More remarks and bugs about approvals

RT Developers
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Hi,

This is my second list of remarks concerning approvals:

  • The status for an approval ticket are : new, rejected and resolved. Why
    not new, rejected, approved, or even pending, rejected, approved?

  • When viewing a ticket, or a ticket list (queues, home page), there is no
    difference between a normal and an approval ticket. It is possible to "open"
    a approbation ticket, is that ok?

  • Nothing prevents closing a ticket when an approval is pending or rejected.
    Shouldn’t it behave like normal tickets dependencies : if an approval is
    pending, closing the related ticket is not possible. The error message is
    "That ticket has unresolved dependencies", an new message could be “That
    ticket depends on pending or rejected approvals”.

  • Forget about my previous “bug” about the dependency links, it was due to a
    spelling mistake in my configuration file. Still, I believe the link should
    be different when the dependency is an approval ticket so it directs to the
    approval interface rather than the standard ticket one.

  • When adding a dependency, the confirmation message is only partially
    translated :
    Le lien est ajoute (Ticket 7903 RefersTo ticket
    fsck.com-rt://dauphin-affichage.com/ticket/8105.)
    The message starting with fsck.com-rt:// may look cryptic to a user.

  • All status are translated in the relationship area, exept the "Children"
    one. The owner does not appear :
    Parents: 7911: (Nobody) test [nouveau]
    Children: 7905: test appro [open]

I’ve been asked for a kind of workflow application here where I think RT
plus the new approval stuff may be the right answer. I’ll try to build a
working prototype, but I feel there is still some work to be done on this
part of the software before it is fully operationnal. I guess this is normal
as those new features are completely new.

Blaise

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Hi,

This is my second list of remarks concerning approvals:

  • The status for an approval ticket are : new, rejected and resolved. Why
    not new, rejected, approved, or even pending, rejected, approved?

Really, because those are the standard names. I can see cleaning them up
in the future. open a bug by mailing rt-3.0-bugs@fsck.com?

  • When viewing a ticket, or a ticket list (queues, home page), there is no
    difference between a normal and an approval ticket. It is possible to “open”
    a approbation ticket, is that ok?

It should be just fine. longer term, better handling to hide “special”
sorts of tickets would be good.

  • Nothing prevents closing a ticket when an approval is pending or rejected.
    Shouldn’t it behave like normal tickets dependencies : if an approval is
    pending, closing the related ticket is not possible. The error message is
    “That ticket has unresolved dependencies”, an new message could be “That
    ticket depends on pending or rejected approvals”.

By closing, do you mean resolving or rejecting? you should be able to
“abandon” a ticket that depends on things (by rejecting it yourself) but
should not be able to resolve it.

  • Forget about my previous “bug” about the dependency links, it was due to a
    spelling mistake in my configuration file. Still, I believe the link should
    be different when the dependency is an approval ticket so it directs to the
    approval interface rather than the standard ticket one.

nod that makes sense.

  • When adding a dependency, the confirmation message is only partially
    translated :
    Le lien est ajoute (Ticket 7903 RefersTo ticket
    fsck.com-rt://dauphin-affichage.com/ticket/8105.)
    The message starting with fsck.com-rt:// may look cryptic to a user.

  • All status are translated in the relationship area, exept the “Children”
    one. The owner does not appear :
    Parents: 7911: (Nobody) test [nouveau]
    Children: 7905: test appro [open]

It’s probably missing a loc call. I’ll have a look.

I’ve been asked for a kind of workflow application here where I think RT
plus the new approval stuff may be the right answer. I’ll try to build a
working prototype, but I feel there is still some work to be done on this
part of the software before it is fully operationnal. I guess this is normal
as those new features are completely new.

nod It should be functional now for simple applications, but It can
definitely stand improvement going forwards.

Blaise

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—Message d’origine-----

  • Nothing prevents closing a ticket when an approval is pending or
    rejected.
    Shouldn’t it behave like normal tickets dependencies : if an approval is
    pending, closing the related ticket is not possible. The error message is
    “That ticket has unresolved dependencies”, an new message could be “That
    ticket depends on pending or rejected approvals”.

By closing, do you mean resolving or rejecting? you should be able to
“abandon” a ticket that depends on things (by rejecting it yourself) but
should not be able to resolve it.

In this specific case, I have a normal ticket which automatically created an
approval “dependOn” ticket in another queue.

Even though the approval sub ticket is not touched, I can close the parent
ticket.

This would not happen if the approval ticket was a standard “children”
ticket. RT would make sure I have closed the children to be able to close
the parent.
Similarly, I should be forced to approve the subticket to be able to “close”
the main one.
Should the approval ticket be “rejected”, the parent ticket could then only
be “abandoned”.

My test shows that currently, RT does not check for the state of “DependOn”
tickets if they are of type “approval”

Blaise