begginers question - what ticket locking is?

Hello, I'm begginer in otrs, moving from request tracker. I have problems with concept of locking tickets - what it is for? how typical workflow with locking should be? It seems that locked tickets "disappears" from queue and only person who locked it can see it. It's not what I need (or I think it's not :) - I want all agents see all tickets, and especially bosses of agnet to see what's going on with all tickets. Cheers --- Grzegorz Marszałek graf0@post.pl

Hi Grzegorz, To put it as simply as possible (and now I interpret it) locking ticket implies that whoever locked it is taking ownership of that issue and is therefore working on it. This helps prevents multiple agents working on the same ticket and consequently wasted time. All environments are different but for mine we have three agents, a typical situation is that a user e-mail support@ourcompany.com which generates a ticket, and we decide who should take responsibility of that particular ticket by deciding who's area of responsibility it is. If you wish to view all tickets (regardless of the type of lock) then go to Core::Ticket in sysconfig, locate Ticket::ViewableLocks, and add 'lock' into the list. Regards, David Grzegorz Marszałek wrote:
Hello,
I'm begginer in otrs, moving from request tracker. I have problems with concept of locking tickets - what it is for? how typical workflow with locking should be?
It seems that locked tickets "disappears" from queue and only person who locked it can see it. It's not what I need (or I think it's not :) - I want all agents see all tickets, and especially bosses of agnet to see what's going on with all tickets.
Cheers --- Grzegorz Marszałek graf0@post.pl
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You can also try to use "status view" button enabling it in Ticket ->
Frontend::Agent::ModuleRegistration
Frontend::Module###AgentTicketStatusView:
2009/9/14 David Holder
Hi Grzegorz,
To put it as simply as possible (and now I interpret it) locking ticket implies that whoever locked it is taking ownership of that issue and is therefore working on it. This helps prevents multiple agents working on the same ticket and consequently wasted time.
All environments are different but for mine we have three agents, a typical situation is that a user e-mail support@ourcompany.com which generates a ticket, and we decide who should take responsibility of that particular ticket by deciding who's area of responsibility it is.
If you wish to view all tickets (regardless of the type of lock) then go to Core::Ticket in sysconfig, locate Ticket::ViewableLocks, and add 'lock' into the list.
Regards,
David
Grzegorz Marszałek wrote:
Hello,
I'm begginer in otrs, moving from request tracker. I have problems with concept of locking tickets - what it is for? how typical workflow with locking should be?
It seems that locked tickets "disappears" from queue and only person who locked it can see it. It's not what I need (or I think it's not :) - I want all agents see all tickets, and especially bosses of agnet to see what's going on with all tickets.
Cheers --- Grzegorz Marszałek graf0@post.pl
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I find the locking of ticket very annoying, is there a way to make so no ticket is locked or have them auto unlock after an amount of time passes? In my environment I have a very small group of users and locking is getting in the way. Regards, Varian On Sep 14, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Marco Vannini wrote:
You can also try to use "status view" button enabling it in Ticket -
Frontend::Agent::ModuleRegistration Frontend::Module###AgentTicketStatusView:
2009/9/14 David Holder
Hi Grzegorz, To put it as simply as possible (and now I interpret it) locking ticket implies that whoever locked it is taking ownership of that issue and is therefore working on it. This helps prevents multiple agents working on the same ticket and consequently wasted time.
All environments are different but for mine we have three agents, a typical situation is that a user e-mail support@ourcompany.com which generates a ticket, and we decide who should take responsibility of that particular ticket by deciding who's area of responsibility it is.
If you wish to view all tickets (regardless of the type of lock) then go to Core::Ticket in sysconfig, locate Ticket::ViewableLocks, and add 'lock' into the list.
Regards,
David
Grzegorz Marszałek wrote: Hello,
I'm begginer in otrs, moving from request tracker. I have problems with concept of locking tickets - what it is for? how typical workflow with locking should be?
It seems that locked tickets "disappears" from queue and only person who locked it can see it. It's not what I need (or I think it's not :) - I want all agents see all tickets, and especially bosses of agnet to see what's going on with all tickets.
Cheers --- Grzegorz Marszałek graf0@post.pl
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Sure, you can try
Unlock timeout:
*(0 = no unlock - 24 hours = 1440 minutes - Only business hours are
counted.)*
*
*
in the queue settings but you have to be sure that otrs service (in rc.d) is
running because of unlock cron job should be scheduled.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Varian Hebert
I find the locking of ticket very annoying, is there a way to make so no ticket is locked or have them auto unlock after an amount of time passes? In my environment I have a very small group of users and locking is getting in the way.
Regards, Varian
On Sep 14, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Marco Vannini wrote:
You can also try to use "status view" button enabling it in Ticket -> Frontend::Agent::ModuleRegistration Frontend::Module###AgentTicketStatusView:
2009/9/14 David Holder
Hi Grzegorz,
To put it as simply as possible (and now I interpret it) locking ticket implies that whoever locked it is taking ownership of that issue and is therefore working on it. This helps prevents multiple agents working on the same ticket and consequently wasted time.
All environments are different but for mine we have three agents, a typical situation is that a user e-mail support@ourcompany.com which generates a ticket, and we decide who should take responsibility of that particular ticket by deciding who's area of responsibility it is.
If you wish to view all tickets (regardless of the type of lock) then go to Core::Ticket in sysconfig, locate Ticket::ViewableLocks, and add 'lock' into the list.
Regards,
David
Grzegorz Marszałek wrote:
Hello,
I'm begginer in otrs, moving from request tracker. I have problems with concept of locking tickets - what it is for? how typical workflow with locking should be?
It seems that locked tickets "disappears" from queue and only person who locked it can see it. It's not what I need (or I think it's not :) - I want all agents see all tickets, and especially bosses of agnet to see what's going on with all tickets.
Cheers --- Grzegorz Marszałek graf0@post.pl
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David Holder
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Grzegorz Marszałek
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Marco Vannini
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Varian Hebert