Hello, thanks for the information how to add customer related infos to a ticket. It works fine! But now I experienced a problem with special characters (Umlauten) in the subject. If a customer uses such characters in the subject field and than he/she answers to an reply, the answers is not attached to the existing case, a new case is opened instead. Any hints? By Ralph -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Martin Edenhofer [mailto:martin@edenhofer.de] Gesendet: Montag, 23. September 2002 16:33 An: otrs@otrs.org Betreff: Re: [otrs] Customer ID and name Hi Ralph, On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Ralph M?ller wrote:

exactly that information I was searching for. Now things became clearer to me. By the way, would it be possible to use the X-OTRS Headers to pass arbitrary customer related data to the system, for example phone-number and so on. If yes, what is to do to see these information in the ticket-view?

You can do this with "X-OTRS-TicketKey", "X-OTRS-TicketValue", "X-OTRS-ArticleKey" and "X-OTRS-ArticleValue". X-OTRS-Ticket -=> Tags to a ticket. Maybe contract id, contract name, product name, product-code, ... X-OTRS-Article -=> Tags to an article. Maybe infos about the sender, used mail agent, ... How? -=> http://lists.otrs.org/pipermail/otrs/2002-September/000261.html Of course you have to write your own procmail rules to generate your X-OTRS-TicketKey1 and X-OTRS-TicketValue1 headers. And your own cmd programs to do some lookups in an external database. IMO I would use an html link for customer infos like phone-number, fax-number, address... I mean, set just the CustomerID (via procmail, external lookup and X-OTRS-CustomerNo) and add an html link (Kernel/Output/HTML/Standard/TicketView.dtl and Kernel/Output/HTML/Standard/TicketZoom.dtl) to an external html-customer-db frontend. So you have always the current address of your customer.

By Ralph

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