Fwd: Re: [rt-users] Additional field in User details

[John Gedeon]

Turns out that after I restarted the rt system the call to 
$self->_Value(dbfield) worked.
John

>At 03:53 PM 1/13/2003, you wrote:
>>Can anyone offer some help as to how this is done?
>>
>>>Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:07:23 -0800
>>>
>>>I found that in my function Order I can call $self->__Value(dbfield) and 
>>>get almost any data. I can show the name email creator user id etc but 
>>>it returns null for my Order field. If i login in to the database i can 
>>>see that the field is not null what else do I need to change?
>>>
>>>Previous changes.
>>>John
>>>
>>>>At 08:56 AM 1/10/2003, you wrote:
>>>>>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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>>>>>
>>>>>
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