Re: [rt-users] View dashboard of another user who's searches depend on __CurrentUser__

2016-01-27 Thread Woody - Wild Thing Safaris

Hi,

Another option would be  "LastUpdatedByGroup" in a similar fashion to 
OwnerGroup - though it looks like OwnerGroup is for Roles, and 
LastUpdatedBy isn't a Role i don't think.


w.

On 25/01/16 20:29, Woody - Wild Thing Safaris wrote:

HI Sally,

Thanks for your input.

My overall goal is to make it easy for another team member to take 
over another's work while they are away. Since each person is using 
the same dashboard all based on __CurrentUser__, only someone logged 
in as user X can see user X's tickets.


Your idea of using OwnerGroup has given me an idea of a possible 
solution  - I create an identical dashboard but based on OwnerGroup 
and not __CurrentUser__ where OwnerGroup = "holiday" and if someone is 
away, I add them to the group holiday, in which case their tickets 
will be visible in that dashboard.


Where it's going to fail though is with the LastUpdated != 
"__CurrentUser__"
I can't replace that __CurrentUser__ with OwnerGroup. It would need to 
be '__privileged__ ' or LastUpdated = '__Requestor__' or something, or 
i list all the users of the queue in a long LastUpdated != "fred" AND 
Lastupdated !="jane" etc.


thanks for the inspiration and if you have any ideas about the 
LastUpdated - that would be great!


w.

On 21/01/16 16:43, Sally Ainsley wrote:

Hi Woody

Not sure what your overall goal is however I have put our staff into 
GROUPS based on the teams they are in.


We then have searches that are for _CurrentUser_ as well as other 
searches that are based on OWNERGROUP = x.


We then have saved searches visible to each GROUP so that they can 
see tickets assigned to their team - this means that if a member of 
staff if off others in that team can pick up the work.  Works well 
when team managers are away also.


Not sure if this helps

Sally

Sally Ainsley

-Original Message-
From: rt-users [mailto:rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] On 
Behalf Of Woody - Wild Thing Safaris

Sent: 21 January 2016 12:48
To:rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: [rt-users] View dashboard of another user who's searches 
depend on __CurrentUser__


Hi all,

I have a dashboard, in which there are searches that depend on 
__CurrentUser__, so each user that accesses the dashboard can only 
see tickets owned by them.


If someone is away, i would like someone else to be able to see the 
dashboard of the absent person. I don't want to give them the absent 
user's login, nor do i want to create searches for each user that are 
hardwired to their username.


Something likewww.myrt.com/dashboards/12345/Dashname/Username would 
do the job whereby __CurrentUser__ is replaced by "Username" and not 
the person who's actually logged in.


I can see in lib/RT/Tickets.pm in sub _parser the line

  # replace __CurrentUser__ with id
  $value = $self->CurrentUser->id if $value eq 
'__CurrentUser__';


and in lib/RT/Search/Simple.pm

sub HandleOwner {
  if (!$_[2] and $_[1] eq "me") {
  return owner => "Owner.id = '__CurrentUser__'";
  }
  elsif (!$_[2] and $_[1] =~ /\w+@\w+/) {
  return owner => "Owner.EmailAddress = '$_[1]'";
  } else {
  return owner => "Owner = '$_[1]'";
  }
}

So i think that a hack is needed somewhere there, and when the url is 
parsed the extra username field assigned to a variable that can be 
used in those subs. I can't find however where sub HandleOwner is 
called from since that's the only time it appears in the code!


Does this sound like a sensible way of going about it, or can anyone 
think of a better solution, or know of an existing one?


thanks in advance

Woody.





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UK: 2B Habbo St, Greenwich, London
Dar es Salaam: 5 Ethan St, Mbezi beach
Arusha: 3 Ebeneezer Rd, Njiro
PO BOX 34514 DSM
Office: +255 (0) 222 617 166
Office Mobile: +255 (0) 773 503 502
Direct: +255 742 373 327
Skype: woody1tz
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Re: [rt-users] View dashboard of another user who's searches depend on __CurrentUser__

2016-01-25 Thread Woody - Wild Thing Safaris

HI Sally,

Thanks for your input.

My overall goal is to make it easy for another team member to take over 
another's work while they are away. Since each person is using the same 
dashboard all based on __CurrentUser__, only someone logged in as user X 
can see user X's tickets.


Your idea of using OwnerGroup has given me an idea of a possible 
solution  - I create an identical dashboard but based on OwnerGroup and 
not __CurrentUser__ where OwnerGroup = "holiday" and if someone is away, 
I add them to the group holiday, in which case their tickets will be 
visible in that dashboard.


Where it's going to fail though is with the LastUpdated != "__CurrentUser__"
I can't replace that __CurrentUser__ with OwnerGroup. It would need to 
be '__privileged__ ' or LastUpdated = '__Requestor__' or something, or i 
list all the users of the queue in a long LastUpdated != "fred" AND 
Lastupdated !="jane" etc.


thanks for the inspiration and if you have any ideas about the 
LastUpdated - that would be great!


w.

On 21/01/16 16:43, Sally Ainsley wrote:

Hi Woody

Not sure what your overall goal is however I have put our staff into GROUPS 
based on the teams they are in.

We then have searches that are for _CurrentUser_ as well as other searches that 
are based on OWNERGROUP = x.

We then have saved searches visible to each GROUP so that they can see tickets 
assigned to their team - this means that if a member of staff if off others in 
that team can pick up the work.  Works well when team managers are away also.

Not sure if this helps

Sally

Sally Ainsley

-Original Message-
From: rt-users [mailto:rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of 
Woody - Wild Thing Safaris
Sent: 21 January 2016 12:48
To:rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: [rt-users] View dashboard of another user who's searches depend on 
__CurrentUser__

Hi all,

I have a dashboard, in which there are searches that depend on __CurrentUser__, 
so each user that accesses the dashboard can only see tickets owned by them.

If someone is away, i would like someone else to be able to see the dashboard 
of the absent person. I don't want to give them the absent user's login, nor do 
i want to create searches for each user that are hardwired to their username.

Something likewww.myrt.com/dashboards/12345/Dashname/Username  would do the job whereby 
__CurrentUser__ is replaced by "Username" and not the person who's actually 
logged in.

I can see in lib/RT/Tickets.pm in sub _parser the line

  # replace __CurrentUser__ with id
  $value = $self->CurrentUser->id if $value eq '__CurrentUser__';

and in lib/RT/Search/Simple.pm

sub HandleOwner {
  if (!$_[2] and $_[1] eq "me") {
  return owner => "Owner.id = '__CurrentUser__'";
  }
  elsif (!$_[2] and $_[1] =~ /\w+@\w+/) {
  return owner => "Owner.EmailAddress = '$_[1]'";
  } else {
  return owner => "Owner = '$_[1]'";
  }
}

So i think that a hack is needed somewhere there, and when the url is parsed 
the extra username field assigned to a variable that can be used in those subs. 
I can't find however where sub HandleOwner is called from since that's the only 
time it appears in the code!

Does this sound like a sensible way of going about it, or can anyone think of a 
better solution, or know of an existing one?

thanks in advance

Woody.



--

---

Richard Wood (Woody)
Managing Director
Wild Thing Safaris Ltd.

UK: 2B Habbo St, Greenwich, London
Dar es Salaam: 5 Ethan St, Mbezi beach
Arusha: 3 Ebeneezer Rd, Njiro
PO BOX 34514 DSM
Office: +255 (0) 222 617 166
Office Mobile: +255 (0) 773 503 502
Direct: +255 742 373 327
Skype: woody1tz
http://wildthingsafaris.com



Re: [rt-users] View dashboard of another user who's searches depend on __CurrentUser__

2016-01-21 Thread Sally Ainsley
Hi Woody

Not sure what your overall goal is however I have put our staff into GROUPS 
based on the teams they are in.  

We then have searches that are for _CurrentUser_ as well as other searches that 
are based on OWNERGROUP = x.  

We then have saved searches visible to each GROUP so that they can see tickets 
assigned to their team - this means that if a member of staff if off others in 
that team can pick up the work.  Works well when team managers are away also.

Not sure if this helps 

Sally

Sally Ainsley 

-Original Message-
From: rt-users [mailto:rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of 
Woody - Wild Thing Safaris
Sent: 21 January 2016 12:48
To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: [rt-users] View dashboard of another user who's searches depend on 
__CurrentUser__

Hi all,

I have a dashboard, in which there are searches that depend on __CurrentUser__, 
so each user that accesses the dashboard can only see tickets owned by them.

If someone is away, i would like someone else to be able to see the dashboard 
of the absent person. I don't want to give them the absent user's login, nor do 
i want to create searches for each user that are hardwired to their username.

Something like www.myrt.com/dashboards/12345/Dashname/Username would do the job 
whereby __CurrentUser__ is replaced by "Username" and not the person who's 
actually logged in.

I can see in lib/RT/Tickets.pm in sub _parser the line

 # replace __CurrentUser__ with id
 $value = $self->CurrentUser->id if $value eq '__CurrentUser__';

and in lib/RT/Search/Simple.pm

sub HandleOwner {
 if (!$_[2] and $_[1] eq "me") {
 return owner => "Owner.id = '__CurrentUser__'";
 }
 elsif (!$_[2] and $_[1] =~ /\w+@\w+/) {
 return owner => "Owner.EmailAddress = '$_[1]'";
 } else {
 return owner => "Owner = '$_[1]'";
 }
}

So i think that a hack is needed somewhere there, and when the url is parsed 
the extra username field assigned to a variable that can be used in those subs. 
I can't find however where sub HandleOwner is called from since that's the only 
time it appears in the code!

Does this sound like a sensible way of going about it, or can anyone think of a 
better solution, or know of an existing one?

thanks in advance

Woody.

-- 

---

Richard Wood (Woody)
Managing Director
Wild Thing Safaris Ltd.

UK: 2B Habbo St, Greenwich, London
Dar es Salaam: 5 Ethan St, Mbezi beach
Arusha: 3 Ebeneezer Rd, Njiro
PO BOX 34514 DSM
Office: +255 (0) 222 617 166
Office Mobile: +255 (0) 773 503 502
Direct: +255 742 373 327
Skype: woody1tz
http://wildthingsafaris.com




[rt-users] View dashboard of another user who's searches depend on __CurrentUser__

2016-01-21 Thread Woody - Wild Thing Safaris

Hi all,

I have a dashboard, in which there are searches that depend on 
__CurrentUser__, so each user that accesses the dashboard can only see 
tickets owned by them.


If someone is away, i would like someone else to be able to see the 
dashboard of the absent person. I don't want to give them the absent 
user's login, nor do i want to create searches for each user that are 
hardwired to their username.


Something like www.myrt.com/dashboards/12345/Dashname/Username would do 
the job whereby __CurrentUser__ is replaced by "Username" and not the 
person who's actually logged in.


I can see in lib/RT/Tickets.pm in sub _parser the line

# replace __CurrentUser__ with id
$value = $self->CurrentUser->id if $value eq '__CurrentUser__';

and in lib/RT/Search/Simple.pm

sub HandleOwner {
if (!$_[2] and $_[1] eq "me") {
return owner => "Owner.id = '__CurrentUser__'";
}
elsif (!$_[2] and $_[1] =~ /\w+@\w+/) {
return owner => "Owner.EmailAddress = '$_[1]'";
} else {
return owner => "Owner = '$_[1]'";
}
}

So i think that a hack is needed somewhere there, and when the url is 
parsed the extra username field assigned to a variable that can be used 
in those subs. I can't find however where sub HandleOwner is called from 
since that's the only time it appears in the code!


Does this sound like a sensible way of going about it, or can anyone 
think of a better solution, or know of an existing one?


thanks in advance

Woody.

--

---

Richard Wood (Woody)
Managing Director
Wild Thing Safaris Ltd.

UK: 2B Habbo St, Greenwich, London
Dar es Salaam: 5 Ethan St, Mbezi beach
Arusha: 3 Ebeneezer Rd, Njiro
PO BOX 34514 DSM
Office: +255 (0) 222 617 166
Office Mobile: +255 (0) 773 503 502
Direct: +255 742 373 327
Skype: woody1tz
http://wildthingsafaris.com