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Today’s Topics:

  1. Re: CommandByMail problems in RT 3.6? (Camron W. Fox)
  2. Re: Custom Fields / Transaction Custom Fields inScrips [FIX!]
    (jesse vincent)
  3. Re: Spam on the Wiki (Benji Wakely)
  4. Re: Spam on the Wiki (Gilmar Santos Jr)
  5. Re: Spam on the Wiki (Jesse Vincent)
  6. LDAP working, now the next step (Jay Vlavianos)
  7. Re: Spam on the Wiki (Gilmar Santos Jr)
  8. Ticket not appearing (Mathew Snyder)
  9. RE: LDAP working, now the next step (Joachim Thuau)

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:26:18 -1000
From: “Camron W. Fox” cwfox@us.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [rt-users] CommandByMail problems in RT 3.6?
To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Message-ID: 44BEBF9A.20400@us.fujitsu.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Camron W. Fox wrote:

Alle,

As anyone had problems installing the patch for CommandByMail 

extension in RT V3.6? I’ve installed the extension and its prereqs,
but when I try to install the patch:

patch -p0
/home/cwfox/RT3/RT-Extension-CommandByMail-0.02/patch/command_by_email
-0.1-RT-3.4.5.patch

OK, nevermind…oxygen narcosis from traveling to the Summit…BUT,

Now I send this input to the generic queue:
Queue: "FAI Internal" Subject: "TEST Command Subject Change" Status: open Owner: cwfox Requestor: consult@subaru.naoj.org CF.{Urgency}: Normal CF.{Area}: DNS

Gentlemen,

This is a test of the commandByMail extension for RT.

Best Regards,
Camron
</MAIL CONTENT>

and a ticket was created in the generic queue with all the input

above as the content. Here are the errors:

[Wed Jul 19 23:11:38 2006] [debug]: Converting ‘ISO-8859-1’ to ‘utf-8’
for text/plain - TEST CommandByMail (/usr/local/rt3/lib/RT/I18N.pm:226)
[Wed Jul 19 23:11:38 2006] [debug]: RT::Ticket=HASH(0xa60f68c) No queue
given for ticket creation. (/usr/local/rt3/lib/RT/Ticket_Overlay.pm:396)
[Wed Jul 19 23:11:38 2006] [error]: Couldn’t create ticket from message with
commands, fallback to standard mailgate.

Error: Could not create ticket. Queue not set
(/usr/local/rt3/local/lib/RT/Interface/Email/Filter/TakeAction.pm:447)
[Wed Jul 19 23:11:38 2006] [warning]: Couldn’t create ticket from message
with commands, fallback to standard mailgate.

Error: Could not create ticket. Queue not set
(/usr/local/rt3/local/lib/RT/Interface/Email/Filter/TakeAction.pm:583)
[Wed Jul 19 23:11:38 2006] [crit]: Couldn’t create ticket from message with
commands, fallback to standard mailgate.

Error: Could not create ticket. Queue not set
(/usr/local/rt3/lib/RT/Interface/Email.pm:242)

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:24:48 -0700
From: “jesse vincent” jesse@bestpractical.com
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Custom Fields / Transaction Custom Fields
inScrips [FIX!]
To: mcoakley@managedbusiness.com
Cc: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Message-ID: 20060719233738.55F414D828A@diesel.bestpractical.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Unfortunately, the patch violates abstraction barriers all over the place.
Io never found a way to do it cleanly

From: Mike Coakley mcoakley@managedbusiness.com
Sent: 19.7.'06, 16:33

For anyone following this thread (doubtful as it is old) I’ve got
everything
working. After looking through the code I noticed that the patch that
Jesse
had released for 3.4 that I had tried to apply did not apply fro some
reason
although I didn’t remember getting any errors. So I re-applied the patch
to
my 3.6 and everything is working as I expected it in the past.

So, I concur with Jesse… His patch does fix the issue :smiley:

Now my only question would be why isn’t this patch in the core yet as of
3.6?

Thanks,


Mike Coakley
Managed Business
http://www.managedbusiness.com
http://my.managedbusiness.com
Voice - 973-252-0770 x2100
Fax - 973-252-1797

From: Mike Coakley mcoakley@managedbusiness.com
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:30:03 -0400
To: “rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Conversation: [rt-users] Custom Fields / Transaction Custom Fields in
Scrips
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Custom Fields / Transaction Custom Fields in
Scrips

Hello all…

In further attempts to get this working I’ve done the following:

  1. I upgraded to RT 3.6.0. Upgrade went smooth but this still does not
    work.

  2. In further research I found an article in the archives that stated
    that
    this was a known issue back in the 3.4 timeframe basically stating the
    the
    Transaction Custom Fields don’t get populated until after the scrips are
    run. There was a patch file available through the archives but this
    patch
    file also did not fix my issue.

So, I’m wondering if anyone has any further help or places I can look.

Thanks,


Mike Coakley
Managed Business
http://www.managedbusiness.com
http://my.managedbusiness.com
Voice - 973-252-0770 x2100
Fax - 973-252-1797

From: Mike Coakley mcoakley@managedbusiness.com
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:02:42 -0400
To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Conversation: Custom Fields / Transaction Custom Fields in Scrips
Subject: [rt-users] Custom Fields / Transaction Custom Fields in Scrips

I’m trying to write a custom condition that will trigger every time a
transaction custom field is updated that will update other custom
fields.
The idea is to keep track of time in a better way.

So I have 2 custom fields: Billable Time and Non-Billable Time. These
are
attached to a ticket. I can easily manually update these fields. I also
have
two Transaction based custom fields: TRANS Billable Time and TRANS
Non-Billable Time. I want to have a condition that fires when the
“TRANS*”
fields get updated. Then when the condition is fired the action will be
to
update the Billable Time and Non-Billable Time field appropriately.

I’ve been doing some debugging within the Scrip condition and it
appears the
condition gets tested twice during a “comment” (haven’t worked on reply
yet). BUT I don’t see the transaction custom field values so my
condition
fails. So I’m either not retrieving the transaction custom field values
improperly (I get no value) or I’m not seeing the right condition.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,


Mike Coakley
Managed Business
http://www.managedbusiness.com
http://my.managedbusiness.com
Voice - 973-252-0770 x2100
Fax - 973-252-1797


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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:15:13 +1000
From: “Benji Wakely” benji.wakely@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Spam on the Wiki
To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Message-ID:
693b1460607191715r5253e513m5d921546cbf3187c@mail.gmail.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

It has been mentioned before but is there a way to get rid of the spam
on the Wiki?

Don’t know how it’ll fly, but:
Semi-public login, posted to the mailing lists regularly?
Word-verification/captcha?

–Benji Wakely
0409 588 566

Message: 4
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:29:10 -0300
From: Gilmar Santos Jr gilmarsantosjr@safernet.org.br
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Spam on the Wiki
Cc: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Message-ID: 44BECE56.2010607@safernet.org.br
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Benji Wakely escreveu:

It has been mentioned before but is there a way to get rid of the spam
on the Wiki?

Don’t know how it’ll fly, but:
Semi-public login, posted to the mailing lists regularly?
Word-verification/captcha?

I take care of a few wiki sites and this problem was relatively solved
by requiring login to edit. In the register process the user writes a
comment about why she/he wants to register and a confirm mail is sent to
the supplied address. The registration is complete when this mail is
replyed or the code sent is inputed in a particular web form. A notice
is generated and sent to the administrator, that can remove the account
if it’s the case.
This way we are fairly safe from robots, and incidents with bad users
are very rare…
Btw, I use TWiki (http://twiki.org/), a very robust, flexible and
extensible wiki.

Gilmar Santos Jr

Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:29:54 -0400
From: Jesse Vincent jesse@bestpractical.com
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Spam on the Wiki
To: Benji Wakely benji.wakely@gmail.com
Cc: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Message-ID: 20060720002952.GQ20065@bestpractical.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

It has been mentioned before but is there a way to get rid of the spam
on the Wiki?

Don’t know how it’ll fly, but:
Semi-public login, posted to the mailing lists regularly?

Our spammers use google.

I think we’ll need to go to a full-email-verified login. Wifty is
almost, but not quite ready for that. The “other” option is Mediawiki,
but my personal distaste for PHP makes that a bit of a non-starter.

Word-verification/captcha?

Tried it. The spammers are humans.

–Benji Wakely
0409 588 566


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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:52:44 -0700
From: “Jay Vlavianos” JVlavianos@ecastinc.com
Subject: [rt-users] LDAP working, now the next step
To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Message-ID:
B973CC4C9A104442ABFC1FE35631118201766B90@arius.corp.ecastinc.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=“us-ascii”

Hurrah! I got LDAP working with Active Directory using the Mosemann
implementation found on the wiki. It took some tweaking and some trial
and error, but I finally got it working with a Windows 2003 AD server
(which is different than 2000). If anyone is having problems getting
that far, I think I can be a resource for you.

NOW I have a problem. I want people to be able to create tickets
without having an account, but then be able to log into the system and
have those tickets associated with their account (by email).

I am currently using the “Auto Create on email, then set password via
Auto Respond” method, which I will need to turn off. Ideally I can have
a replacement for that process that uses LDAP. Does anyone have any
ideas about how I might accomplish the above?

Thanks!
-Jay

Message: 7
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:11:38 -0300
From: Gilmar Santos Jr gilmarsantosjr@safernet.org.br
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Spam on the Wiki
Cc: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Message-ID: 44BED84A.3090009@safernet.org.br
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Jesse Vincent escreveu:

Our spammers use google.

I think we’ll need to go to a full-email-verified login. Wifty is
almost, but not quite ready for that. The “other” option is Mediawiki,
but my personal distaste for PHP makes that a bit of a non-starter.

TWiki is in Perl. :slight_smile:

Gilmar Santos Jr

Message: 8
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:59:38 -0400
From: Mathew Snyder jokermjs19@comcast.net
Subject: [rt-users] Ticket not appearing
To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Message-ID: 44BEE38A.90005@comcast.net
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

A user has pointed out a problem. He was doing a search for resolved
tickets that he owns falling under a specific custom field value. The
ticket exists in the database and has the status of ‘resolved’.
However, entering the ticket number in the search box results in
nothing. Also, doing a search specifically for that ticket on the
Tickets page results in nothing again.

Is there an issue with v3.6.0 that might prevent some tickets from being
displayed or is this just, as my user called it, an RT anomaly? Or,
could something in the ticket get changed within the database which
prevents it from showing up in the UI?

Mathew Snyder

Message: 9
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:05:07 -0700
From: Joachim Thuau jthuau@heavy-iron.com
Subject: RE: [rt-users] LDAP working, now the next step
To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Message-ID:
DF6DDD39BC1C774580886AD497F780B1028DB385@hvirexch01.hvir.thq.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=“iso-8859-1”

I just went through the step to setup the auth from the wiki, using LDAP.
following all the steps (and now that my exchange and AD are sync’ed
throught the exchange connector), gave me the ability to logon with my AD
password, and have users registered the same way.

If a user send an email, their account is created automatically, and
populated with the right details from AD.
If a user logon using a browser, the same thing happens. As long as exchange
and AD have “sync’ed” data (the connector wasn’t configured properly in our
case, but since it’s there, everything is working beautifully.)

my understanding is that with the LDAP plugin/extension setup, the
authentication happens over LDAP against AD, and the user details (including
emails and stuff) is pulled from AD as well. so when a user sends an email,
an account for that user is created with their AD login (minus the domain).
the password being checked is the one is AD.

So if you look at the auth extension for the ldap in the wiki.

i believe the pages that i looked at are the one linked from there:
http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?LDAP

not the one you referenced.

RT3.6, apache 1.3, perl 5.8.8.

Thanks to Jim Meyer. It works for me™.
Jok