On May 12, 2009, at 3:39 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote:

>
> On 2009-05-12 09:23, yoheeb wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, is this a physical limitation (i.e, the help
>> desk can't actually access the trac server) or some poorly thought  
>> out
>> "shall not happen" restriction?
>
> Neither nor. It's a well-thought "shall not happen"
> restriction :~)
>
>> The reason I ask, there are some plugins for CustomerSupport type
>> tickets that limit what can be done for creating tickets.  Combined
>> with other plugins like PrivateTickets, and also modifying
>> permissions, you could easily limit "front desk people" to only
>> creating tickets, and only seeing their own tickets, disallowing all
>> coded, wiki, reports, etc. pages, and not even seeing tickets created
>> by others.  Might be worth a look to see what can be done, and see if
>> that fits within the intent of the "shall not access" edict's actual
>> intent.
>
> When we set up multiple trac instances we were completely aware
> of private ticket and wiki page plugins. But the overhead of
> managing this seemed (and still seems) to be relatively high
> even compared to copying one ticket in a while manually from one
> system to another. Note that both departments have also their
> own wiki, SVN, etc.
>
> Thanks for the hint anyway. I'm sure for many similar situations
> your suggestion is be the best solution!

The 0.10 version of TracForge did have a system for this, but it  
wasn't complete and definitely hacky. Did support full bi-directional  
updates though.

--Noah

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