RT::Action::LinearEscalate(3) NAME RT::Action::LinearEscalate DESCRIPTION LinearEscalate is a ScripAction which is NOT intended to be called per transaction. It's intended to be called by an RT escalation tool. One such tool is called rt-crontool and is located in $RTHOME/bin (see "rt-crontool -h" for more details) This ScripAction will move a ticket's priority from its initial prior- ity to its final priority linearly as the ticket approaches its due date. This ScripAction uses RT's internal Ticket::_Set call to set ticket priority without running scrips or recording a transaction on each update. To install this package: # perl Makefile.PL # make install Once the ScripAction is installed, the following script in "cron" will get tickets to where they need to be: rt-crontool --search RT::Search::FromSQL --search-arg \ "(Status='new' OR Status='open' OR Status = 'stalled')" \ --action RT::Action::LinearEscalate LinearEscalate's behavior can be controlled by two configuration options set in RT_SiteConfig.pm -- LinearEscalate_RecordTransaction, which defaults to false and causes the tool to create a transaction on the ticket when it is escalated, and LinearEscalate_UpdateLastUpdated, which defaults to true and updates the LastUpdated field when the ticket is escalated. You cannot set LinearEscalate_UpdateLastUpdated to false unless LinearEscalate_RecordTransaction is also false. (Well, you can, but we'll just ignore you.) perl v5.8.7 2006-04-20 RT::Action::LinearEscalate(3)