[rt-users] Ticket will not accept comments or replys

[John Arends]

RT 3.8 seems to handle HTML a lot better, as the issue we were having 
went away after updating. The update to 3.8.2 from 3.6.5 had been 
planning for several months, so we went ahead and were pleasantly 
surprised that the update resolved the problem.

We did a little more troubleshooting, and it looks like some character 
that was inserted as part of chat sessions with Dell was causing the 
problem. I couldn't find the character to figure out what it was, but in 
any event, the problem does not occur in newer versions of RT.

John Arends wrote:
> I did some poking around in the database and couldn't find anything 
> obvious, but what you suggest is my theory. It's probably something in 
> the Attachments table since there isn't a whole lot of data stored in 
> the Transactions table as best as I can tell.
>
> I looked at the HTML of the page (view source in FireFox) and nothing 
> jumps out at me as incorrectly rendered. The page is not cut off halfway 
> or anything. The footer, and other parts of the page are rendered fine. 
> It just loses the ability to display any new transactions.
>
> Raed El-Hames wrote:
>   
>> Whats in the database for this ticket (Transactions and Attachments 
>> tables), it maybe an ugly character in an early attachment stopping the 
>> history of being displayed??
>>
>> Regards;
>> Roy
>>
>>
>>
>> John Arends wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> We found a single ticket where comments/replies are not getting appended 
>>> to the ticket, but they get sent out via email just fine.
>>>
>>> This is not a permissions issue as other tickets in the same queue are 
>>> fine, plus the comments/replies get emailed out correctly. Just nothing 
>>> further happens to this one ticket.
>>>
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John Arends <jarends at illinois.edu>
Network Analyst
College of ACES - ITCS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign