[otrs] Email option in Queue view

2007-11-27 Thread DataForce CRM
Hi, the email option to send empty email to a ticket creator is now blanked out or not available in my otrs. This has been working and I do not believe I changed anything. How do I get this email option back to respond to ticket queries? This is in the ticket view at right under Contact

[otrs] Time-Accountig

2007-11-27 Thread Agim Cami
I Installed the Time-Accountig module, but I don't see any trace of it on the menus. So, my question is : how to start using it? Thnx. -- ___ OTRS mailing list: otrs - Webpage: http://otrs.org/ Archive: http://lists.otrs.org/pipermail/otrs To

RE: [otrs] Email option in Queue view

2007-11-27 Thread Obee, Daniel
Hi! Either you deleted the response in the admin menu or you didn't connect it to the queue. Just check [ Responses - Queue ] in the admin menue for a check. Greetz, Daniel From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DataForce CRM

[otrs] Create or search ticket using an URL

2007-11-27 Thread Anders Schjelderup Lyng
I am trying to connect my ACD-application (ACD=Automatic Call Distributor) to OTRS What I want is to be able to display in my ACD-application a URL for creating tickets and for searching tickets. I want to automatically crate a ticket for the spesific user and search that users tickets. I want

Re: [otrs] Time-Accountig

2007-11-27 Thread Rico Barth
Hi Agim Cami, first you need to assign the required rights to the users who're going to use the time accounting module. See the OTRS-Admin area for a new group time_Accounting. If you need full access, give rw-rights (to set it up and in order to have a look at the time-accounting-module

RE: [otrs] Create or search ticket using an URL

2007-11-27 Thread Obee, Daniel
Hi! You won't need two links, one is sufficient. Just open a new phone ticket. Any existing ticket to the given customer will be displayed at the end of the ticket mask, so agents can take them if applicable. The link could look like that:

[otrs] Difference between tn and id

2007-11-27 Thread Simon Adams
Hey guys, I'm modifying OTRS fairly heavily for a large implementation. Part of this is creating tickets from our own customised interface, which we've done. The main issue is with the fields TN and ID. Does anyone know why tickets in OTRS have 2 identifiers? Is there a way to tell OTRS to only

Re: [otrs] Difference between tn and id

2007-11-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Simon Adams wrote: I'm modifying OTRS fairly heavily for a large implementation. Part of this is creating tickets from our own customised interface, which we've done. The main issue is with the fields TN and ID. Does anyone know why tickets in OTRS have 2 identifiers? Is there a way to

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
OK, I understand the reasoning behind that, but it leads me to another question: In OTRS, isn't it plainly visible to all Agents when a ticket has been assigned to an individual? Here is what we have in mind at my organization: Support requests come in. The department manager either assigns

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kris Jacobs wrote: OK, I understand the reasoning behind that, but it leads me to another question: In OTRS, isn't it plainly visible to all Agents when a ticket has been assigned to an individual? It is, when a ticket is locked. :o) Here is what we have in mind at my organization:

RE: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Obee, Daniel
There's the option to differentiate between owner and responsible. Maybe that's what you're looking for. I have no experience with that one whatsoever, just know the feature exists: Switch on the ticket responsible feature in Config Options: Ticket - Core::Ticket Ticket::Responsible:

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
Ah, I just formulated some further thought: Could I simply create 1 queue per agent? That way, in this IT department, there would be one 'main' queue, and when a ticket is assigned or when someone takes ownership of the ticket, it is moved to an agent's individual queue. The department manager

RE: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Peter van Beugen
Yes, you can Make a Group for each person -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Kris Jacobs Verzonden: dinsdag 27 november 2007 14:23 Aan: User questions and discussions about OTRS.org Onderwerp: Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking? Ah, I

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kris Jacobs wrote: Ah, I just formulated some further thought: Could I simply create 1 queue per agent? That way, in this IT department, there would be one 'main' queue, and when a ticket is assigned or when someone takes ownership of the ticket, it is moved to an agent's individual queue.

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kris Jacobs wrote: Perhaps this is a lot simpler in practice, but this whole Locking concept concerns me a bit. Here is a scenario: Agent A takes a call in the morning from a User. Agent A opens new ticket#101001, and begins troubleshooting. Agent A takes a few more calls - and while Agent

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
Thanks Nils. I have had it setup for days. I am opening and closing and manipulating test tickets now. The default Locking is a problem that I will have to work around if I am going to use OTRS. It looks like I can simply set Automatic Unlocking to something low like 2 minutes. Nils

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
Perhaps this is a lot simpler in practice, but this whole Locking concept concerns me a bit. Here is a scenario: Agent A takes a call in the morning from a User. Agent A opens new ticket#101001, and begins troubleshooting. Agent A takes a few more calls - and while Agent A is on the phone with

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kris Jacobs wrote: The default Locking is a problem that I will have to work around if I am going to use OTRS. It looks like I can simply set Automatic Unlocking to something low like 2 minutes. Locking is a key principle in any ticketing system I believe, and most people don't seem to

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
Please describe then the exact work flow in OTRS for this scenario: Agent A takes a telephone call, and records the support request as new ticket #42. Agent A continues to take telephone calls, and records new support requests as new tickets #43, #44, #45, #46. While Agent A is on a phone

[otrs] ticket subject on customer ZoomTicket interface

2007-11-27 Thread Tahar
Hi, I'm used Otrs v-2.0 on the customer interface when answering for support feedback the subject of the message was inserted automatically and contain the same one as the ticket subjet on its creation. While upgraded to version 2.2.3 the subject is always blank, I would to know how to do to

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kris Jacobs wrote: Please describe then the exact work flow in OTRS for this scenario: Agent A takes a telephone call, and records the support request as new ticket #42. Agent A continues to take telephone calls, and records new support requests as new tickets #43, #44, #45, #46. While

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
Hmmm... thank you Nils. I'm used to working in Incident Monitor at a previous employer: http://www.monitor24-7.com/corp/prod_im_overview.asp This concept of locking tickets seems very foreign and counter-intuitive to me. -Kris Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/2007 10:15

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kris Jacobs wrote: Hmmm... thank you Nils. I'm used to working in Incident Monitor at a previous employer: http://www.monitor24-7.com/corp/prod_im_overview.asp This concept of locking tickets seems very foreign and counter- intuitive to me. I am not familiar with Incident Monitor, but how

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Andy Lubel
Oh boy, here we go again... Locking tickets is important for the enterprise, where support may not all be in one place and there may be many agents. Its also good for beancounting how much effort you spend on each request. If you don't need ticket locking, just set up a shared mailbox in

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Andy Lubel
Smells like 1 man helpdesk? On 11/27/07 10:44 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Jacobs wrote: Hmmm... thank you Nils. I'm used to working in Incident Monitor at a previous employer: http://www.monitor24-7.com/corp/prod_im_overview.asp This concept of locking

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Hinkamp - BeSite
This concept of locking tickets seems very foreign and counter-intuitive to me. It's quite simple. See it as a pile of papers which need to be processed by multiple people. When you process one piece of paper you take it from the pile to your desk (lock it) and process it, maybe put some

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
So what do I do when someone in my department has a ticket locked, is out to lunch, and a user calls with more info or requests an update? I should be able to grab that ticket and run with the ball. Period. Andy Lubel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/2007 10:46 Oh boy, here we go again... Locking

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Steven Carr
In this situation you can either add a note to the ticket which is already locked by the agent, or if you want to deal with the call you can take ownership of the ticket and deal with it. It is confusing if you are not used to working this way, infact we weren't and ran with the automatic

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Hinkamp - BeSite
Smells like you're arrogant? Please be polite to people responding to your questions... I've worked in plenty of complex multi-user support request systems - I'm having trouble drawing parallels from them to OTRS though. You are not the first one to ask this question and most of the time

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
Smells like you're arrogant? I've worked in plenty of complex multi-user support request systems - I'm having trouble drawing parallels from them to OTRS though. Andy Lubel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/2007 10:46 Smells like 1 man helpdesk? On 11/27/07 10:44 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
Incident Monitor example: A support request is opened by Agent A. Agent A is the owning resource. Agent A does whatever to work the request - removes it from the HelpDesk Queue to his personal queue. He probably takes ownership and assignment of the request. In IM those are two separate

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
In 4 years of working with IncidentMonitor in an environment with 20+ users in it every day, I can't think of a time where two people were duplicating effort. I'm not sure if it was because of the request owning resource / request assigned resource characteristics or what - but having two

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Andy Lubel
It's just that we tend to revisit things that are asked pretty regularly! Go to sysconfig and enable the status view and I think you will see what power it gives within OTRS. We just talked about it I think 2 weeks ago. There is no software that exists today that meets (or conforms to) 100% of

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kris Jacobs wrote: Incident Monitor example: A support request is opened by Agent A. Agent A is the owning resource. Agent A does whatever to work the request - removes it from the HelpDesk Queue to his personal queue. He probably takes ownership and assignment of the request. In IM

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
Issues raised regularly are usually indications of real problems. ;) Andy Lubel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/2007 11:39 It's just that we tend to revisit things that are asked pretty regularly! Go to sysconfig and enable the status view and I think you will see what power it gives within OTRS.

Re: [otrs] RE: Time-Accountig

2007-11-27 Thread Torsten Thau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Agim Cami schrieb: Before installing Time accounting into my otrs platform I would like to know what are main features of the module. In what case this module can bee useful? The TimeAccounting module has nothing to do with the

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Andy Lubel
People only ask because they assume that their processes will just conform to OTRS and they don't have to change the way they work. Sometimes I think its harder to change human processes than it is changing a system process. If ticket locking is make/break for your project, then maybe OTRS isn't

[otrs] Escalation notification

2007-11-27 Thread Greg Evans
can't believe how much trouble i'm having sending notifications to agents when a ticket is escalated in his/her queue. I have no problem sending email notifications when they receive a new ticket, but I've spent countless hours configuring genericagent.pm... generic agent via the frontend..

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
unsubscribe Andy Lubel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/2007 12:22 People only ask because they assume that their processes will just conform to OTRS and they don't have to change the way they work. Sometimes I think its harder to change human processes than it is changing a system process. If ticket

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Adriano Amaral
Look the answer and the commentary he got from Andy.. I would probably do the same... but in privatly ... Richard Hinkamp - BeSite a écrit: Smells like you're arrogant? Please be polite to people responding to your questions... I've worked in plenty of complex multi-user support request

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Adriano Amaral
It's sad guys... A flaming war about a feature that he thought was usefull... The point on open source, is to be open to the opinions, and try to understand sometimes those who don't have the same vision as us. Instead of having another user that maybe would be an asset in the future, we give him

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread dvg
The only question I have is: If this other product suits his needs so well then why doesn't he just use it?! Dimitri -- Dimitrios Gerasimatos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Section 343 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Dr.Mail Stop 264-820, Pasadena, CA

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jacobs
The unsubscribe didn't work - I'll have to do it via the web page. Dimitri - that is none of your business. I was simply drawing a frame of reference using something I have a lot of experience with, in an effort to bridge what I felt was a gap in effective communication. Suffice it to say

[otrs] rpc-examlple.pl - Auth for user failed

2007-11-27 Thread mario
Hello List, i am trying to get the example script rpc-example.pl with OTRS 2.1 running. I change the variables $User and $Pw for my needs but get those errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# ./rpc-examlple.pl NOTICE: TicketObject-TicketCreateNumber() Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or

[otrs] Problem with $/ as given is currently unsupported at C:/OTRS/otrs/Kernel/cpan-lib/MIME/Decoder/QuotedPrint.pm line 153

2007-11-27 Thread Antonio Sarmiento
Hi, The system is giving this message, but I didn't modify MIME parameters nor QuotedPrint.pm I only modify Sendmail and pop3 parameters and autoreply message And now when I create a new phone ticket the system create de ticket and send this message: $/ as given is currently unsupported at

[otrs] How do I promote a ticket answer to faq?

2007-11-27 Thread DataForce CRM
Hi, I have my faq.pl page up. When an agent answers a queue item, how is the answer make a FAQ that will show on the faq.pl page. Regards, Jim Romano GM - 817-886-0380 - Skype: DataForceCRM http://www.dataforcecrm.com Visit site for Live Demos, Screenshots, Customer Support

Re: [otrs] Practical Examples... Locking?

2007-11-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kris Jacobs wrote: The unsubscribe didn't work - I'll have to do it via the web page. I believe you can send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing the word unsubscribe to the list will just post that message to the list. Or you can use

RE: [otrs] RE: Time-Accountig

2007-11-27 Thread Maurice James Ny
Are there any plans to merge the functionality with tickets? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Torsten Thau Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:16 PM To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.org Subject: Re: [otrs] RE: Time-Accountig

[otrs] Mapping freetext values for responses

2007-11-27 Thread Keith Bannister
Hi There, I'm trying to write a response template whose contents is defined by the data in the ticket free fields. In my config.pm I have $Self-{'TicketFreeText1'} = { '' = '-', 'HP141234' = 'Notebook Computer (HP)',

[otrs-de] Kategorieen zuweisen

2007-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hallo otrs-liste, wir würden gerne folgendens realisieren. Für jedes Ticket (auch für z.B. Antworten, Telefontickets usw. ) würden wir gerne eine Kategorie vergeben um anschließend eine Auswertung erstellen zu können, wieviele Tickets über einen bestimmten Zeitraum in einer Queue bearbeitet

AW: [otrs-de] Wiki statt FAQ

2007-11-27 Thread Alexander Kravets
Das ist eine sehr gute Idee, wir setzen bei uns das twiki.org ein und würden eine Mögliche Integration sehr begrüßen Mit freundlichen Grüßen Alex -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Christoph Stoettner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. November 2007 08:47 An:

Re: [otrs-de] Kategorieen zuweisen

2007-11-27 Thread Stefan Schwarz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hallo otrs-liste, wir würden gerne folgendens realisieren. Für jedes Ticket (auch für z.B. Antworten, Telefontickets usw. ) würden wir gerne eine Kategorie vergeben um anschließend eine Auswertung erstellen zu können, wieviele Tickets über einen bestimmten Zeitraum in

Re: [otrs-de] Kategorieen zuweisen

2007-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ja so ungefähr nur muss ich für jeden Vorgang eine extra Notitz anlegen, kann man es auch mit einbauen, so dass ich beim Erstellen oder z.B. beim Antworten gleich den Typ auswählen kann? Stefan Schwarz schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hallo otrs-liste, wir würden gerne folgendens

[otrs-de] winmail.dat problem

2007-11-27 Thread Kulcsar, Stefan
Hallo, wir haben ein kleines Problem mit E-Mails die an das otrs geschickt werden: Die Mails werden mit Outlook2002 im Rich Text Format (RTF) über Exchange2003 verschickt … das lässt sich auch leider nicht ändern … weil es eine globale Einstellung über Richtlinien von Exchange ist. das

Re: [otrs-de] Kategorien zuweisen

2007-11-27 Thread Stefan Schwarz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: ja so ungefähr nur muss ich für jeden Vorgang eine extra Notitz anlegen, kann man es auch mit einbauen, so dass ich beim Erstellen oder z.B. beim Antworten gleich den Typ auswählen kann? Stefan Schwarz schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hallo otrs-liste, wir

Re: [otrs-de] Kategorien zuweisen

2007-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alles klar... DANKE für die Info Stefan Schwarz schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: ja so ungefähr nur muss ich für jeden Vorgang eine extra Notitz anlegen, kann man es auch mit einbauen, so dass ich beim Erstellen oder z.B. beim Antworten gleich den Typ auswählen kann? Stefan Schwarz

Re: [otrs-de] winmail.dat problem

2007-11-27 Thread Christoph Stoettner
Hi, die winmail.dat Dateien kenne ich zwar nicht aus OTRS, aber sie kamen mir schon öfters bei Apple Mail und Lotus Notes zwischen die Finger. Ursache ist hier Outlook, da das RTF-Format auch Teile des Anhangs anpackt. Einzige Möglichkeit ist meines Wissens, daß man im Outlook hinterlegt, daß