In our configuration, we have a queue per customer. Our customers have
a contracted monthly retainer for a number of hours per month. I would
like to track the number of hours that a customer per queue and then
modify our interfaces to show how much of that retainer has been used
for the present month. Our support team would use this to determine
whether or not the incoming request was likely to put a customer over
their contracted hours.<br>
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What I would like to do is associate with a queue the total hours on
the retainer for a month. I would then subtract the worked value from
each transaction during a given month to determine how much time has
been used on that retainer.<br>
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The challenge I've run into is that there doesn't seem to be a way to
add an attribute or characteristic to a queue. In other words, when you
add custom fields to a queue, it is really adding custom fields to the
tickets in that queue, not adding the custom fields to the queue object
itself.<br>
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FWIW, we also have a group for each customer (in addition to the queue)
and the group name and queue name do match so if we needed to, we could
store the retainer hours number in a group custom field. However, the
object assocation between a group and a ticket transaction seems much
more complex which is why I'm looking for a way to put the information
on the queue itself.<br>
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I would love some suggestions on directions to explore on how to get this accomplished.<br>
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Thank You,<br>
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Jason<br>