Hey all,
I really wanted the content of a new ticket to be emailed to
the user that "take"s the ticket from the queue. The only way I could figure
to make this happen was to set NotifyActor to 1 in the Site_Config. But now
I am running across a whole mess of stuff being set to the owner while they
are working within a ticket that I would rather not have happening. replying
to a requestor from the user’s email account for one. I am just wondering if
there is anyone to override this NotifyActor setting in a custom scrip for
only this one task. Maybe something along the lines of setting a custom
scrip to just ignore the fact that NotifyActor is set to 0 for this
particular scrip. If it is not possible, then I guess I will have to live
with the extra emails being sent back to the owner on all of their
correspondence, because I really need to keep the ability to have a
requestor’s initial email sent to the owner’s email once they take that
ticket.
thanks in advance for any direction or wisdom !
Blake,
I’m curious. Is there some reason a person wouldn’t know what they were
getting when they take a ticket? I mean, I have to SEE the ticket in order
to take it. If I can see it, I can look at the info. So why do I need an
email to tell me I took a ticket when I’m the one that actually initiated
that act?
Also, what a person gets in that email is up to you. You can modify any
template to include/exclude all sorts of info when a condition triggers it.
Have you thought about having an email go just to the requestor when a
ticket is created and one just to the requestor when it is taken? You
could also create a separate notification just for the new owner if you *
really* think he needs it. All with different info in the template.
Just a few thoughts.On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Blake Turner blake@eos-3.com wrote:
Hey all,
I really wanted the content of a new ticket to be emailed
to the user that "take"s the ticket from the queue. The only way I could
figure to make this happen was to set NotifyActor to 1 in the Site_Config.
But now I am running across a whole mess of stuff being set to the owner
while they are working within a ticket that I would rather not have
happening… replying to a requestor from the user’s email account for one. I
am just wondering if there is anyone to override this NotifyActor setting in
a custom scrip for only this one task. Maybe something along the lines of
setting a custom scrip to just ignore the fact that NotifyActor is set to 0
for this particular scrip. If it is not possible, then I guess I will have
to live with the extra emails being sent back to the owner on all of their
correspondence, because I really need to keep the ability to have a
requestor’s initial email sent to the owner’s email once they take that
ticket.
thanks in advance for any direction or wisdom !
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Ken,
The reason that I Ned to owner to get an email is so that they can respond to the ticket directly from their email client, rather than via the RT web console.
In regards to the template email to the owner that takes a ticket: I was unable to get that to work with out enabling the NotifyActor. I assumed because the user that is taking ownership is actually performing the action. I would definately be able to do what I need if I could get a " when someone takes a ticket" scrip to actually send an email template out to the new owner.Kenneth Crocker kfcrocker@lbl.gov wrote:
Blake,
I’m curious. Is there some reason a person wouldn’t know what they were
getting when they take a ticket? I mean, I have to SEE the ticket in order
to take it. If I can see it, I can look at the info. So why do I need an
email to tell me I took a ticket when I’m the one that actually initiated
that act?
Also, what a person gets in that email is up to you. You can modify any
template to include/exclude all sorts of info when a condition triggers it.
Have you thought about having an email go just to the requestor when a
ticket is created and one just to the requestor when it is taken? You
could also create a separate notification just for the new owner if you *
really* think he needs it. All with different info in the template.
Just a few thoughts.
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Blake Turner blake@eos-3.com wrote:
Hey all,
I really wanted the content of a new ticket to be emailed
to the user that "take"s the ticket from the queue. The only way I could
figure to make this happen was to set NotifyActor to 1 in the Site_Config.
But now I am running across a whole mess of stuff being set to the owner
while they are working within a ticket that I would rather not have
happening… replying to a requestor from the user’s email account for one. I
am just wondering if there is anyone to override this NotifyActor setting in
a custom scrip for only this one task. Maybe something along the lines of
setting a custom scrip to just ignore the fact that NotifyActor is set to 0
for this particular scrip. If it is not possible, then I guess I will have
to live with the extra emails being sent back to the owner on all of their
correspondence, because I really need to keep the ability to have a
requestor’s initial email sent to the owner’s email once they take that
ticket.
thanks in advance for any direction or wisdom !
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Blake,
I think the new 3.8.8 release allows for individual override on the
NotifyActor in preferences. So, if you have users that wanted to be notified
when they did something, they could turn that on. Since the transaction is
already retained in the ticket history, most don’t want the unnecessary
email, but hey, that’s why they make different flavors of ice-cream. Good
luck.
Kenn
LBNLOn Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Blake Turner blake@eos-3.com wrote:
Ken,
The reason that I Ned to owner to get an email is so that they can respond
to the ticket directly from their email client, rather than via the RT web
console.
In regards to the template email to the owner that takes a ticket: I was
unable to get that to work with out enabling the NotifyActor. I assumed
because the user that is taking ownership is actually performing the action.
I would definately be able to do what I need if I could get a " when someone
takes a ticket" scrip to actually send an email template out to the new
owner.
Kenneth Crocker kfcrocker@lbl.gov wrote:
Blake,
I’m curious. Is there some reason a person wouldn’t know what they were
getting when they take a ticket? I mean, I have to SEE the ticket in
order
to take it. If I can see it, I can look at the info. So why do I need an
email to tell me I took a ticket when I’m the one that actually initiated
that act?
Also, what a person gets in that email is up to you. You can modify any
template to include/exclude all sorts of info when a condition triggers
it.
Have you thought about having an email go just to the requestor when a
ticket is created and one just to the requestor when it is taken? You
could also create a separate notification just for the new owner if you
really* think he needs it. All with different info in the template.
Just a few thoughts.
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Blake Turner blake@eos-3.com wrote:
Hey all,
I really wanted the content of a new ticket to be
emailed
to the user that "take"s the ticket from the queue. The only way I could
figure to make this happen was to set NotifyActor to 1 in the
Site_Config.
But now I am running across a whole mess of stuff being set to the owner
while they are working within a ticket that I would rather not have
happening… replying to a requestor from the user’s email account for
one. I
am just wondering if there is anyone to override this NotifyActor
setting in
a custom scrip for only this one task. Maybe something along the lines
of
setting a custom scrip to just ignore the fact that NotifyActor is set
to 0
for this particular scrip. If it is not possible, then I guess I will
have
to live with the extra emails being sent back to the owner on all of
their
correspondence, because I really need to keep the ability to have a
requestor’s initial email sent to the owner’s email once they take that
ticket.
thanks in advance for any direction or wisdom !
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The reason that I Ned to owner to get an email is so that they can respond to the ticket directly from their email client, rather than via the RT web console.
This just seems utterly pointless, even for an RT-phobe, the switching
back and forth is unnecessary.
If you really want to support this sort of thing my recommendation would
be to have the users setup to receive notifications of new tickets. They
can then reply, and in combination with one of the scrips on the wiki,
become the owner if they are the first to act on it.
If you really want to support this sort of thing my recommendation would
be to have the users setup to receive notifications of new tickets. They
can then reply, and in combination with one of the scrips on the wiki,
become the owner if they are the first to act on it.
I really like this method… I have the ticket creation notifications going
to a shared mailbox for all the users to see. but I cannot seem to find a
sample scrip on the wiki to assign ownership of a ticket based on the email
address that the reply came from. I mean I know I can set the owner of the
ticket by using:
$self->TicketObj->SetOwner(‘Some User’);
But I cannot find a reference to pulling the email address that the reply
came from to match it with ‘Some User’.
Any advice on how to make that happen?
Thanks for the ideas!
I really like this method… I have the ticket creation notifications going
to a shared mailbox for all the users to see. but I cannot seem to find a
sample scrip on the wiki to assign ownership of a ticket based on the email
address that the reply came from. I mean I know I can set the owner of the
ticket by using:
Ahh, it must have been from the book then:
Description: On Correspond Open Ticket
Condition: On Correspond
Action: Open Tickets
Template: Blank #Use Transaction if you want notification
Stage: TransactionCreate
That should do it.
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Ahh, it must have been from the book then:
Description: On Correspond Open Ticket
Condition: On Correspond
Action: Open Tickets
Template: Blank #Use Transaction if you want notification
Stage: TransactionCreate
That should do it.
I am even more confused than ever now. That scrip is there by default, but
checking the logs after I reply to a ‘ticket creation’ email, that scrip
isnt invoked at all.
When a requestor sends an email to create a ticket the first scrip that runs
is:
Description: On Create Notify ALL Users
Condition: On Create
Action: Notify Other Recipients
Template: Global Template: Notify Users
Stage: TransactionCreate
The template is just a simple message to a shared mailbox:
A New Ticket has been created in the Client Support Queue. If you would like
to take ownership of this ticket, reply to this email with the word “take”
in the body.
… so if a user replies to that email, I want to set that user as the owner
and send the {$Ticket->Transactions->First->Content} out to that user, so
they can begin working on it.
The only piece that I cannot seem to figure out is how to have the On
Correspond scrip look at the email address, and match that to a user in RT
so that I can assign them as the owner of this ticket.
Yeah, my bad.
On Correspond Auto-take by AdminCc
Action:
my $Actor = $self->TransactionObj->Creator;
my $Queue = $self->TicketObj->QueueObj;
return 1 if $Actor == $RT::SystemUser->id;
return 1 unless $self->TicketObj->Owner == $RT::Nobody->id;
return 1 unless $Queue->IsWatcher(Type => ‘AdminCc’, PrincipalId => $Actor);
my($status, $msg) = $self->TicketObj->SetOwner( $Actor );
unless( $status ) {
$RT::Logger->warning( “Can’t set ticket owner to $Actor: $msg” );
return undef;
}
return 1;
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Jerrad,
Thanks a lot. I actually ended up using the AutoSetOwner that was
linked on the page you posted. But in any event, it worked perfectly !-----Original Message-----
From: Jerrad Pierce [mailto:jpierce@cambridgeenergyalliance.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:05 AM
To: Blake Turner
Cc: rt-users
Subject: Re: [rt-users] To NotifyActor or not to NotifyActor …
Yeah, my bad.
On Correspond Auto-take by AdminCc
Action:
my $Actor = $self->TransactionObj->Creator;
my $Queue = $self->TicketObj->QueueObj;
return 1 if $Actor == $RT::SystemUser->id;
return 1 unless $self->TicketObj->Owner == $RT::Nobody->id;
return 1 unless $Queue->IsWatcher(Type => ‘AdminCc’, PrincipalId => $Actor);
my($status, $msg) = $self->TicketObj->SetOwner( $Actor );
unless( $status ) {
$RT::Logger->warning( “Can’t set ticket owner to $Actor: $msg” );
return undef;
}
return 1;
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