[rt-users] Updating Ticket Status via PostgreSQL

[Aaron W. Swenson]

On 2015-12-01 15:58, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> I believe you can do this all in RT.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Aaron W. Swenson
> <aaron at grandmasfridge.org> wrote:
>> I'm sure this has been answered by someone somewhere, but my Google-fu 
>> is
>> not helping me.
>> 
>> I have a few hundred tickets in a production system that I want to 
>> change
>> the status with some criteria a bit more sophisticated than RT 
>> (4.2.12) is
>> allowing me to do.
>> 
>> The SQL I want to issue is:
>> 
>>     UPDATE tickets
>>        SET status = 'noresponse'
>>      WHERE status = 'open' AND told < '2015-11-01'
>>        AND told > lastupdated;
>> 
>> The last condition is the one I can't enter in RT.
> 
> In your RT web interface, go to: Search -> Tickets -> New Search.
> 
> The key here is knowing that "Last Contacted" is really "Told", or so I 
> believe.
> 
> From a grep in the source directory:
> 
> share/html/Elements/SelectDateType:<option value="Told"><&|/l&>Last
> Contacted</&></option>
> 
> Once you get your search results, you can bulk update the status 
> change.

What I'm getting at is that RT won't let me compare told to last updated 
through that interface.

I can check that told was before a certain date and that last updated 
was before a certain date, but I can't check for told being older or 
newer than last updated.

>> Effectively, update the status of all tickets that are still open to
>> "noresponse", where the last update was us sending the requester an 
>> email.
>> 
>> Is this safe?
> 
> Nope. Don't perform update/insert/delete queries directly on the
> database. There are things like effective ticket id that your query
> doesn't handle. Scrips and things wouldn't fire either.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -m

Is there a way to feed ticket IDs or something to rt-crontool?