I’m trying to figure out how to get the value of a custom field for a user. My
script goes through transactions and adds time up for each privileged user,
creates a HoHoH, manipulates the data and enters it into a file. The file is
then emailed to a few people. However, I would like to be able to add each user
to one of two hashes based on a user custom field, populate two files based on
the hashes and then email each to the appropriate person.
I don’t know how to go about getting the custom field value for a creator of a
transaction, though. I’m guessing I would have load the user object of the
creator and then use FirstCustomFieldValue on it, using the result of that to
determine which hash to place the user in.
Is this what it should look like?
my $transactions = $ticket->Transactions;
while (my $transaction = $transactions->Next) {
next unless ($transaction->TimeTaken);
next unless $creator->Privileged;
my $creator = $transaction->CreatorObj;
my $user = new RT::User(RT::SystemUser);
$user->Load(‘$creator’);
my $dept = $user->FirstCustomFieldValue(‘Department’);
if ($dept == ‘Engineering’) {
$eng{$env}{$creator->Name} += $transaction->TimeTaken;
}elsif ($dept == ‘Operations’) {
$ops{$env}{$creator->Name} += $transaction->TimeTaken;
}else{
next;
}
}
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I’m not a guru, but the scrip logic looks right to me. If it’s not
working, try replacing your $dept “==” equality checks with “eq” for strings.
At 01:54 AM 5/10/2007, Mathew Snyder wrote:
I’m trying to figure out how to get the value of a custom field for a
user. My
script goes through transactions and adds time up for each privileged user,
creates a HoHoH, manipulates the data and enters it into a file. The file is
then emailed to a few people. However, I would like to be able to add
each user
to one of two hashes based on a user custom field, populate two files based on
the hashes and then email each to the appropriate person.
I don’t know how to go about getting the custom field value for a creator of a
transaction, though. I’m guessing I would have load the user object of the
creator and then use FirstCustomFieldValue on it, using the result of that to
determine which hash to place the user in.
Is this what it should look like?
my $transactions = $ticket->Transactions;
while (my $transaction = $transactions->Next) {
next unless ($transaction->TimeTaken);
next unless $creator->Privileged;
my $creator = $transaction->CreatorObj;
my $user = new RT::User(RT::SystemUser);
$user->Load(‘$creator’);
my $dept = $user->FirstCustomFieldValue(‘Department’);
if ($dept == ‘Engineering’) {
$eng{$env}{$creator->Name} +=
$transaction->TimeTaken;
}elsif ($dept == ‘Operations’) {
$ops{$env}{$creator->Name} +=
$transaction->TimeTaken;
}else{
next;
}
}
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I’ve stepped through this with the debugger and have found that the $dept
variable isn’t being populated. I’ve also double checked that the custom field
has a value for each privileged user within RT so I know it shouldn’t be blank
all the time. I’ve also changed the ‘==’ to ‘eq’ like it should be.
Any thoughts?
Mathew
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Gene LeDuc wrote:
Nevermind, I figured out that I wasn’t using the Name method on my
$creator object. Also, I needed to take the quotes from around
$creator-Name on the line containing $user->Load(’$creator’);
It is now $user->Load($creator->Name); which works exactly as I’d hoped.
Mathew Snyder wrote: