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__active__ including stalled tickets?
Hey all,
I just did a search:
Priority > 9 and Status = '__active__'
Five of the resulting tickets are stalled, but I thought __active__ ignored
stalled tickets. Any idea why they're appearing? Did I miss a setting or
something, or is this intended behavior? Thanks.
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Alex Hall
Automatic Distributors, IT department
ahall@autodist.com
Re: __active__ including stalled tickets? [ In reply to ]
__Active__ is case sensitive, I believe.

-m

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Alex Hall <ahall@autodist.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
> I just did a search:
> Priority > 9 and Status = '__active__'
> Five of the resulting tickets are stalled, but I thought __active__ ignored
> stalled tickets. Any idea why they're appearing? Did I miss a setting or
> something, or is this intended behavior? Thanks.
> --
> Alex Hall
> Automatic Distributors, IT department
> ahall@autodist.com
Re: __active__ including stalled tickets? [ In reply to ]
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> wrote:

> __Active__ is case sensitive, I believe.
>
I should have said that I tried capital and lowercase A in my searches,
along with making the word all caps. I keep getting the same result.


> -m
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Alex Hall <ahall@autodist.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > I just did a search:
> > Priority > 9 and Status = '__active__'
> > Five of the resulting tickets are stalled, but I thought __active__
> ignored
> > stalled tickets. Any idea why they're appearing? Did I miss a setting or
> > something, or is this intended behavior? Thanks.
> > --
> > Alex Hall
> > Automatic Distributors, IT department
> > ahall@autodist.com
>



--
Alex Hall
Automatic Distributors, IT department
ahall@autodist.com
Re: __active__ including stalled tickets? [ In reply to ]
> On Jan 5, 2017, at 10:56, Alex Hall <ahall@autodist.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,

Hi Alex,

> I just did a search:
> Priority > 9 and Status = '__active__'
> Five of the resulting tickets are stalled, but I thought __active__ ignored stalled tickets. Any idea why they're appearing? Did I miss a setting or something, or is this intended behavior? Thanks.

In RT's default lifecycle, stalled is an active status, because it indicates there is more work to be done before the ticket can be resolved.

> --
> Alex Hall
> Automatic Distributors, IT department
> ahall@autodist.com <mailto:ahall@autodist.com>

Best,
Shawn
Re: __active__ including stalled tickets? [ In reply to ]
...and I see that Shawn has answered, too. Here is what I had to say:

"stalled" is an active status. I know the word feels "inactive", but
according to the default lifecycle, it is active.

https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/blob/stable/etc/RT_Config.pm.in#L3034

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Alex Hall <ahall@autodist.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> wrote:
>>
>> __Active__ is case sensitive, I believe.
>
> I should have said that I tried capital and lowercase A in my searches,
> along with making the word all caps. I keep getting the same result.
>
>>
>> -m
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Alex Hall <ahall@autodist.com> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> > I just did a search:
>> > Priority > 9 and Status = '__active__'
>> > Five of the resulting tickets are stalled, but I thought __active__
>> > ignored
>> > stalled tickets. Any idea why they're appearing? Did I miss a setting or
>> > something, or is this intended behavior? Thanks.
>> > --
>> > Alex Hall
>> > Automatic Distributors, IT department
>> > ahall@autodist.com
>
>
>
>
> --
> Alex Hall
> Automatic Distributors, IT department
> ahall@autodist.com
Re: __active__ including stalled tickets? [ In reply to ]
Okay, I can see that. I was thinking of active/inactive as now, as in a
stalled ticket is inactive until someone un-stalls it. But from RT's
perspective, it does make sense that a ticket not deleted or resolved is
still, in some way, active. I'll have to adjust my crontool script too, or
people will get warnings about stalled tickets when I promised they
wouldn't. Glad I checked!

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> wrote:

> ...and I see that Shawn has answered, too. Here is what I had to say:
>
> "stalled" is an active status. I know the word feels "inactive", but
> according to the default lifecycle, it is active.
>
> https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/blob/stable/etc/RT_Config.pm.in#L3034
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Alex Hall <ahall@autodist.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> __Active__ is case sensitive, I believe.
> >
> > I should have said that I tried capital and lowercase A in my searches,
> > along with making the word all caps. I keep getting the same result.
> >
> >>
> >> -m
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Alex Hall <ahall@autodist.com> wrote:
> >> > Hey all,
> >> > I just did a search:
> >> > Priority > 9 and Status = '__active__'
> >> > Five of the resulting tickets are stalled, but I thought __active__
> >> > ignored
> >> > stalled tickets. Any idea why they're appearing? Did I miss a setting
> or
> >> > something, or is this intended behavior? Thanks.
> >> > --
> >> > Alex Hall
> >> > Automatic Distributors, IT department
> >> > ahall@autodist.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alex Hall
> > Automatic Distributors, IT department
> > ahall@autodist.com
>



--
Alex Hall
Automatic Distributors, IT department
ahall@autodist.com
Re: __active__ including stalled tickets? [ In reply to ]
On 05/01/17 11:12 AM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> ...and I see that Shawn has answered, too. Here is what I had to say:
>
> "stalled" is an active status. I know the word feels "inactive", but
> according to the default lifecycle, it is active.
>
> https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/blob/stable/etc/RT_Config.pm.in#L3034
An active status is one where you expect it to change: new, open, stalled.
An in-active status is one where you don't, i.e. a "final resting
state": rejected, resolved, deleted.

Jeff