Seeing that the TimeLeft column wasn’t functional on my ticket listings
(always has a value of 0 whether or not the ticket has a due date), I
decided to try to replace this column with the value of the Due column. I
got the basic idea working, but I would like to clean up the column a
bit. How would I make the template output something more like
March 7, 2004
instead of
2004-04-04 06:00:00
I figure there’s two places this could be done: in the SQL call itself, and
in the template via some formatting function. I’m assuming (perhaps
wrongly but some simple greps seemed to indicate this) that the SQL is
generated dynamically in some abstraction layer and that it would be easier
to do this in the template. A scan of the Mason docs did not produce any
sort of function reference (I’ve never looked at Mason before - I assume
like other template systems that there’s a set of standard functions
provided to the templates, some of which are usually suitable for
formatting dates).
So, what approach should I take here? As an aside, I would also like this
to not display anything if there’s no real due date - right now it displays
the default 1970 date even though the db schema indicates that this column
should default to NULL.
Also, this is still sort of a hack - I would really like to have it say “3
days left”, but since it appears that the TimeLeft functionality is not
working (RT 3.0.9), I’m not sure how hard this would be to implement. I
would have to do something like Due - now() and get the result in
days. Again, without access to the SQL layer, I wouldn’t know where to
look for this. Approaches to take for this also appreciated.
Thanks,
Fran
PS - Is much of the RT2 Hacker’s Guide still applicable to RT3?
Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama - Birmingham
fran@cis.uab.edu
(205) 934-0653