Michiel Beijen wrote:
> Hallo Jeroen,
> 
> We applaud that your company is willing to contribute to OTRS.
> 

Cheers!

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> But first I'd like to point out that I guess your patch is not needed to
> realize the scenario you want. The Customer ID is not necessarily unique
> per customer user! We often make it unique for whatever in your world
> defines a logical set of customers, this can be a customer company, or a
> department if you do in-house IT, or a cost center, or such.
> 
> So if you would have customer users like this:
> 
> User      Customer ID
> ======================
> John D.   example.com
> Bill O.   example.com
> Dave K.   acme.com
> Sue S.    acme.com
> 
> This way you can let people from acme.com view all tickets from acme.com
> without the need to patch or change anything in your OTRS setup. The
> only thing is that you need to find an attibute in LDAP that is the same
> for all customers that belong to one company (or 'partner').
> 

This would work, most definitely. It would associate all users with one or the 
other Customer ID, which I suppose serves our scenario very well; from the 
perspective of OTRS.

My question is, however, where the Customer ID accounting goes. Given that the 
customer users come from LDAP, I'm assuming their Customer ID must also come 
from LDAP?

One possible future scenario in the Kolab Systems case could be that we 
provide the infrastructure for partner @partner.com to support customer 
@customer.com. I would add the cn=partner-partner.com LDAP group as a member 
to LDAP group cn=customer-customer.com.

Such scenario, I think, pretty much represents the flexibility OTRS allows for 
now, but, in my opinion, with far less overhead.

Please let me know what you think, I'd appreciate ;-)

-- 
Jeroen van Meeuwen
Senior Engineer, Kolab Systems AG

e: [email protected]
t: +316 42 801 403
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