Michael,<br><br>Sorry for the delay. Went on vacation and when I got back I had a list of a zillion things to do and they were all emergencies. Like "which rush job do you want me to rush ahead of which rush job?" kind of thing.<br>
<br>Anyway, attached is the perl program that we had written (I sure couldn't do it. I'm a perl dummy. Just ask Kevin or Ruslan) to convert a flat file (from a legacy DB ticket system) into the RT system. Obviously, you will have different fields, etc. but the logic should be helpful. Weused the RT API to get the records into RT.<br>
<br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Kenn<br>LBNL<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Jason Ledford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jledford@biltmore.com">jledford@biltmore.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">What database access do you have to those older tickets and what type of database is it? Mine was a homebrew asp app with access db. I created a page in asp that queried the db and wrote the page to look like the offline tool. So I turned off all email notification and then ran through about 15000 tickets in the offline tool. I broke it up in 5000 chunks. I would be happy to share what I created if it is helpful.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com" target="_blank">rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com" target="_blank">rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Steen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:12 PM</span></p><div class="im"><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com" target="_blank">rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com</a><br></div><b>Subject:</b> [rt-users] Convert Other Ticketing System DB to RT?<u></u><u></u><p>
</p><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">All,<br><br>I am wondering if anyone has successfully converted a database from another ticketing system to RT. I found a thread from 2008 about OTRS (<a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rt/users/81165" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rt/users/81165</a>) in which Jesse said that most people abandon their former ticketing systems to start fresh with RT. <br>
<br>In my case, I have about 1200 tickets that I would like to save currently living in a Support Center ticketing system by Quality Unit. If anyone has had success in converting a DB, and/or if there is any existing documentation I haven't found, please let me know. Also, if anyone has met with failure attempting to do something like this, I would appreciate your feedback, as well. I'd like to avoid wasted effort if it's not worth it in the long run.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Mike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><br><br>
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