New Response Alert for All Department Members in osTicket v1.6 RC5

This following modification is being intended to answer the question about the similar modification that asking about the title of this article. You may enable or disable this feature from admin panel. If you want your osTicket also send an alert to all department members when new response that being sent by staff comes to the system, then this following modification is for you!

1. First of all, you have to alter the ost_config table by adding a new field named note_alert_dept_members. You may use this SQL script from phpMyAdmin or your another MySQL tool. Please note that ost_ is the table name prefix. Adjust it by yourself in case it differs with yours:

   ALTER TABLE ost_config 
   ADD COLUMN `note_alert_dept_members` tinyint(1) default 0 NOT NULL;

2. Open your \include\staff\preference.inc.php file, and find this code:

   435	<input type="checkbox" name="note_alert_dept_manager" <?=$config['note_alert_dept_manager']?'checked':''?>> Department Manager (spammy)

   then after the last line of that code, please insert this following code:

   436	<input type="checkbox" name="note_alert_dept_members" <?=$config['note_alert_dept_members']?'checked':''?>> Department Members (spammy)

3. Open your \include\class.config.php file, and find this code:

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   function alertDeptManagerONNewNote() { return $this->config['note_alert_dept_manager']?true:false; }

   then after the last line of that code, please insert this following code:

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   // MOD Alert Dept Members on New Note, added by Masino Sinaga, November 14, 2009 function alertDeptMembersONNewNote() { return $this->config['note_alert_dept_members']?true:false; }

   Find again this code:

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   if($var['note_alert_active'] && (!isset($var['note_alert_laststaff']) && !isset($var['note_alert_assigned']) && !isset($var['note_alert_dept_manager']))){

   then replace with this following code:

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   if($var['note_alert_active'] && (!isset($var['note_alert_laststaff']) && !isset($var['note_alert_assigned']) && !isset($var['note_alert_dept_manager']) && !isset($var['note_alert_dept_members']))){ // added by Masino Sinaga, Nov 14, 2009

   Find again this code:

   536	',note_alert_dept_manager='.db_input(isset($var['note_alert_dept_manager'])?1:0).

   then replace with this following code:

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   ',note_alert_dept_manager='.db_input(isset($var['note_alert_dept_manager'])?1:0). ',note_alert_dept_members='.db_input(isset($var['note_alert_dept_members'])?1:0). // added by Masino Sinaga, Nov 14, 2009

4. Open your \include\class.ticket.php file, and find this code:

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   //Dept manager if($cfg->alertDeptManagerONNewNote() && $dept) $recipients[]=$dept->getManager();

   then after the last line of that code, please insert this following code:

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   //Dept members, added by Masino Sinaga, Nov 14, 2009 if($cfg->alertDeptMembersONNewNote() && $dept) { $sql='SELECT staff_id FROM '.STAFF_TABLE.' WHERE onvacation=0 AND dept_id='.db_input($dept->getId()); if(($users=db_query($sql)) && db_num_rows($users)) { while(list($id)=db_fetch_row($users)) $recipients[]= new Staff($id); } }

That’s all. Hope it helps you.