Adding department using Department function

[Thijs]

Hi,

I'm figuring out the best way to add a department not using the form in the admin panel.

I want to use the includes/functions_departments.php file for this and want to read out the last order number first.

I was thinking about setting the order number column on autoincrement because I actually don't care about how they are ordered.

But, when I need to do, I first need to grab that one and I was not able to fnd out the best way.

Ok, we have a function for adding the department:

function insertDepartment($title, $departmentmodule, $tgroupidlist, $type = "1", $displayorder = "1", $isdefault = false)

So I can actually call this like:

insertDepartment(name, tickets, {dunno yet}, public, {?? display order ??}, 0);

This should be working if you ask me in a normal PHP file.

Because we have the function getLastDepartmentDisplayOrder() to check the latest order number, shall I just set this one to:

$orderno = function getLastDepartmentDisplayOrder();

and place $orderno in the line above ?

Some advise would be nice

Thanks.

[Thijs]

OK, so far so good.

There are some relation tables that I need to set also, but it all seems to be doable.

Something I don't get so far is when I add a new templategroup and want to import a template into that one, also the registry table is updated.

What is the usage of that table ?