How to use the Attributes table?

RT Developers
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In the RT 3.2.2 release notes, it says:

* RT now provides an 'Attributes' table, which allows local

developers
to easily extend all of RT’s database tables with new read/write
attributes without needing to modify RT’s core schema

But I can’t seem to find any documentation on the Wiki site specifying
how to use this table. Can someone please direct me to the appropriate
document?

Thanks.

2

In the RT 3.2.2 release notes, it says:

* RT now provides an 'Attributes' table, which allows local

developers
to easily extend all of RT’s database tables with new read/write
attributes without needing to modify RT’s core schema

But I can’t seem to find any documentation on the Wiki site specifying
how to use this table. Can someone please direct me to the appropriate
document?

perldoc <RT_DIR>/lib/RT/Attributes.pm

(and Attributes_Overlay.pm, Attribute.pm, Attribute_Overlay.pm)

Andy Harrison

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At Tuesday 12/14/2004 03:15 PM, Kumar, Vasanth wrote:

In the RT 3.2.2 release notes, it says:

* RT now provides an 'Attributes' table, which allows local

developers
to easily extend all of RT’s database tables with new read/write
attributes without needing to modify RT’s core schema

But I can’t seem to find any documentation on the Wiki site specifying
how to use this table. Can someone please direct me to the appropriate
document?

Thanks.

An example - I’ve used attributes to store additional user preferences:

my $attr = new RT::Attribute($session{‘CurrentUser’});
my @results = $attr->Create (Name => $Name, # Name of the atribute
Content =>
$Value, # Value you want to store
ContentType => $ValueType, # I
used “String”
Object =>
$Object); # Object you want to attach the
attribute to (in
my case a RT::User object)

To retrieve the attribute(s):

my @attrs = $Object->Attributes->Named($Name);

Where $Object is the user’s RT::User object and $Name is the attribute name.

Steve

4

Don’t you need to associate the attribute with an ObjectId?On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:12:41AM -0500, Stephen Turner wrote:

At Tuesday 12/14/2004 03:15 PM, Kumar, Vasanth wrote:

In the RT 3.2.2 release notes, it says:

  • RT now provides an ‘Attributes’ table, which allows local
    developers
    to easily extend all of RT’s database tables with new read/write
    attributes without needing to modify RT’s core schema

But I can’t seem to find any documentation on the Wiki site specifying
how to use this table. Can someone please direct me to the appropriate
document?

Thanks.

An example - I’ve used attributes to store additional user preferences:

my $attr = new RT::Attribute($session{‘CurrentUser’});
my @results = $attr->Create (Name => $Name, # Name of the
atribute
Content =>
$Value, # Value you want to store
ContentType => $ValueType, # I
used “String”
Object =>
$Object); # Object you want to attach the
attribute to (in
# my case a RT::User object)

To retrieve the attribute(s):

my @attrs = $Object->Attributes->Named($Name);

Where $Object is the user’s RT::User object and $Name is the attribute name.

Steve

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At Thursday 12/16/2004 09:42 AM, Todd Chapman wrote:

Don’t you need to associate the attribute with an ObjectId?

my $attr = new RT::Attribute($session{‘CurrentUser’});
my @results = $attr->Create (Name => $Name, # Name of the
atribute
Content
=> $Value, # Value you want to store
ContentType => $ValueType, #
I used “String”
Object => $Object); #
Object you want to attach the
attribute to (in my case a RT::User object)

Well, with an object, strictly speaking - in my case I was attaching the
attribute to a user, so I passed in the RT::User object to the attribute’s
Create method. Alternatively you could pass Object ID & Object Type to the
Create method.

Steve