Parse initial e-mail

I am attempting to parse the initial email that initiates a ticket.

I have created a custom scrip. This part I have working:

Description: $Descrip_name (not important)
Condition: User Defined
Action: Notify CCs as Comment
Template: $Templ_name (again, not important; but the template itself
included below)
Stage: TransactionCreate

Custom Condition:
if($self->TicketObj->Status eq ‘new’ and
$self->TransactionObj->CreatorObj->EmailAddress() =~ /$match_pattern/
){
return 1;
}

…for privacy I have, obviously, substituted “$match_pattern” for the
actual pattern the condition contains…

Custom action preparation code:

my $self = $Transaction;
my @lines = split(/\n/,$self->TicketObj->Transactions->First->Attachments->First->Content());

foreach my $this_line ( @lines ){
if ( $this_line =~ /Caller's Phone Number:/ ){;
my ($caller) = ($this_line);
return $caller;
} else {
next;
}
}
1;

Custom action cleanup code:

1;

The custom scrip this triggers:

A call from {$caller} has created [{$rtname} #{$Ticket->id()}] in the
Trouble Ticket system.

Unfortunately, the output I receive is:

A call from has created [garagenet.com #NNN] in the Trouble Ticket system.

Clearly, although I have figured out how to create the correct trigger
condition, I have not determined how to parse the initial email.
Does anyone have any idea what I’m doing wrong? Is there any tutorial
on the RT Ticket/Transaction object schema, as it relates to accessing
aspects of it in a custom scrip?

Any help will, truly, be gratefully appreciated. Thanks in advance…

peace

I am attempting to parse the initial email that initiates a ticket.

I have created a custom scrip. This part I have working:

Description: $Descrip_name (not important)
Condition: User Defined
Action: Notify CCs as Comment
Template: $Templ_name (again, not important; but the template itself
included below)
Stage: TransactionCreate

Custom Condition:
if($self->TicketObj->Status eq ‘new’ and
$self->TransactionObj->CreatorObj->EmailAddress() =~ /$match_pattern/
){
return 1;
}

…for privacy I have, obviously, substituted “$match_pattern” for the
actual pattern the condition contains…

Custom action preparation code:

my $self = $Transaction;
my @lines = split(/\n/,$self->TicketObj->Transactions->First->Attachments->First->Content());

foreach my $this_line ( @lines ){
if ( $this_line =~ /Caller's Phone Number:/ ){;
my ($caller) = ($this_line);
return $caller;
} else {
next;
}
}
1;

Custom action cleanup code:

1;

The custom scrip this triggers:

Subject: AutoReply: Toll-free support call

A call from {$caller} has created [{$rtname} #{$Ticket->id()}] in the
Trouble Ticket system.

Unfortunately, the output I receive is:

A call from has created [garagenet.com #NNN] in the Trouble Ticket system.

Clearly, although I have figured out how to create the correct trigger
condition, I have not determined how to parse the initial email.
Does anyone have any idea what I’m doing wrong? Is there any tutorial
on the RT Ticket/Transaction object schema, as it relates to accessing
aspects of it in a custom scrip?

First, using Status eq ‘new’ for your condition probably isn’t the thing to do.
Use something like:

return undef unless ($self->TransactionObj->Type eq “Create”);

Secondly, you have no code in the template to give $caller any sort of
value. I think you can rip that whole custom action out and if you
use the same code to fetch the value for $caller right in the
template, it would probably work.

Andy Harrison