[rt-users] Odd behavior, RT automatically reverts changes to Custom Fields

[Tim Cutts]

On 14 Jun 2012, at 14:48, Matthew W. wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm relatively new to RT and have been running into this problem for a
> few days now.  I've looked everywhere and haven't found a clue.  The
> closest thing I could find was documented in this post:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com/msg10037.html
> 
> But, I really don't want to to undo the changes that RT automatically
> undoes....
> 
> Basically, whenever I make changes to a custom field from a scrip
> whatever the value that I add automatically gets reverted back to the
> old value.  I tried adding code to delete the old value first, but RT
> just adds the old value back.
> 
> 
> Here's some psuedocode (code not tested and may contain typos, but my
> code works just fine as I can see the transactions in the ticket
> history):
> 
> my $Value = 'some value';
> 
> my $CFName = 'customCF';
> my $CF->LoadByName( Name => $CFName);
> 
> #Delete the old value:
> $self->TicketObj>DeleteCustomFieldValue(
>     Field => $CFName,
>     Value => $self->TicketObj->FirstCustomFieldValue($CFName)
> );
> 
> #Set the new value:
> $self->TicketObj->AddCustomFieldValue( Field => $CF, Value => $Value);
> 
> Bottom line: does anyone know how to prevent RT from undoing the
> additions to a custom field?  This is in RT 4.0.4.

Is this a TransactionCreate/TransactionBatch stage issue?

Tim


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