[Rt-devel] Advice sought on RT plugin development.

Ruslan Zakirov ruz at bestpractical.com
Tue Nov 30 15:49:49 EST 2010


This totally sounds like new type(s) of saved objects along with saved
searches, graphs and charts. These three can be saved with some
preferences and then added to home page and/or dashboard.

I think you should re-use this area.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Todd Chapman <todd at chaka.net> wrote:
> Ruslan,
> By dynamic I mean that an arbitrary number of portlets would be created
> based on RT configuration. The number of portlets is determined at runtime,
> not install. The portlets would be created with a dhandler.
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Ruslan Zakirov <ruz at bestpractical.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know what you mean by dynamic, but I see it this way. Your
>> extension puts a portlet into default "RT at Glance", you also mention
>> this portlet in docs. That's it.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Todd Chapman <todd at chaka.net> wrote:
>> > Fellow RT Devs,
>> > I'm working on an RT plugin and running into some implementation
>> > challenges.
>> > 1. I'd like to dynamically add some components to the "RT at a glance"
>> > preferences pane, but don't see any callbacks to do so.
>> > 2. Even if I could do 1. above, or just manually edit the
>> > RT_SiteConfig.pm
>> > file, my components don't really exist. I would like to generate their
>> > output dynamically from a dhandler, but /Elements/MyRT uses $m->comp,
>> > which
>> > doesn't activate dhandlers.
>> > Can anyone think of solutions to these problems? Clearly I could submit
>> > a
>> > patch to add support in core RT for this but thought someone might
>> > suggest
>> > another solution.
>> > Thanks!
>> > -Todd
>> >
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards, Ruslan.
>
>



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