Re: [rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-26 Thread Jeff Voskamp
On 25/10/16 12:18 PM, Reza wrote: Greetings Jeff: Thank you for your reply. The use case for random IDs is quite simple. Ascending / serial number of IDs compromises confidentiality. End users would be able to guess how busy I could be with the amount of tickets answered. Its something I

Re: [rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-25 Thread Alex Hall
I'm just taking a shot in the dark, not knowing the code base well, but what about this. You keep the actual number, but add things before and after it. For instance: 1207b6988c77 where the ID is 988. Your filter is a letter followed by a number, then your ID, then a letter. You can add random numb

Re: [rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Pilant
Reza writes: >The use case for random IDs is quite simple. Ascending / serial number >of IDs compromises confidentiality. End users would be able to guess >how busy I could be with the amount of tickets answered. Its something >I don't want to disclose. Almost ALL ticketing systems I have

Re: [rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-25 Thread Reza
Greetings Jeff: Thank you for your reply. The use case for random IDs is quite simple. Ascending / serial number of IDs compromises confidentiality. End users would be able to guess how busy I could be with the amount of tickets answered. Its something I don't want to disclose. Almost A

Re: [rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Pilant
Reza writes: >The last 24-48 hrs has been an amazing learning experience. I feel >as-if I can do Kung Fu now :) > > From my recent agenda of: > > 1. Create Random Ticket numbers. > 2. Suppress "RT System Itself - Outgoing email recorded" > 3. Customization of Auto ticket reply. > 4. Assigning tic

Re: [rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-24 Thread Reza
Many thanks to my first 3 teachers, Kenneth Crocker, Alex Hall and Chris McClement, for guiding me to the right direction. Ken, many thanks for your generosity for passing me a copy of your book "Request Tracker for Beginners - A Topical Guide" ( also available on Amazon if those of you newbie

Re: [rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-24 Thread Reza
Chris, Alex, Gentlemen: Thank you for your generosity. Let me learn a little bit more and it will give me the confidence to ask stupid questions. :) Anyone in here would like to engage in a conference call type group study / chat, please let me know. I have a VoIP server to which all of us

Re: [rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-24 Thread Alex Hall
Customizing email notifications as in #3 is done through the templates. As root, or a super user, go to Admin > Templates > Select. There you'll find a table with all the templates the system uses. Admin > Scripts is where you can see which templates go to which events. The wiki ( rt-wiki.bestpract

Re: [rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-24 Thread Chris McClement
Hi Reza Welcome to RT. We're a fairly new user of the product so have recent experience of your learning curve! We have a bit of a workaround in place for "2. Suppress "RT System Itself...)" lines in the History. We simply hide the entries with custom css. In Admin > Tools > Theme > Custom CSS (A

[rt-users] Greetings from a New RT user in Toronto.

2016-10-24 Thread Reza
Greetings Folks: I successfully installed RT on a virtual machine and it has been a non-stop learning marathon for 12+ hrs non stop. If you are as new as me in RT, please reply to my message, and perhaps we can have a conference call (at my expense) to do some sort of study group session, s