[rt-users] Help with scrip example

[Paul]

This isn't quite what your asking for, but solves the same problem:

http://code.google.com/p/rt-references/

Cheers,
Paul

On 01/31/2011 02:31 PM, Edwards, James wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I'm hoping someone can point me in a direction.
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> I'm trying to write a custom scrip that takes emails sent in reply to an RT ticket and merges it into an existing RT ticket.  The existing ticket is in a queue.  The issue I'm trying to overcome is that when the reply message comes back to RT the subject line is modified to where [tickets.xyz.com #<ticket number>] has been stripped from the subject line and replaced entirely with a new subject line.  This then creates a second new ticket.
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> My thought process around what I want to accomplish,
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> 1)      When the reply comes in, the scrip search the content for [tickets.xyz.com #<ticket number].  I have seen in the reply message that the content contains the ticket number.
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> 2)      The scrip searches the queue for an existing ticket with a matching number to <ticket number> in the reply
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> 3)      Merge the tickets
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> 4)      Send a reply to all requestors in the existing RT ticket.
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> I haven't been able to find good documentation on how to write scrip's. (Like a scrip 101 guide).  I'm working off examples of scrip's from the contributor's section of the Best practical Wiki, but having troubles.
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