[rt-users] Additional field in User details

[John Gedeon]

I too have been working at getting this exact thing to work as well. I 
managed to do all the stuff same as Sean and am stuck with a similar 
problem. I cannot seem to figure out how to access the column that is in 
the database. I added a function to User.pm that was called Order (thats 
the name of my field that I wish to add) and have it return a default 
value, that fixes the error from mason that I got, however I cant seem to 
get the data into or out of the db.

Any help is welcomed.
John

At 04:12 PM 10/2/2002, you wrote:
>Hiya,
>
>I've run into a problem I can't seem to resolve. I would appreciate any
>help anyone can offer. I'm running RT 2.0.13.
>
>I'm looking to add an additional field to the Users table to keep track of
>the names of the employees that are using that username. It might sound
>obscure, but it's pretty important to the scheme I'm working with.
>
>---
>
>So, I added a row for it in the database like this:
>
>mysql> alter table Users add Employees blob;
>mysql> insert into Users (Employees) VALUES(NULL);
>
>---
>
>Next, I opened up User.pm and added a corresponding entry for "Employees":
>vi /usr/local/rt/lib/RT/User.pm
>
>   my %Cols = (
>               # {{{ Core RT info
>               Name => 'public/read/write/admin',
>               Password => 'write',
>               Comments => 'read/write/admin',
>               Employees => 'read/write/admin',
>---
>
>Next, I added this statement to Admin/Users/Modify.html to display the
>Employees field.
>
><TEXTAREA name="Employees" COLS=80 ROWS=5
>WRAP=VIRTUAL><%$UserObj->Employees%></TEXTAREA>
>
>and at the bottom:
>
>$Employees=> undef
></%ARGS>
>
>---
>
>But I got the following error on that page:
>
>Mason error
>
>component stack:   /Admin/Users/Modify.html [standard]
>/autohandler [standard]
>
>code
>stack:   /usr/local/rt/WebRT/data/obj/STANDARD/Admin/Users/Modify.html:332
>/usr/local/rt/WebRT/data/obj/STANDARD/autohandler:69
>
>
>misc info:   error while executing /Admin/Users/Modify.html [standard]:
>
>---
>
>As a side note, I was able to replace the "Employees" with a previously
>created, but unused value. For instance - I replaced it with Creator
>(which was a valid field, but isn't usually displayed at all on
>Modify.html) and it worked fine.
>
>By the way, here's autohandler:69
>
>68    else {
>69        $m->call_next;
>70    }
>
>
>---
>
>I would appreciate any help on this issue. It has me greatly befuddled.
>
>Thanks.
>Sean Byron
>
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