Automatically dispatch tickets to teams when entering a state.
Allow to dispatch automatically Ticket based on predefined Dispatch rules
, to a team and trigger a transition.
Each time a Ticket enter a state, iTop searched for Dispatch rules
which apply to this class and state. If it finds one,
then it uses each Team rules
in order to retrieve a team. The Ticket is assigned to the first team found and Ticket is moved to a different state.
If no team is found, the Ticket is left unchanged.
Example: when a Ticket is created, it is automatically dispatched to the team with role 'Support level1' defined on the customer Delivery Model, and moved to status 'Dispatch'.
This extension allows to define:
And any combination of those.
Date | Version | Description |
---|---|---|
2020-03-06 | 1.0.9 | * Upddate DE translations |
2019-06-16 | 1.0.8 | * When team rules return no team and ticket is not dispatched, don't log success in ticket's log * When a stimulus is not applicable, log the error and pursue the object's operation * Fix inactive target rules being used for matching * Fix a bug when creating coverage window within a dispatch rule |
2019-03-19 | 1.0.7 | Fix dispatch rule not working for Tickets created by a user with silos |
2019-01-17 | 1.0.6 | Add Combodo license |
2018-12-07 | 1.0.4 | Update translations |
2018-06-26 | 1.0.3 | Fix english translation |
2017-10-27 | 1.0.2 | Added German translation. (thanks to ITOMIG GmbH) |
2017-09-26 | 1.0.0 | First official version. |
This extension is executed after combodo-approval-light or combodo-approval-extended, therefore if an Approval rule changes the object's state, Dispatch rules that should have been applied on the previous state will not be computed.
Dispatch rules must be defined on each final class, not on abstract class. This extension is not designed to set a team without changing the state.
Use the Standard installation process for this extension.
There is no parameter defined in the iTop configuration file.
This extension does nothing out of the box, until you have created Dispatch rules
to express when a Ticket should automatically assigned to a team and which team to use.
A dispatch rule
is defined for one Class of Ticket. It must contain at least one Team rule
and one State rule
.
First create a new Dispatch rule by opening the corresponding menu under Service Management.
Name | Mandatory | Description |
---|---|---|
Name | Mandatory | A name describing the dispatch rule |
Class | Mandatory | Ticket class the rule will apply to |
Team attribute | Mandatory | Attribute code of the Ticket Class that will be set by the matching Team rule |
Explain log attribute | Optional | Attribute code of the Ticket Class that will be set with a text explaining how a Team rule matched |
Disabled contexts | Optional | A CSV list of context tags in which the Dispatch rule will be inactive. Typically a portal (“GUI:Portal”), cron tab (“CRON”), a rest/json call (“REST/JSON”), … |
A State rule
defines the state in which you want to auto-assign a team, and which transition must be applied if a team was found.
Create at least one State rule in the States tab.
Name | Mandatory | Description |
---|---|---|
State code | Mandatory | Code of the Ticket state. Entering this state will trigger the Dispatch rule |
Stimulus code | Mandatory | Code of the Stimulus that will be applied if a team is found |
A Team rule
defines how to retrieve the team to assign.
Create at least one Team rule in the corresponding tab.
Name | Mandatory | Description |
---|---|---|
Name | Mandatory | Free name of the rule, for humans. |
OQL | Mandatory | Query which must return Team objects |
Coverage window | Optional | The Team rule will be used only if we are within the Coverage window |
Rank | Mandatory | Order for using the Team rules, lowest number first. |
Active | Mandatory | Allow to prepare Team rules, without activating them. Rules with 'No' will not be used. |
Remember that, there is a filter on Ticket.team_id:
SELECT Team AS t JOIN lnkDeliveryModelToContact AS l1 ON l1.contact_id=t.id JOIN DeliveryModel AS dm ON l1.deliverymodel_id=dm.id JOIN Organization AS o ON o.deliverymodel_id=dm.id WHERE o.id = :this->org_id
Default Team
In beta version of auto-dispatch, iTop assigned a team using this logic
SELECT Team AS t JOIN lnkDeliveryModelToContact AS l1 ON l1.contact_id=t.id JOIN ContactType AS ct ON l1.role_id=ct.id JOIN DeliveryModel AS dm ON l1.deliverymodel_id = dm.id JOIN Organization AS o ON o.deliverymodel_id=dm.id WHERE o.id=:this->org_id AND ct.name='Support level1'
Assigning a team based on Service
You may want to define a support team per Service,
in which case, the easiest is to link the applicable team to each Service and ensure that always one and one only team is linked to each service.
SELECT Team AS t JOIN lnkContactToService AS l1 ON l1.contact_id=t.id JOIN Service AS s ON l1.service_id=s.id WHERE s.id=:this->service_id
The best would be to add a new attribute support_team_id
on Service, as an ExternalKey to a Team.
You may want to use the team defined on the Service when there is one, otherwise use the default team defined on the delivery model of the customer. In which case you will create 2 Team rules, one based on Service with the lowest rank and the other using the OQL above.
In some case you want to disable the Auto-assignment mechanism. For example, it is quite common that you want to Auto-Dispatch tickets created by users through the Portal, Ticket creation from Email, but do not want to do it, when the ticket is created by a synchro, a script or maybe an agent in the console.
That's the purpose of the Disabled contexts field.
It is even possible to disable a Dispatch rule just for one particular Portal or a particular DataSynchro. The syntax to use is:
Portal:<portal-id>
where <portal-id>
is the portal id defined in the XMLSynchro:<synchro-name>
where <synchro-name>
is the name of that particular DatasynchroExamples: Let's say you have created a special portal for your agents and you want Tickets created through that portal not to be auto-dispatched.
<portals> <portal id="agent-portal" _delta="define"> ...
Then to disable the Dispatch rule, set Disabled contexts = Portal:agent-portal
.