Reminder

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This extension adds the capability to create and manage reminders for any kind of tickets.

The extension allows agents to create a reminder for a ticket (user request, incident…) when the ticket is in a specific status (assigned…). The reminder is defined by a target date (default choice) or a delay. When a delay is set, the reminder can be recurrent or not.

At expiration time, an event can be applied to the ticket and a notification can be sent. The reminder is then closed or restarted if it is a recurrent one.

The type of tickets where reminders can be applied, the list of status where reminders are available and the event that may be applied when the reminder expires are defined in iTop's configuration file. See Configuration chapter below.

The agent has the possibility to cancel a running reminder by stopping the reminder stopwatch. This is an action available in the Reminder menus.

The agent can, as well, reset a running reminder. For that purpose, he just needs to redo the action ‘Create reminder’ from the same ticket where the reminder has been created (assuming that the ticket is in a state where reminder creation is allowed). This will stop the running reminder and will create a new one.

Reminders can only be applied to class of objects that derive from ticket. They cannot be set for items of the CMDB.

The extension requires iTop 2.2.0, at least, and the extension iTop object copier 1.1.3.

Use the Standard installation process for this extension.

The extension will add the following section in the configuration file:

  'itop-reminder' => array (
                'allowed_classes' => array (
                  'UserRequest' => array (
                    'status' => array (
                      0 => 'assigned',
                    ),
                    'stimulus' => '',
                  ),
                ),
        ),

This section allows you to define iTop's behaviour when a reminder expires. For each class of tickets listed, you may define:

• status: the list of status where a stimulus will be applied when the reminder expires,
• stimulus: the stimulus that will be applied at that time.

Next to its specific section, the extension is adding, at installation time, an entry to the list of rules defined for the itop-object-copier extension. Here is defined for which class of ticket and within what status reminders can be triggered.

            array (
                    'source_scope' => 'SELECT UserRequest WHERE status IN (\'assigned\')',
                    'allowed_profiles' => 'Support Agent,Administrator',
                    'menu_label' => 'Create a reminder...',
                    'menu_label/FR FR' => 'Créer un rappel...',
                    'form_label' => 'Create a reminder from %1$s',
                    'form_label/FR FR' => 'Créer un rappel depuis %1$s',
                    'report_label' => 'Created from %1$s',
                    'report_label/FR FR' => 'Créé depuis %1$s',
                    'dest_class' => 'Reminder',
                    'preset' => 
                    array (
                      0 => 'copy(id,ticket_id)',
                    ),
                    'retrofit' => 
                    array (
                      0 => 'copy(id,active_reminder_id)',
                    ),
                  ),

php webservice/cron.php --auth_user=user --auth_pwd=password --status_only=1

From the “Other Actions” menu available for your ticket, select “Create a reminder…”. The following form is displayed:

A reminder has the following attributes:

By default, the reminder extension adds attributes to the class Ticket and manages them. These attributes can the be reused and displayed within the classes where reminders are available (User Requests, Changes…)

A trigger on threshold can be defined to generate an event when a reminder expires. Parameters to be used are :

• Target class : Reminder
• Stop watch : reminder_sw
• Threshold : 100

This chapter provides an add-on example on how to use Reminders with User Requests. It is available as an XML file that can be added to your datamodel.

What this add-on does is:

• Create a new status : Reminded,
• Allows events ev_assign, ev_dispatch, ev_timeout and ev_autoresolve to be applied from that status,
• Makes sure that TTO and TTR run while tickets are in the Reminded state,
• Adds a new event called 'ev_remind' that can be applied when in the Assigned, Dispatched, Redispatched and Escallated TTR status,
• Adds a field reminders_list to User Requests that list all the reminders that have been launched for that User request (if you want it to be dispayed as a tab, you need to add it to the presentation),
• Adds the menu 'My reminders' that lists the active reminders of tickets managed by the agent currently connected.

You may download the add-on to use it 'out of the box' or to customize it to match your needs : datamodel.itop-reminder.userrequest-example.xml