[rt-users] Creating Ticket Externally in RT2

[Jesse]

If I were you, I'd have the ASP script do a post to a custom web-create page 
and read back the result.....it's better not to let things other than RT get the db in a possibly inconsitent state.


On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:37:35AM -0400, David C. Troy wrote:
> 
> Yeah, well, pretty directly... Basically I want to create a ticket from an
> ASP script talking to MySQL over MyODBC... yeah, I know, the horror.. :)
> 
> I kind of want to know from the database what ticket number I get
> assigned, etc...  getting perl involved on the Win platform gets way too
> silly.  I figured if I could write to the tables directly that would be
> easiest.
> 
> I'm thinking Tickets and Transactions will work as a minimal, barebones
> new ticket -- I control the content and it's just piddly text messages, so
> there's not a lot of variability there...  Seem OK?
> 
> Dave
> 
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> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jesse wrote:
> 
> > How directly do you mean? You really really really want to at least use
> > RT's API to do it ($Ticket->Create).
> >
> > Failing that, you need to insert things into at least most of the following tables:
> >
> >         Tickets
> >         Transactions
> >         Attachments
> >         Watchers
> >         ObjectKeywords
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:59:15AM -0400, David C. Troy wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey All --
> > >
> > > We do some wacky things with RT where we'd like to be able to create a
> > > ticket directly in the RT2 database, rather than through e-mail, CLI, or
> > > web interfaces.
> > >
> > > Yeah yeah -- I know it's not 'supported' or the 'right way' to do it, and
> > > I don't use 'deodorant,' etc....
> > >
> > > What tables do we need to insert into?  I'm thinking Tickets and
> > > Transactions ought to do it;  any others?  Are there any special gotchas
> > > on field contents in those tables?
> > >
> > > Any info appreciated.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
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