Find the first day of this month

Hi all,

This has been kicked around a few times over the years if google & the list
archives are anything to go on, but I haven’t actually seen a solution that
meets what any of the requestors (and me) want.

Which is… to run a search using a date like:

Queue = ‘myqueue’ and ( ( Status = ‘open’ or Status = ‘new’ ) OR (
Resolved > ‘first dow after last month’ ) )

or “last month + 1” or “first dom” or really anything that will
programmatically always return the first day of this month. I have a shell
script that does this by constructing a date in bash, and then passing the
date to the query as a variable, but I can’t do this within the “save
search” function.

The reason I’m after “save search” is that the HTML reports are easier for
humans to read than the TSV extracts that the bash scripts generate.

things like “last month” get close - but it simply works out “now - 30
days”. And I can’t see a way in Time::ParseDate to extract the month and
year in the same way I would in bash using something like date +%b

MIT have a nice page that has better examples than the Time::Parse doco
How do I do a relative date search in Reqest Tracker? - IS&T Contributions - Hermes but I
can’t work out how to construct the thing I want using what’s available.

Please tell me I’m wrong!

Regards,

Chris

I also looked at the Attributes table, but the actual SavedSearch is stored
as a binary blob AFAICT? I was going to head down the path of updating the
contents of the field with a programmatically generated string once a day
or something like that:

queue = “myqueue” and Created > “2015-12-01”

i.e. just change the date in question every day so that the Dashboards and
scheduled email reports always have the desired dates. But… I can’t see
how to do it with what’s there… (a BLOB). And it looks really blobby too

  • proper blob… not just a bunch of TEXT that happens to be stored as a
    BLOB?On 8 December 2015 at 21:55, Chris Herrmann chrisherrmann7@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all,

This has been kicked around a few times over the years if google & the
list archives are anything to go on, but I haven’t actually seen a solution
that meets what any of the requestors (and me) want.

Which is… to run a search using a date like:

Queue = ‘myqueue’ and ( ( Status = ‘open’ or Status = ‘new’ ) OR (
Resolved > ‘first dow after last month’ ) )

or “last month + 1” or “first dom” or really anything that will
programmatically always return the first day of this month. I have a shell
script that does this by constructing a date in bash, and then passing the
date to the query as a variable, but I can’t do this within the “save
search” function.

The reason I’m after “save search” is that the HTML reports are easier for
humans to read than the TSV extracts that the bash scripts generate.

things like “last month” get close - but it simply works out “now - 30
days”. And I can’t see a way in Time::ParseDate to extract the month and
year in the same way I would in bash using something like date +%b

MIT have a nice page that has better examples than the Time::Parse doco
How do I do a relative date search in Reqest Tracker? - IS&T Contributions - Hermes but I
can’t work out how to construct the thing I want using what’s available.

Please tell me I’m wrong!

Regards,

Chris

Hi Chris,

won’t help you now but RT 4.4.0 will support this if you set
$PreferDateTimeFormatNatural to 1:

If you really need this in RT 4.2 you can try applying these commits:

Maybe this will work, but I didn’t checked it.

ChrisAm 08.12.2015 um 11:55 schrieb Chris Herrmann:

Hi all,

This has been kicked around a few times over the years if google & the
list archives are anything to go on, but I haven’t actually seen a
solution that meets what any of the requestors (and me) want.

Which is… to run a search using a date like:

Queue = ‘myqueue’ and ( ( Status = ‘open’ or Status = ‘new’ ) OR (
Resolved > ‘first dow after last month’ ) )

or “last month + 1” or “first dom” or really anything that will
programmatically always return the first day of this month. I have a
shell script that does this by constructing a date in bash, and then
passing the date to the query as a variable, but I can’t do this within
the “save search” function.

The reason I’m after “save search” is that the HTML reports are easier
for humans to read than the TSV extracts that the bash scripts generate.

things like “last month” get close - but it simply works out “now - 30
days”. And I can’t see a way in Time::ParseDate to extract the month and
year in the same way I would in bash using something like date +%b

MIT have a nice page that has better examples than the Time::Parse doco
How do I do a relative date search in Reqest Tracker? - IS&T Contributions - Hermes but I
can’t work out how to construct the thing I want using what’s available.

Please tell me I’m wrong!

Regards,

Chris