Re: Template snippet causes template to silently fail

Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm still seeing the same exact problem. If
I put the code in, the email based on this template fails to send. The log,
however, remains absent any error or warning messages around the time of
each attempt I make. I'll paste my latest try below, but note that I've
tried $Transaction in place of $self->TransactionObj and gotten the same
result.


<p>Content:
{
my $transactionType = $self->TransactionObj->Type;
if ($transactionType eq 'Correspond') { $self->TransactionObj->Correspond
} elsif ($transactionType eq 'Comment') { $self->TransactionObj->Comment
} else { "No content to display."
}
}
<br>
</p>


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Landon Stewart <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Oct 26, 2016, at 2:29 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
> The way our company uses RT, there's no need to distinguish between
> comments and replies, and users may use either one without realizing the
> difference. In my new email template, I want to show whichever was set. My
> template works fine without the two if statements I'm trying to use, but as
> soon as I put them in, it fails. The odd thing is that, though the email
> using the template is never sent, I don't get any errors at all. When I was
> missing a dollar sign earlier, I got an error--an error not really related
> to the dollar sign, but an error. Now, though, I get nothing whatsoever.
> Here's the snippet:
>
> { if (my $transactionCorrespond = $Transaction->correspond) {
> $transactionCorrespond
> } elsif (my $transactionComment = $Transaction->comment) {
> $transactionComment }
> }
>
> I don't know what's so wrong with that bit of code, but there must be
> something. I don't really speak Perl, and the only page I've found thus far
> that enumerates the Transaction object properties isn't overly helpful, so
> I'm guessing at the properties I need. Can anyone see what I've done wrong
> here? Thanks.
>
>
> Since $Transaction is a thing then $Transaction->correspond is empty since
> it's not a thing.  This is why you'll get no errors.
>
> Try this:
> {
>   if ($self->TransactionObj->Type eq 'Correspond') {
>     # something
>   } elsif ($self->TransactionObj->Type eq 'Comment') {
>     # something else
>   } else {
>     # Not a Comment or Correspond transaction
>   }
> }
>
> Or something that actually does exactly what your pseudocode does:
> { $self->TransactionObj->Type }
>
> I have found these very helpful in the past:
> https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/CustomConditionSnippets
>
> --
> Landon Stewart
> Lead Analyst - Abuse and Security Management
> INTERNAP ®
> 📧 [email protected]
> 🌍 www.internap.com
>
>


-- 
Alex Hall
Automatic Distributors, IT department
[email protected]

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