[rt-users] Keywords thought...

Steven W. Litras swl at cdsinc.com
Fri Oct 12 13:54:11 EDT 2001


Thanks Jesse - is there documentation available on that interface? I
couldn't find any on the docs site.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse at bestpractical.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:07 PM
To: Steven W. Litras
Cc: rt-users at lists.fsck.com
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Keywords thought...


You might want to use the RT linking interface with "RefersTo" links
and some custom UI, rather than trying to warp the Keyowrds system like
that.
you can define custom handlers to display and lookup the
csdinc.com-customers:
URI scheme


On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:07:25PM -1000, Steven W. Litras wrote:
> Hi All-
>
>     I'm somewhat new to RT. I've been playing around with it for a few
> weeks, and I'm planning to implement it both for internal ticket tracking,
> and customer ticket tracking. In order to be able to search a ticket based
> on a customer, I've set up Customer name Keywords for the customer queue.
> First off - if anyone sees a better way to do this, lemme know.
>
> Secondly, we have an internal database of Customers that I don't really
> wanna duplicate, so I was thinking about seeing if an external callback
> feature could be added into the Keywords capability to allow it to hand
off
> Keyword look up, based on where it is in the tree, to an external script.
> For example, if I'm doing a lookup based on the /Customers keyword
> hierarchy, it subs it out to my script, but all other keywords go through
> the normal method. Anybody out there already done this? If people think it
> would be useful, I'd be willing to take a stab at it...
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>



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