[rt-users] attachment improvements

[Ruslan Zakirov]

2012/1/21 BÁLINT Bekény <balint.bekeny at docca.hu>:
> Hi list,

Hello,

>
> I've made some attachment improvements in our company's RT 3.8 in the last
> few years.
> If you are interested in it I can try to create 4.0 compatible Plugins for
> these features (now I could only send patches for 3.8.x files).
>
> 1. Attachment forward: previously attached files are listed on Update.html
> and you can check them to attach to the outgoing mail. (I don't understand
> why this kind of feature isn't in vanilla RT. Everybody downloads and then
> reuploads attachments if he or she wants to send it to an email address?).

I think in cages we have something like this. It's ok as Plugin and good plugin.

> 2. Unique attachment session: RT temporary stores attachments
> in $session{'Attachments'} and deletes this on Display.html, Update.html,
> Create.html, ModifyAll.html and Bulk.html. The problem is that if you start
> a comment, attach a file and you open a ticket or start another comment,
> etc.in another browser window or tab, your uploaded attachment will be
> deleted from session. So later when you submit your comment there won't be
> your previously attached file. This is annoying for a lot of users that's
> why I create unique session variable in every related page to store the
> attachments.
> Note: I think it is impossible to implement this with Callbacks only. It
> needs patching or overlaying some files.

This is implemented in the repo and aimed at 4.2.

> 3. Multiple attach: there are flash solutions for multi-attach file but I
> don't like flash. Fortunately in HTML5 you can create <input type="file">
> with multiple attribute. Modern browsers support it and allow users to
> select more than one file at once. I implement this feature on Update,
> Create and ModifyAll pages. Users like this more than I previously supposed
> and it was only a 20 minute work to implement. :)
> Note: this will be another reason for IE users to change their browser :)

What happens with browsers that don't support this feature? If those
don't have problems and just allow users to upload one file then we
can consider this for core. Do you care to send a patch against master
branch? Note that because of above change (2), code around attachments
upload is different, but actually it's better as we concentrated it in
one place.

> 4. Attachment coloring and ordering: you can define categories in SiteConfig
> and also colors for these categories. On Display page you can set category
> for every file with one click. Files get the color of their categories. You
> can also order attachments list by category (color), filename, creator, size
> and date. There is a predefined category "hidden". With this you can hide an
> attachment.
> It's not my favorite improvement but this is very useful for companies work
> on long projects with lot of files.

Sounds like useful @Plugin.

If you need new callbacks for any code then you can send patches.

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> Bekeny
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Best regards, Ruslan.