[rt-users] Why are Asset #'s so naked?

2014-05-18 Thread Al Joslin
I chose RT + RT-Assets by virtue of it's claimed capabilities and external API's -- I've got to handle HelpDesk tickets, Developer bug tickets, and nearly 50 thousand assets. I'm focusing on Assets to start because they are pretty crucial to the process. I've installed RT-Assets 1.0.1 on

[rt-users] Need Help: Hotlist [article] dropdown menus malfunctioning when replying to Tickets

2014-06-16 Thread Al Joslin
RT v/4.2.4, RT Assets v/1.0.1 I have a problem where I cannot include an Article into a Ticket reply I have configured for Queue Specific Articles Hotlist support I have the HotList drop down menus setup, but the selections do not work/persist properly. You choose a class, which reloads

[rt-users] help: using RT with a gmail acct

2014-06-17 Thread Al Joslin
Hi All, I've managed to get RT to send emails using a gmail account, but now I'm trying to get it to read emails. If understand this [email/mta/mua/etc] all correctly then I have to have my own mta (as described here: http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/email.html) so

[rt-users] multiple users editing the same ticket - how does RT handle concurrent edits ?

2014-06-27 Thread Al Joslin
I was asked by one of my users, what happens if two people are editing a ticket at the same time ? Our current system, that I'm trying to replace, tells users when another user is editing the same ticket I tried editing one ticket with two users at the same time -- I could see no

Re: [rt-users] multiple users editing the same ticket - how does RT handle concurrent edits ?

2014-06-30 Thread Al Joslin
fields. On 28 June 2014 07:02, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: I was asked by one of my users, what happens if two people are editing a ticket at the same time ? Our current system, that I'm trying to replace, tells users when another user is editing the same ticket I tried

[rt-users] User/Summary.html not showing CF's

2014-07-10 Thread Al Joslin
I've defined some User CF's, I've enabled the CFs given Everyone 'SeeCustomField' permission via global user permissions When a NonPrivileged user logs in - they cannot

Re: [rt-users] User/Summary.html not showing CF's

2014-07-11 Thread Al Joslin
problem? Personally I try to debug rights issues by determining and then inspecting the relevant code. There are probably more efficient ways. On 11/07/2014 6:03 am, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: I've defined some User CF's, I've enabled the CFs given Everyone 'SeeCustomField

[rt-users] a configuration manager/plugin for RT

2014-07-15 Thread Al Joslin
Am I correct in thinking that there is no easy way to transfer configuration changes from one RT installation (test/dev) to another (prod) ? Unless someone has already written a plugin that will programmatically apply sets of configuration changes, (or, silicon gods willing, it could diff

[rt-users] How do I make a custom field with values not equal to names ?

2014-07-24 Thread Al Joslin
I am wishing that RT supported CustomFields in a way other than Name == Value This makes it impossible to have a CustomField showing a bunch of Names whose Values are [for example] integer Object IDs In my case I have to store billing rates for service calls, supporting multiple external

Re: [rt-users] How do I make a custom field with values not equal to names ?

2014-07-24 Thread Al Joslin
are you wanting to achieve? Custom field options that depend on a previously-selected value? Custom field values can safely be deleted when they should no longer be added to new tickets/transactions, because they are copied by value (not by reference) when used. On 25/07/2014 6:18 am, Al

Re: [rt-users] How do I make a custom field with values not equal to names ?

2014-07-24 Thread Al Joslin
$ticket = $self-TicketObj; my $plan = $ticket-FirstCustomFieldValue('Plan'); $ticket-AddCustomFieldValue( Field = 'dollar value', Value = VALUE_FOR_PLAN-{$plan}, ); On 25 July 2014 12:44, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: thanks!! I'm very glad to hear that the it's store

[rt-users] CF for ticket comment?

2014-07-26 Thread Al Joslin
The ticketing system that I am swinging us away from allows one to specify an amount of billed minutes at a selected billing rate in the tech-notes (comments) How might I support that in RT ? thanks Al; -- RT Training - Boston, September 9-10 http://bestpractical.com/training

Re: [rt-users] CF for ticket comment?

2014-07-26 Thread Al Joslin
Never Mind RT::Transaction On Jul 26, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: The ticketing system that I am swinging us away from allows one to specify an amount of billed minutes at a selected billing rate in the tech-notes (comments) How might I support

[rt-users] Read-Only Custom Fields

2014-07-30 Thread Al Joslin
I've seen this question asked before, but can't find an answer I'm using RT 4.2.5 I create a custom field, I assign it to a queue People can't see it - so far so good I grant 'SeeCustomField' on it for Everyone People can't see it - that's bad I grant 'ModifyCustomField' on it for Everyone

Re: [rt-users] Read-Only Custom Fields

2014-07-30 Thread Al Joslin
I can't figure out any way around granting all the ModifyCustomField permissions on a per-field basis And if my users don't want to see some of the CF's at the Ticket level then I'll be granting those on a per-field basis as well. thanks al; On Jul 30, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Al Joslin

[rt-users] Scrip access to Per-Transaction custom field values -- need a workaround !!

2014-07-30 Thread Al Joslin
I have per-transaction custom fields that the users can update when they comment (or reply) I need to roll those up to the Ticket as they are added, so I wrote a scrip But I can't seem to get it to work... It's always one comment behind... Then I found this line in the RT wiki

Re: [rt-users] Scrip access to Per-Transaction custom field values -- need a workaround !!

2014-07-31 Thread Al Joslin
at that point. If it does work for you, the community would probably appreciate you updating that wiki text as well. On 31/07/2014 6:29 am, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: I have per-transaction custom fields that the users can update when they comment (or reply) I need to roll

[rt-users] rt-serializer errors, followed by ft-importer errors

2014-08-01 Thread Al Joslin
I have an RT 4.2.5 w/Assets 1.01 over mysql Ver 14.14 on Ubuntu 14.04 as my first RT I have brought up RT 4.2.6 w/Assets 1.01 over mariadb Ver 15.1 on CentOS 6.5 As maria is a drop-in replacement for mysql I didn't use the --clone option (anyway I don't want any of the 3K practice tickets)

Re: [rt-users] rt-serializer errors, followed by ft-importer errors

2014-08-01 Thread Al Joslin
manually a PITA but do-able al; On Aug 1, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: I have an RT 4.2.5 w/Assets 1.01 over mysql Ver 14.14 on Ubuntu 14.04 as my first RT I have brought up RT 4.2.6 w/Assets 1.01 over mariadb Ver 15.1 on CentOS 6.5 As maria is a drop

Re: [rt-users] rt-serializer errors, followed by ft-importer errors

2014-08-01 Thread Al Joslin
] [warning]: Can't call method URI on an undefined value at /opt/rt4/sbin/../lib/RT/Transaction.pm line 1969. (/opt/rt4/sbin/../lib/RT/Migrate/Importer/File.pm:97) Crap ! On Aug 1, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: Damn -- it's the Assets !! You seem to get a bad export

[rt-users] Need Help Creating Configurations Programatically

2014-08-02 Thread Al Joslin
Since the rt-serializer rt-importer do not handle Assets I would like to be able to programmatically create my Asset configurations Neither the CustomField nor the ObjectCustomField have Create() methods Where should I start with this? -- RT Training - Boston, September 9-10

Re: [rt-users] rt-serializer errors, followed by ft-importer errors

2014-08-03 Thread Al Joslin
Permissions are not migrated either... On Aug 1, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: Damn -- it's the Assets !! You seem to get a bad export if you've Assets enabled in your RT_SiteConfig.pm I commented out the Assets extension in the Site config and ran

[rt-users] help! users (root or otherwise) can't change their passwords, two different RT installs (4.2.4 4.2.6)

2014-08-16 Thread Al Joslin
I've an odd situation here, and I'm sure I've missed something very basic... I've installed RT twice now, once over Ubuntu and again over CentOS, and root can add users but not change his (Enoch's) password None of the users, all granted the ModifySelf option, can change their passwords

Re: [rt-users] help! users (root or otherwise) can't change their passwords, two different RT installs (4.2.4 4.2.6)

2014-08-16 Thread Al Joslin
when logged in as root I can change other users' passwords and the confirmation message says: password changed Still, when trying to change my own password -- it will not change (and the message says Auth Token Changed) confounding... al; On Aug 16, 2014, at 6:33 AM, Al

Re: [rt-users] [solved]: help! users (root or otherwise) can't change their passwords, two different RT installs (4.2.4 4.2.6)

2014-08-17 Thread Al Joslin
priority anyway when an RT form has multiple submit buttons. In such cases when Enter is pressed, RT could probably return a message asking the user to click a specific button for this particular form. On 17/08/2014 12:16 am, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: Hitting return on the User

[rt-users] where do you think is the best place to write debug snippets of code?

2014-08-22 Thread Al Joslin
where do you think is the best place to write debug snippets of code? for instance, I'm writing a callback to add a button that will create a child ticket and copy all of the custom fields into the new ticket but every time I change the code I've got to clear the mason cache, and restart

[rt-users] how do you write to syslog?

2014-08-22 Thread Al Joslin
I'm in Custom Scrip and I can't get anything to show syslog I've this line in my scrip syslog(critical, Scrip: On Create Copy Custom Fields From Parent); and nothing shows in the syslog I dn't get it (so to speak) -- what am I doing wrong ? -- RT Training - Boston, September 9-10

[rt-users] Help!! RT::Authen::ExternalAuth -- can't create Privileged users

2014-09-03 Thread Al Joslin
I installed and configured: RT::Authen::ExternalAuth I've got the login via LDAP working ok -- but it won't create Privileged users I had to turn on: AutoCreateNonExternalUsers -- which seemed odd as I want to create only those users who are SUCCESSFULLY authenticated via LDAP

[rt-users] How do you grant individual User rights ?

2014-09-03 Thread Al Joslin
Every time I (as Enoch Root) try to grant a right to a single [Staff] user (via Global - User Rights - Add A User) -- I get an error Principal ## not found (where ## == that users' id) So how do you grant an individual User rights ? thanks Al; -- RT Training - Boston, September 9-10

[rt-users] how to grant superUser ?

2014-09-24 Thread Al Joslin
How are you supposed to grant SuperUser to a user? I log in as Root and go to Admin - Global - User Rights I type the username into the AddUser box and select Rights For Administrators and check the box for SuperUser I hit Save Changes and I get a message: Principal 24 not found What am I

[rt-users] granting super user fails with principal not found

2014-09-26 Thread Al Joslin
bump Message: 2 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:02:38 -0400 From: Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com Subject: [rt-users] how to grant superUser ? Message-ID: 4a1c2d0e-1e94-4bed-82af-d7f1ef962...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii How

Re: [rt-users] how to grant superUser ?

2014-09-26 Thread Al Joslin
...@bestpractical.com wrote: On 09/24/2014 11:02 AM, Al Joslin wrote: I hit Save Changes and I get a message: Principal 24 not found Run rt-validator -- that implies your internal user and principal tables are missing rows. - Alex -- RT Training November 4 5 Los Angeles http://bestpractical.com

Re: [rt-users] rt-users Digest, Vol 126, Issue 24

2014-10-01 Thread Al Joslin
--force at no time did it complain or make any indication that anything was changed I still get the: Principal not found error al; On Sep 26, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Alex Vandiver ale...@bestpractical.com wrote: On 09/24/2014 11:02 AM, Al Joslin wrote: I hit Save Changes and I get a message

Re: [rt-users] TicketSQL to select all tickets with requestor nobody in particular

2015-03-13 Thread Al Joslin
no, that doesn’t work I was able to get something by selecting requestor email not like ‘@‘ On Mar 13, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Trev tre...@onepost.net wrote: Use 'nobody' vs. 'nobody in particular' as your search criteria. On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com

[rt-users] TicketSQL to select all tickets with requestor nobody in particular

2015-03-13 Thread Al Joslin
What is the TicketSQL to select all tickets with requestor nobody in particular” ? I can’t get that list from the Search GUI either thanks al;

[rt-users] need to run code when user presses a button

2015-03-26 Thread Al Joslin
I would like to have a button on the display page of a ticket that when clicked runs some code (*) which then causes the display page to refresh I have the code (*) written which queries a remote database and updates an rt ticket based on what it finds - this is all perl code, using

Re: [rt-users] need to run code when user presses a button

2015-03-26 Thread Al Joslin
be pretty safe. Thanks for confirming my plan al; On Mar 26, 2015, at 5:49 PM, Landon Stewart lstew...@iweb.com wrote: On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Al Joslin allen.jos...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to have a button on the display page of a ticket that when clicked runs some code (*) which

[rt-users] Need help searching tickets by requestor custom field

2015-05-22 Thread Al Joslin
Hello, I’ve defined a custom field on Users I now need to search for Tickets requested by the Users with certain values within that custom field I’d like to know the way to do this with TicketSQL because I’m going to be writing it into a portlet thanks al;

[rt-users] How Can I Grow A Set Of Users

2015-05-26 Thread Al Joslin
I need to assemble a set of users from a list of user Ids # gives me a list of _all_ the users $users = RT::Users-new($session{'CurrentUser'}); # empties the list $users-CleanSlate; # empty the list #doesn’t work my $user1 =

[rt-users] Help! I enabled Full Text search and now Simple search won't look at Subjects !!

2015-10-07 Thread Al Joslin
I am running 4.2.11 I have install mariadb 10.0 I have enabled native mySQL full text search It works fine - EXCEPT: it seems that I can have Full Text -or- Subject from the Simple Search box, but not both? If I disable the full text from the RT_Site_config then the simple search box

[rt-users] Does enabling Full Text search disable searching Subjects from the Simple Search box?

2015-09-30 Thread Al Joslin
I am running 4.2.11 I have install mariadb 10.0 I have enabled native mySQL full text search It works fine - EXCEPT: it seems that I can have Full Text -or- Subject from the Simple Search box, but not both? If I disable the full text from the RT_Site_config then the simple search box

[rt-users] Help! I can have Full Text -or- Subject from the Simple Search box, but not both?

2015-09-21 Thread Al Joslin
I am running 4.2.11 I have install mariadb 10.0 I have enabled native mySQL full text search It works fine - EXCEPT: it seems that I can have Full Text -or- Subject from the Simple Search box, but not both? If I disable the full text from the RT_Site_config then the simple search box