[rt-users] Trouble with API

[Jason A. Smith]

Hi Kenn,

We have a script that sometimes creates tickets in RT using the perl
API, by doing something like:


# If we have an RT user's name or email address:
#  - Of course this user must have 'CreateTicket' rights.
my $CurrentUser = RT::CurrentUser->new;
$CurrentUser->LoadByName('RTName');  # Or use: LoadByEmail('EmailAddr');

# Otherwise we just have the ticket created by the RT system User:
my $UserObj = RT::User->new($RT::SystemUser);
my $CurrentUser = $UserObj->CurrentUser;

# First create a MIME Object to put the ticket text into:
my $MIMEObj = MIME::Entity->build(From    => 'from',
                                  Subject => 'subject',
                                  Data    => 'message text',
                                 );

# Then create the ticket, where the %ARGS hash contains all the ticket
# data, like: Queue, Owner, Requestor, Subject & MIMEObj:
my $Ticket = RT::Ticket->new($CurrentUser);
my ($Id, $Transaction, $ErrStr) = $Ticket->Create(%ARGS);

# To make extra replies or comments to the ticket, just do things like:
$Ticket->Correspond(MIMEObj => $MIMEObj);
$Ticket->Comment(MIMEObj => $MIMEObj);


~Jason


On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:56 -0800, Kenneth Crocker wrote:
> To All,
> 
> 
> 	We are trying to run perl program using API. It won't let us create any 
> tickets. We keep getting an error saying we don't have privileges to 
> create tickets in the queue we are trying this on.
> 	First question, when using API, what user are we signed in on? 
> RT_System? If so, how do we get that user privileges for creating 
> tickets in a queue? Can we access that User? We can't seem to find any 
> documentation on this part. Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> 
> P.S. Hopefully, when we get this running, we'll have a conversion 
> program to share that will allow you to read a legacy DB and write your 
> records into RT.
> 
> 
> Kenn
> LBNL
> 
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