Notification Module

Notification modules are used to display a notification below the main navigation. You can write and register your own notification module. There are currently 5 ticket menus in the OTOBO framework.

• AgentOnline
• AgentTicketEscalation
• CharsetCheck
• CustomerOnline
• UIDCheck

Notification Module Code Example

The notification modules are located under Kernel/Output/HTML/TicketNotification*.pm. Following, there is an example of a notify module. Save it under Kernel/Output/HTML/TicketNotificationCustom.pm. You just need 2 functions: new() and Run().

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package Kernel::Output::HTML::NotificationCustom;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Kernel::System::Custom;

sub new {
    my ( $Type, %Param ) = @_;

    # allocate new hash for object
    my $Self = {};
    bless( $Self, $Type );

    # get needed objects
    for my $Object (qw(ConfigObject LogObject DBObject LayoutObject TimeObject UserID)) {
        $Self->{$Object} = $Param{$Object} || die "Got no $Object!";
    }
    $Self->{CustomObject} = Kernel::System::Custom->new(%Param);
    return $Self;
}

sub Run {
    my ( $Self, %Param ) = @_;

    # get session info
    my %CustomParam      = ();
    my @Customs    = $Self->{CustomObject}->GetAllCustomIDs();
    my $IdleMinutes = $Param{Config}->{IdleMinutes} || 60 * 2;
    for (@Customs) {
        my %Data = $Self->{CustomObject}->GetCustomIDData( CustomID => $_, );
        if (
            $Self->{UserID} ne $Data{UserID}
            && $Data{UserType} eq 'User'
            && $Data{UserLastRequest}
            && $Data{UserLastRequest} + ( $IdleMinutes * 60 ) > $Self->{TimeObject}->SystemTime()
            && $Data{UserFirstname}
            && $Data{UserLastname}
            )
        {
            $CustomParam{ $Data{UserID} } = "$Data{UserFirstname} $Data{UserLastname}";
            if ( $Param{Config}->{ShowEmail} ) {
                $CustomParam{ $Data{UserID} } .= " ($Data{UserEmail})";
            }
        }
    }
    for ( sort { $CustomParam{$a} cmp $CustomParam{$b} } keys %CustomParam ) {
        if ( $Param{Message} ) {
            $Param{Message} .= ', ';
        }
        $Param{Message} .= "$CustomParam{$_}";
    }
    if ( $Param{Message} ) {
        return $Self->{LayoutObject}->Notify( Info => 'Custom Message: %s", "' . $Param{Message} );
    }
    else {
        return '';
    }
}

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Notification Module Configuration Example

There is the need to activate your custom notification module. This can be done using the XML configuration below. There may be additional parameters in the config hash for your notification module.

<ConfigItem Name="Frontend::NotifyModule###3-Custom" Required="0" Valid="0">
    <Description Translatable="1">Module to show custom message in the agent interface.</Description>
    <Group>Framework</Group>
    <SubGroup>Frontend::Agent::ModuleNotify</SubGroup>
    <Setting>
        <Hash>
            <Item Key="Module">Kernel::Output::HTML::NotificationCustom</Item>
            <Item Key="Key1">1</Item>
            <Item Key="Key2">2</Item>
        </Hash>
    </Setting>
</ConfigItem>

Notification Module Use Case Example

Useful ticket menu implementation could be a link to an external tool if parameters (e.g. FreeTextField) have been set.