While working for a school district that ran a windows shop I decided to branch out and use Request Tracker for support tickets. The software allowed us to handle issue more efficently, however, it had a major drawback in that someone would need to manually assign tickets that came in to the proper queue. Since each school building had its own tech(s) we gave each building a queue and then made that buildings tech(s) masters of those queues. The manual labor of assigning tickets was definitely an issue.

By default Request Tracker’s LDAP integration will just download the data from LDAP when a user is created and that’s about it. We needed it to use LDAP info when a ticket is being created to map it to the proper queue. To do this we needed to use a Scrip (yes, without the t). Scrips are RT’s answer to exentsionability, sadly written in Perl.

Alas, I decided to tackle this challenge with the following Scrip.

Final Code#

Configuration#

You’ll need to add a Scrip by going to Tools -> Configuration -> Global -> Scrips -> Create and fill out the form with the following information:

Now save and you should be all set.

Note: This has only been tested on 4.0 <= RT version <= 4.0.13.