Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-02 Thread Roy El-Hames
Jesse; Why do you need RT to own the customer database , I think its not such a good idea .. your support/ticketing system should be different from your provisioning system which is different from your billing etc , the ticketing system is not the place to hold your customer contacts

RE: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-02 Thread Kelly F. Hickel
Thank you, Kelly. Everyone else's reactions to customer file were beginning to make me think *I* was nutsabago. Nope. It's a perfectly reasonable feature request. We've specced it out for customers several times. To do it reasonably as part of RT requires that RT own your customer

Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-02 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0600, Kelly F. Hickel wrote: Thank you, Kelly. Everyone else's reactions to customer file were beginning to make me think *I* was nutsabago. Nope. It's a perfectly reasonable feature request. We've specced it for customers several times. To do it

Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Daley
I am not quite sure what you mean by the first one. The what happened today is quite nice in the newer releases - you can take any search and save it on your home page - so as long as you can write a search (and pick which columns you want to display) you can get exactly what you

RE: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-01 Thread Kelly F. Hickel
, February 01, 2007 12:26 PM To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion? I am not quite sure what you mean by the first one. The what happened today is quite nice in the newer releases - you can take any search and save it on your home page

Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-01 Thread Todd Chapman
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:56:03PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: It's been a while since I've looked at RT. The last time I tried to get it some traction in the organization I work for, it foundered on 3 points: * It didn't understand customers. The company I work for is in

Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-01 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:18:06PM -0600, Kelly F. Hickel wrote: The first one is a common requirement. We have a database with all of our customer details in it (ok, well, we have a db that nearly has all the stuff in it and some of it is even correct). We need to link a ticket to a

Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-01 Thread Jesse Vincent
Thank you, Kelly. Everyone else's reactions to customer file were beginning to make me think *I* was nutsabago. Nope. It's a perfectly reasonable feature request. We've specced it out for customers several times. To do it reasonably as part of RT requires that RT own your customer

Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-01 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:46:15PM -0500, Jesse Vincent wrote: Thank you, Kelly. Everyone else's reactions to customer file were beginning to make me think *I* was nutsabago. Nope. It's a perfectly reasonable feature request. We've specced it out for customers several times. To do it

Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-01 Thread Jesse Vincent
I can't speak to *everyone* that's wanted it, but I don't know that that was ever stated that explicitly before -- though I sort of inferred it. We'd probably model it as RT groups, so that you could usefully model who's part of which customer. The big hard bits are probably setting

Re: [rt-users] RT State of the Onion?

2007-02-01 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:13:10PM -0500, Jesse Vincent wrote: I can't speak to *everyone* that's wanted it, but I don't know that that was ever stated that explicitly before -- though I sort of inferred it. We'd probably model it as RT groups, so that you could usefully model who's