[rt-users] Faking {$Transaction->Content()}

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Kenneth Crocker <kfcrocker at lbl.gov> wrote:
> Mauricio,
>
> What is it you want to do? It sounds like you want to put the last
> correspondence of a ticket into an email/template when the owner of a ticket
> is changed. Is that right? Technically, there WAS a transaction record
> created, but since it only involved an owner change, that's the only info on
> the transaction record.
>
> If this is what you want to do, it CAN be done fairly easily with a scrip.
> What you want to do is pull up the last comment transaction entered for that
> ticket. You can do that IN a template.
>
      Well, this what I want do do:

If ticket owner changed
   Send the last correspondence of a ticket into an email/template (as
correspondence) to the new ticket owner.

When I mean last correspondence I do want to include every attachment
(.zip files, jpg, etc)  it came with (like what you would get by
having RT-Attach-Message: yes), not only the textual content (which is
what you would get by doing $Transaction->Content).

>From what I understand, $Transaction->Content (and RT-Attach-Message:
yes) need the last Transaction to be a correspondence type to do their
magic. But since the transaction associated with owner changing does
not generate a correspondence, I cannot use them as they are. Well, as
you pointed out, getting the text part of the last correspondence and
creating a correspondence with that as the content is, quite easy. The
non-text attachments are causing me problems.

In my test script I grabbed only the transactions in that ticket with
correspondence in them and am able to see which attachments the last
correspondence had. That really does not do me any good but at least
made me feel happy that I was able to find the attachments. :)

> Hope this helps.
>
> Kenn
> LBNL
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>      From what I understand (thanks trs), in an on Owner Change event
>> you cannot rely on using {$Transaction->Content()} to copy the last
>> message/correspondence in a given ticket because no transaction was
>> created. So, how can you fake it in an template? If the content was
>> only a text file, it is not hard to do it, but what happens when you
>> also have attachments? I wrote the following template,
>>
>> {
>>   my $thingie = "Attachments:";
>>   my $Transactions = $Ticket->Transactions;
>>
>>   $Transactions->Limit( FIELD => 'Type',
>>                           VALUE => "Correspond"
>>                         );
>>   # $Rt::Logger->debug("Find Transaction");
>>   my $TransactionObj = $Transactions->Last;
>>      my $AttachmentsObj =
>> RT::Attachments->new($TransactionObj->CurrentUser);
>>      $AttachmentsObj->Limit( FIELD => 'TransactionID',
>>                              VALUE => $TransactionObj->id
>>                            );
>>      while ( my $a = $AttachmentsObj->Next ) {
>>         $thingie .= "\nFound an attachment with encoding " .
>> $a->ContentType . " and ID " . $a->id;
>>         if ( $a->ContentType eq 'text/plain' || $a->ContentType eq
>> 'text/html'){
>>            $thingie .= "\nContent:\n" . $a->Content;
>>         }
>>         elseif ( $a->ContentType eq 'multipart/mixed') {
>>         }
>>         else {
>>            $thingie .= "\n" . $RT::WebURL ."/Ticket/Attachment/".
>> $a->TransactionId ."/". $a->id ."/". $a->Filename;
>>            $thingie .= "\n    ";
>>         }
>>      }
>>   $thingie;
>> }
>>
>> which finds the attachments and put links for the non-text (from
>> http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/AddAttachmentLinksToMail)
>> attachments, but what I really want is, well, emulate
>> {$Transaction->Content()}. Would anyone have any pointers?
>>
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