[rt-users] Report for Tickets Resolved "Last Month"

[Ole Craig]

    I needed something similar for "<day of week> before last" so that I
could say "show me all tickets where ("resolved > Sunday before last"
and "resolved < last Sunday") to get at tickets resolved last week,
regardless of what day I ran the search. (My Mondays are not generally
conducive to quiet reflection on the previous week's activity. :-)

    I ended up hacking the necessary into Time::ParseDate, which is what
RT uses to parse out "natural language" dates. It was actually a pretty
simple change; the diff was about 15 lines. Dave Sharnoff (the package
author) was kind enough to accept a patch at some point so it's now part
of the stock Time::ParseDate. 

    Perhaps you could look at doing something similar: adding semantics
for "this month", "last month", and "next month" to return a date entity
corresponding to 00:00:01 on the 1st of the appropriate month?


	Cheers,
		Ole

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 18:30 -0600, Samuel P. Howard wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I know that RT can use some natural language description of dates, but I 
> haven't found any combination that seems to work to give me a report of 
> all tickets resolved "last month".
> 
> Ideally, it would be last month, the whole month, not 30 days ago (or 
> else, we could really only run the report on 1 day of the month and get 
> the report we need).
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sam
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