How to Create 3 New Permissions (Can Post Reply, Can Post Internal Notes, and Can Assign Tickets) into osTicket 1.6 ST

osTicket does very good job to restrict the certain permissions to the staff by implementing the User Groups feature. There are seven permissions that have been provided in the User Groups. They are: Can Create Tickets, Can Edit Tickets, Can Close Tickets, Can Transfer Tickets, Can Delete Tickets, Can Ban Emails, and Can Manage Premade. [...]

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How to Implement Simple Time Spent by Staff on Ticket in osTicket 1.6 ST

After a few months not involved in osTicket discussion forum, today I saw some requests asking about how to implement the simple time spent on a ticket in osTicket 1.6 ST (stable version) as good as it has been implemented in osTicket 1.6 RC5. Since the author of that mod is busy nowadays and he [...]

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Auto Staff Time Sheet in Editing Ticket of osTicket v1.6 RC5

This following modification is the continuation of another modification that I created in the article: Add Auto Staff Time Sheet Feature into osTicket v1.6 RC5. Since I received the feedback from osTicket Discussion Forum that informed me about the SQL error after editing a ticket by staff, then I found that the original one need [...]

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Closed Ticket Alert for All Department Members in osTicket v1.6 ST (Stable)

It does make sense when a ticket is closed by your customer or client, then all department members will be automatically notified by your ticketing system via email. I made the modification to implement this requirement into osTicket v1.6 ST (Stable), including the related setting in order to enable or disable this feature, just in [...]

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Giving Permission to Specified Staff to Add New Staff Based on Current Department in osTicket v1.6 RC5

This article will show you how to modify your osTicket System in order to give the ability for the certain staff to add new staff record based on his/her department. As we know, only staff which has Admin account type can do this, since there are only two account type in osTicket up to v1.6 [...]

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Add Time Spent at the Bottom of Each Staff’s Page of osTicket v1.6 RC5

For those of you who have implemented the modification I made about: Add Auto Staff Time Sheet Feature into osTicket v1.6 RC5, then this following modification is for you. It has the relationship with that modification above. After you implemented the previous one, and then if you wanted to display the time spent of each [...]

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Only The Assignee Staff or Admin Can Close and Reopen Ticket in osTicket v1.6 RC5

This following modification will add a small feature to limit the ability for staff to close the opened ticket or to reopen the closed ticket in osTicket v1.6 RC5. Only the assignee staff or admin can close and reopen the ticket. It means that if the current ticket has not been assigned to any staff, [...]

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Displaying Help Topic Based on Selected Department in New Ticket Form at Client Side of osTicket v1.6 RC5

One of the advantages of osTicket after comparing to another ticketing system is the ability to clasify the tickets based on its department and its help topic. For those of you who implement osTicket for such company which has several departments, which is each department has several help topics, you need to filter the related [...]

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Displaying the Staff Name in the Reply Email of osTicket v1.6 RC5

This modification will display the staff name in the reply email that sent by the current staff. As default, osTicket have not included the %staff variable in the reply or response email template. So here is the modification to implement it.

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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 [...]

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