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#19630 New Ticket "Cancel Ticket" button

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Latest post by kiwi on Wednesday, 19 March 2014 13:06 CDT

kiwi
Hello Akeeba Team,

In addition to the above Custom fields I have also searched google using the prefix:

site:akeebabackup.com cancel ticket button

I am using your Akeeba Ticket System package on a development site to get familiar with your package - seems great so far.

What I do not see, nor on your own site Support area, is that when a user selects the New Ticket button, the page opens up as configured / expected.

At the bottom is a button: Send your Ticket.

What I would be interested in knowing is if you propose to add (or if I have missed the facility to add this already), another button to the effect of: "Cancel", or "Cancel Ticket" ?

This then being able to be "configured" to take the user to a "Ticket Cancelled" message page.

I have also gone through all your previous Akeeba Ticket System Release notes to see if any such feature has been there but got removed at any stage - I did not see any indication that this (Cancel Button Removal) has been the case - but am open to correction.

Your thoughts appreciated.

Regards,

Tim.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
We have decided not to add such a button... because people get confused. When we had such a button on our site –before writing Akeeba Ticket System– people would click on it instead of the Send your Ticket and then send us very frustrated emails. In order to prevent this kind of mishaps we decided not to implement such a button in Akeeba ticket System. After all, cancelling the ticket creation is dead easy: just navigate to any other page. Most people will instinctively press the back button on their browser to cancel what they are doing, therefore making a cancel button on the page redundant.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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kiwi
Hello Nicholas,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes - you are right - using the browser back button is what I was doing (navigating to another page does it as well).

I figured there was (is) possibly a good reason why a Cancel (or similar) button may not be there - you mostly confirmed my suspicions. Your experiences with this feature give good reason for not having it.

You can close this ticket if you wish.

Regards,

Tim.

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