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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kyle,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for the reply. If possible would you be willing to share what you have? This will be something I’ve never attempted so need all the help I can get.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks again,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kenny<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Kyle Dippery [mailto:kyle.dippery@uky.edu]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 14, 2016 8:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Seever, Kenny <Kenny.Seever@mgpingredients.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [rt-users] Unique custom fields for assets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Kenny,<br>
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I haven't looked at RT 4.4 yet, so perhaps it's built in there, but it wasn't in RT 4.2.<br>
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What you will need to do, if it isn't there already, is create your own extension to the Asset.pm module, call it Asset_Local.pm, and add code there to check for uniqueness and auto-populate the field. The Create {} subroutine is the one you'll most likely
want to override.<br>
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One gotcha that I remember (I did this about a year ago) is that I needed to know the number of the custom field; I couldn't figure out how to search the $args{} array for the field by name. That being our most critical custom field, though, it made sense
to create it first so it would be "CustomField-1".<br>
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I'm reluctant to post my actual code, because it's crappy and I don't want to release bad code into the wild, but if you'd like to see it I can sanitize it some and share it.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Kyle<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 03/11/2016 11:38 AM, Seever, Kenny wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am working on evaluating using the Assets module in RT to manage our equipment, but haven’t been able to figure out if there is a way to make a field unique. All of our equipment has a 5 digit asset number (2XXXX) that is unique. I
need to be able to add a field that makes sure that each number is only used once. Ideally it would auto populate with the next number when a new asset is added, but that may be asking for too much. Is there build in functionality for any of this that I’ve
missed in the documentation?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kenny<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Kyle Dippery<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Engineering Computing Services<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>219 RMB<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>859-257-1346<o:p></o:p></pre>
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