

Re: [rt-users] Please help - rt4 slow after upgrade

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Hall
appreciate it. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: Well, resolved the below a bit by adding to RT_SiteConfig.pm: Set($WebSessionClass, Apache::Session::File); However, CPU usage still peaks out on apache2 processes, although it appears to be not AS frequent. Anybody

Re: [rt-users] Please help - rt4 slow after upgrade

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Hall
-0400, Chris Hall wrote: Seems after watching a few days this is still an issue. It seems completely random.. some pages just... take awhile to load for some reason. 15 - 20 seconds, and then you can blast through a few pages instantly it seems... completely random. I've checked the logs

Re: [rt-users] Please help - rt4 slow after upgrade

2011-05-19 Thread Chris Hall
seems to occur most frequently when updating tickets. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: I actually saw something about that in a message to the mailing list, and already turned it off as well, as a precaution. After searching around some and trying out some

[rt-users] rt apache running slow

2011-05-18 Thread Chris Hall
Hello all, I'm not sure if was the case before the upgrade to 4.0.0 from 3.8.8, but I've noticed intermittent slowdown.. particularly on the front page. I have a suspect as to why this is the case, and I wanted to know if this could be backed up. The ppl who use rt here requested that resolved

Re: [rt-users] rt apache running slow

2011-05-18 Thread Chris Hall
ok... update... it only seems to do this when I'm going through a proxy server... odd. I can hit it without any trouble inside our network, and from the internet, but when it goes through my squid proxy, it wants to choke out. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote

[rt-users] Please help - rt4 slow after upgrade

2011-05-18 Thread Chris Hall
Not sure where to start here, but trying to diagnose why after an upgrade from 3.8.8 to 4.0.0 things have slowed down tremendously. Doing even pedestrian tasks such as loading the home screen or opening the ticket search will about 30% of the time decide it wants to max out the cpu with the

Re: [rt-users] Please help - rt4 slow after upgrade

2011-05-18 Thread Chris Hall
a bit, but I'm still getting some slowdowns, just not as much as before. --- Jonah Hirsch On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure where to start here, but trying to diagnose why after an upgrade from 3.8.8 to 4.0.0 things have slowed

[rt-users] rflush error after 4.0.0 upgrade

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Hall
Hello, I just went through the rt4 upgrade this morning, from 3.8.8, and things went relatively smooth. However, I'm occasionally seeing the rflush error below popping up in my apache2.error log. I haven't gotten any calls on it, so I'm not sure if this is actually kicking ppl off or what the

[rt-users] Question about configuration changes in RT_SiteConfig.pm in 4.0.0

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Hall
Hello, I had the following lines in my RT_SiteConfig.pm on 3.8.8: Set (@ActiveStatus, qw(new open stalled resolved)); Set (@InactiveStatus, qw(voicemail1 voicemail2 rejected deleted)); ..to move resolved to an active status, and also to make a couple new statuses.. voicemail1 and voicemail2,

[rt-users] Handling a ticket that contains MANY comments....

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Hall
Hello all, Question: How should I best handle a ticket with multiple comments? By multiple, I mean 400+. Here's the background. Our helpdesk had to deal w/ a widespread outage. Tons upon tons of ppl were calling in for the entire day. They decided they needed to log all these calls, so they

Re: [rt-users] Handling a ticket that contains MANY comments....

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Hall
? Though that will increase the number of tickets in the system. Steve Anderson *From:* rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com [mailto: rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Hall *Sent:* 22 April 2011 15:33 *To:* rt-users *Subject:* [rt-users] Handling a ticket

Re: [rt-users] search by CommentedOnBy?

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Hall
and questions about this. On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Sibley t...@bestpractical.comwrote: On 21 Feb 2011 11:40, Chris Hall wrote: ..so I've been racking my brain on this one for awhile. Any guidance is appreciated. The aforementioned query works great, I just need to integrate

Re: [rt-users] search by CommentedOnBy?

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Hall
...@bestpractical.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:10:00PM -0500, Chris Hall wrote: Sorry for the ignorance here, but I'm trying to muddle my way through this. I've installed DBIx::SearchBuilder via cpan and I've made a copy of the Results.html found in /opt/rt3/share/html/Search

Re: [rt-users] search by CommentedOnBy?

2011-02-21 Thread Chris Hall
: the time is not your localtime, it is GMT0 second: if someone rather than your support team is allowed to comment on tickets, you would have them in the report Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:25:10 -0500 From: Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com Subject: Re: [rt-users

[rt-users] Only emailing certain people question

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Hall
This seems like a simple thing, but I can't figure it out. So there's one main queue, and there's only about... 10 - 15 users total on this RT system I'm admin for. They all have access to the main queue. However, the boss guy is adding in users/email addresses to the tickets individually in

Re: [rt-users] search by CommentedOnBy?

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Hall
-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Falcone Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:24 AM To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com Subject: Re: [rt-users] search by CommentedOnBy? On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:16:42PM -0500, Chris Hall wrote: That's close I think

[rt-users] Editing comments

2011-01-21 Thread Chris Hall
Is there a way to edit comments? Problem arose when a helpdesk guy here apparently copy and pasted into the comment block of a ticket, and it grabbed a bunch of bonus code. Now the comments for that ticket read: Message body not shown because it is too large. He knows not to do that now, but

[rt-users] search by CommentedOnBy?

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Hall
Is there a way to do a search of tickets to see which tickets a given person has commented on?

Re: [rt-users] search by CommentedOnBy?

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Hall
freephoneline.ca 605 Boxwood Drive Cambridge ON, N3E1A5 *From:* rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com [mailto: rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Hall *Sent:* Monday, January 03, 2011 4:09 PM *To:* rt-users *Subject:* [rt-users] search by CommentedOnBy

[rt-users] Combobox as a search.. possible?

2011-01-03 Thread Chris Hall
I saw in the archives where this was asked once before, but never answered, so here goes... Can I set up a custom field combobox to display as a combobox in the ticket search area? Currently, it only displays the custom field as a text entry when searching, but I'd rather have the combobox

[rt-users] Adding it as a 'Requestor' would create a mail loop.... ?

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Hall
I'm a bit confused here.. tried reading up on this but.. maybe I just need a layman's explanation of what I need to be doing here. We were using rt 3.8.7, but recently upgraded to 3.8.8. As per the README, after the 'make upgrade' I ran: /opt/rt3/sbin/rt-setup-database --dba rt_user

Re: [rt-users] Adding it as a 'Requestor' would create a mail loop.... ?

2010-12-01 Thread Chris Hall
needed to match trouble-tic...@imctv.com and rt-comm...@imctv.com, did I form the regexp wrong, or am I wrong on this thinking? On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Kevin Falcone falc...@bestpractical.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:17:35AM -0500, Chris Hall wrote: I'm a bit confused

Re: [rt-users] Switching queues from comment link

2010-10-29 Thread Chris Hall
, Chris Hall hir...@gmail.com wrote: It's probably going to be something of a dirty hack but.. I'd like a one-stop shop where people can re-open resolved tickets, comment on them, and place them in appropriate queues. (helpdesk, billing, corp support, etc...) The obvious place for this seems

[rt-users] Switching queues from comment link

2010-10-28 Thread Chris Hall
It's probably going to be something of a dirty hack but.. I'd like a one-stop shop where people can re-open resolved tickets, comment on them, and place them in appropriate queues. (helpdesk, billing, corp support, etc...) The obvious place for this seems to be the Comment link at the top right,

[rt-users] Mandatory rt at a glance items by group

2010-10-15 Thread Chris Hall
Hello all, I think I may have asked this before, but didn't quite get the answer I was looking for. I'm looking for a way to mandate items on the RT at a glance screen for people based on group membership. For example, I'd like to make a custom search that says tickets that haven't been

[rt-users] Quicksearch question

2010-10-12 Thread Chris Hall
I know this is a simple question but, I can't seem to find the right place to allow modification of quicksearch on rt at a glance for users. What permission do I need to open up? Right now they have an Edit link, but when users try to modify it, they get No permission to set preferences error.

Re: [rt-users] Customizing the left side main menu

2010-10-06 Thread Chris Hall
but what file would I need to edit? I'm trying to find where the left side menu is generated. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Kevin Falcone falc...@bestpractical.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:42:22AM -0400, Chris Hall wrote: Ok, in a nutshell.. I'd like to add some extra options

[rt-users] RT at a glance for groups

2010-06-10 Thread Chris Hall
Is it possible? For example, we have our users divided into groups of like... helpdesk.. corporate support.. field techs... I'd like to make a custom search to display the helpdesk tickets via RT at a glance for the members of the helpdesk group, but I see how to do it via individual users, or

Re: [rt-users] Custom Field display descriptions

2010-05-28 Thread Chris Hall
I was wondering this myself.. on 3.8.7 here.. I'd like a way to have a more descriptive explanation on the form, rather than Input must match ^\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}$ (not everybody knows that means a ###-###- phone number) On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Mike Johnson mike.john...@normed.cawrote:

Re: [rt-users] Filtering out unneeded info from ticket

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Hall
Chris Am 13.05.2010 19:28, schrieb Chris Hall: Thanks Raed and Torsten, I took a little bit of both. I ended up editing Ticket/Elements/ShowHistory with: } else { $Transactions = $Ticket-Transactions; if ($r-uri =~ /History\.html/) { } else { $Transactions-Limit(FIELD

[rt-users] Filtering out unneeded info from ticket

2010-05-13 Thread Chris Hall
How can I filter from the history information I don't want to see? For example.. snippet from a recent ticket: Mon May 10 10:26:17 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open' http://rt.imctv.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=43#txn-708 Mon May 10 10:26:17 2010 Allen Stevens -

Re: [rt-users] Filtering out unneeded info from ticket

2010-05-13 Thread Chris Hall
= $Ticket-Transactions; } to } else { $Transactions = $Ticket-Transactions; $Transactions-Limit(FIELD = 'Type', VALUE = 'Correspond'); $Transactions-Limit(FIELD = 'Type', VALUE = 'Comment); $Transactions-Limit(FIELD = 'Type', VALUE = 'Create'); } Regards; Roy Chris Hall wrote

[rt-users] Deleting queues

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Hall
Total n00b question here but, how does one delete a queue? I don't see the option anywhere. I see that I can disable it but, it still shows for admin users. I want to just delete it completely. Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at

[rt-users] Setting up spamassassin

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Hall
How does one go about setting up spamassassin with RT? I've downloaded it via apt-get, just not sure what the next step would be. Trying to stop all the fre.e v1agerra tickets... gr Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at

Re: [rt-users] Question about using an external SMTP server

2010-04-29 Thread Chris Hall
will most likely still require some of the perl modules from the 'make testdeps'. Then again I've never tried to do it before so I'm not really sure what dependencies it has. Chris Hall wrote: well.. none yet. I think I see where I've mis-stepped. the modifications to /etc/aliases needs

[rt-users] Question about using an external SMTP server

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Hall
We're tightly controlling port 25 on our site here, so using the local method for sending email is a no go. I read something about installing mailgate on the smtp server here, but that has some people... nervous My boss seems to think it should be a matter of switching a line or two to set a

Re: [rt-users] Question about using an external SMTP server

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Hall
you to still use the sendmail commands to send. This is assuming you can still receive on port 25 for MX deliveries. Otherwise you may have no choice but to set it up on your real smtp server. Chris Hall wrote: We're tightly controlling port 25 on our site here, so using the local method

[rt-users] Forward to queue question

2010-04-23 Thread Chris Hall
Hello all, I'm very new to RT, and after shifting around permissions on groups and queues for a few hours, I'm ready to ask for some help.. btw, documentation seems very widespread and unfocused, unless I'm looking in the wrong places. Basically, let's say I have 2 groups w/ a queue each...

Re: [rt-users] Forward to queue question

2010-04-23 Thread Chris Hall
a ticket to the Corp. Support queue. Is there something somewhere else I need to set? when root moves a ticket, no permission denied errors are displayed. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Jerrad Pierce jpie...@cambridgeenergyalliance.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:06, Chris Hall hir

[rt-users] ldap overlay auth methods

2006-05-24 Thread Chris Hall
Hello, I'm using the LDAP overlay and having trouble with getting RT to autocreate new users. The user creation is working now, but now LDAP users are able to login using both their LDAP passwords, and the previously used RT passwords. My AuthMethods are: Set($AuthMethods, ['LDAP',