[Rt-devel] Making the Requestor field a selection field?

[Todd Chapman]

Looking in CreateTicket sub of /opt/rt3/lib/RT/Interface/Web.pm

-Todd

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:07:21PM -0400, Matt Hanley wrote:
> When creating a new ticket, I wanted to be able to have the Requestors field
> be a drop down list of currently existing users (this made things simple and
> allowed for the real name to be displayed while the email address still gets
> used).  I managed to do this easily by modifying Ticket/Create.html and
> adding a file, mwh.html:
> 
> --- /opt/rt3/share/html/Ticket/Create.html      2004-07-12
> 14:00:53.000000000 -0400
> +++ ./Create.html  2004-10-07 13:49:41.000000000 -0400
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
>  <&|/l&>Requestors</&>:
>  </TD>
>  <TD class=value COLSPAN=5>
> -<INPUT Name="Requestors" Value="<% ($ARGS{Requestors}) ||
> $session{CurrentUser}->EmailAddress %>" SIZE=40>
> +<& /Ticket/mwh.html &>
>  </TD>
>  </TR>
>  <TR>
> 
> mwh.html:
> 
> <SELECT NAME="Requestors">
> %while ( my $u = $Users->Next() ) {
> %  if ( $u->RealName() ne"" ) {
> <OPTION VALUE="<%$u->EmailAddress()%>"><%$u->RealName()%></OPTION>
> %  }
> %}
> </SELECT>
>  
> <%INIT>
> my $Users = RT::Users->new($session{CurrentUser});
> </%INIT>
> 
> 
> However, I realized that this didn't leave the option for selecting multiple
> Requestors.  No problem, I thought, I'll just add the "multiple" option to
> the "SELECT" tag.  Now, however, the Requestor turns into
> "ARRAY(0xa282c38)".  I understand what that value is, but I'm not finding
> where this is being processed.  If someone could at the very least point me
> there, that'd be great.  If someone has the solution, even better. :-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -matt
> 
> Matthew Hanley
> mhanley at cxtec.com
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