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Kacper 0b06687ea1 v1.1.2
- Real-time updates (Laravel Reverb): live operator queue, live ticket
  chat/detail updates for operator and client, periodic fallback refresh
  with a visible countdown as a backstop for dropped websocket connections.
- SLA automation rules (Admin > Automatyzacja SLA): act on a ticket after
  N minutes of customer silence (change priority/status/team/assignee),
  evaluated every 15 minutes, reusing TicketService's own setters so
  automated changes get the same history/notification/broadcast a manual
  change would.
- New notification: every operator on a matching team gets notified when
  a new ticket lands in one of their subcategories.
- BookStack knowledge-base sidebar now also shown on the client's own
  ticket view (previously operator-only); suggestions everywhere now load
  in after first paint instead of blocking it.
- Client ticket view: shows assigned operator + team; page widened to
  match the operator's.
- Notification bell shows unread only; read notifications disappear
  instead of just dimming.
- Stats dashboard: sectioned layout, new breakdowns (by subcategory, CSAT
  by team/operator, top clients, client x subcategory cross-tab).
- Mobile: nav dropdowns (theme/notifications/profile) now expand full
  width instead of overflowing off-screen below 640px.
- Fixed two bugs that silently disabled all real-time updates (missing
  CSRF header on Echo's private-channel auth; a script-load-order race
  that could miss the livewire:init event) and the mariadb healthcheck
  (world-writable credentials file on this stack's NFS mount).
- Assorted test-suite fixes (roles virtual attribute needs the roles
  table seeded; a few missing seeds/wrong assertions found along the way).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 20:43:05 +02:00

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# Architecture
Server-rendered Laravel + Livewire app (no SPA/API-driven frontend for the app
itself — the REST API in `routes/api.php` exists purely for external
integrations). See [README.md](README.md) for the feature list and tech stack;
this doc covers how the pieces fit together.
## Request flow
1. `routes/web.php` gates every area behind `auth` + a role middleware
(`role:client`, `role:operator`, `role:admin``App\Http\Middleware\EnsureRole`),
which checks the role against `$user->roles`. A user can hold multiple roles at
once; the router just requires *one* of the listed roles per route group.
2. Each route resolves to a full-page Livewire component under
`app/Livewire/{Client,Operator,Admin,Auth}/` — there are no traditional
controllers rendering Blade views for these areas (the REST API in
`routes/api.php` is the exception, backed by `app/Http/Controllers/Api/`).
3. Livewire components call into `app/Services/TicketService.php` for anything
that mutates ticket state (create/transition/reply/notify) rather than
mutating models directly — keep that convention when adding new mutations so
notification/history/SLA side effects stay in one place.
4. `App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::boot()` runs a settings override pass on
every request (`applyLdapSettingsOverride`, `applyMailSettingsOverride`,
`applySessionSettingsOverride`, `applyTimezoneSettingsOverride`) — see
"Settings override" below.
## Data model
Core tables/models (`app/Models/`):
```
Category ─< Subcategory ─< CustomField (per-subcategory custom fields)
└──< Ticket >── Team (subcategory routes to a team)
├──< TicketMessage (public replies + internal notes)
├──< TicketAttachment
├──< TicketHistory
├── customer/assignee → User
├── status → Status (fixed stages: new/open/closed)
├── priority → Priority → SlaRule (response/resolution minutes)
└── csat_rating/csat_comment/csat_rated_at (nullable — set once, on close)
User ─< UserFieldValue >─ UserField
User ─< SavedQueueView (operator's own saved queue filter/sort/column presets)
User ─< notifications (Laravel's database channel — polymorphic, morph-mapped as 'user')
ApiClient (Sanctum token owner, ability-scoped)
Setting (single-row-per-key config store, see below)
ReplyQuickAction, ResponseTemplate, EmailTemplate, NotificationSetting
```
`tickets.subject`/`tickets.body` and `ticket_messages.body` carry a MySQL/MariaDB
`FULLTEXT` index (added in a later migration, MySQL-only — absent on the sqlite
connection the test suite runs on) — `Ticket::scopeSearch()` uses
`whereFullText()` when the active connection is `mysql` and falls back to a
portable `LIKE` otherwise, so the same call site works in both places.
`Ticket` (`app/Models/Ticket.php`) is the largest model — it owns SLA math
(`slaInfo()`, `isOverdue()`, `resolutionDeadline()`), status/priority display
helpers (`statusLabel()`, `tagStyleFromColor()`), operator-visibility scoping
(`scopeVisibleToOperator`, `isVisibleToOperator` — a team member sees their team's
queue + unassigned + anything assigned to them, an admin sees everything), and
work-timer tracking (`timerElapsedSeconds()`). Keep ticket-shaped logic here
rather than spreading it across Livewire components.
## Roles & permissions
`$user->roles` reads/writes as a plain array (`['client', 'operator']`), but
it's a **virtual attribute** (`User::getAttribute()`/`setAttribute()`
overrides) backed by a real `roles` lookup table + `role_user` pivot, not an
actual column — assigning `'roles' => [...]` on create/update stashes the keys
until the model's `saved` hook resolves them against `roles.key` and syncs the
pivot. This matters for tests/seeders: a role key must exist in the `roles`
table *before* it can be assigned this way, or the assignment silently becomes
a no-op (`Tests\TestCase::setUp()` seeds the 3 fixed roles for exactly this
reason, since almost every test creates a role-bearing user). Checked via
`EnsureRole` at the route level. Every account gets `client` by default
(`App\Ldap\Handlers\AssignDefaultRole` for LDAP-provisioned accounts); staff
switch areas via the header role switcher, but always land on `/client` first
after login.
## Authentication
`config/auth.php` defines the default `web` guard against an LDAP-backed user
provider (LdapRecord); a plain Eloquent provider is kept alongside it only for
local tooling/tests that don't hit a directory. In production, LDAP bind is the
primary path; the local fallback account (`admin@example.com` from the seeder)
authenticates against a local password when the LDAP bind doesn't match — this is
the account used for first login after a fresh install (see
[install.md](install.md)).
`app/Ldap/Handlers/` hooks into LdapRecord's import/sync events:
`AssignDefaultRole` grants the `client` role to new LDAP-provisioned accounts,
`SyncUserFieldsFromLdap` keeps `UserFieldValue` rows in sync with directory
attributes.
## Settings override ("live config")
`App\Support\Settings` (`app/Support/Settings.php`) is a cached key/value reader
over the `settings` table, with hardcoded defaults for every key (company name,
LDAP/SMTP connection details, attachment limits, session lifetime, timezone,
branding/email HTML, etc.). Admin > Konfiguracja writes to this table, and
`AppServiceProvider::boot()` re-applies the relevant subset of it over
`config()` on every request — meaning **`Setting` rows win over `.env`** for
LDAP, mail, session lifetime and timezone once they're non-empty. This is by
design (lets an admin reconfigure LDAP/SMTP without a redeploy) but is also the
source of the "seeded placeholder overrides real `.env` values" gotcha
documented in [install.md](install.md) — anything touching LDAP/mail/session/
timezone config should go through `Settings`, not raw `config()`/`.env` reads.
## Notifications
`TicketService::notify(Ticket $ticket, string $triggerKey)` is the single
fan-out point for every ticket lifecycle event (see the `NotificationSetting`
rows seeded per trigger key) — it resolves the configured recipient
(`$ticket->assignee` or `$ticket->customer`) to a real `User` when one exists
and calls `$user->notify(new TicketNotification(...))`, which fires **both**
the `mail` and `database` channels (`App\Notifications\TicketNotification`) —
there's no separate on/off switch for in-app vs. e-mail, the same
`NotificationSetting.enabled` flag gates both. A guest customer with no
account still gets routed anonymously (`Notification::route('mail', $email)`,
mail-only — the database channel needs a real notifiable to attach the row
to). `TicketNotification` is constructed with an explicit `$recipientRole`
('client'|'operator') rather than inferring it from the notifiable's roles,
since one account can hold both — this decides whether the ticket link (both
the e-mail body and the in-app notification's `url`) points into `/client/...`
or `/operator/...`.
## Real-time broadcasting (Reverb)
Two private channels, authorized in `routes/channels.php`:
- **`operator.queue`** — one shared channel for every operator/admin (not
scoped per team/ticket), so the receiving `Operator\Queue` component just
re-queries through its own already-correct `Ticket::scopeVisibleToOperator()`
on any event instead of the channel-auth callback needing to duplicate that
ACL logic. Payloads stay minimal (ticket id + reason + actor id) for the
same reason.
- **`ticket.{id}`** — per-ticket channel for the message thread and detail
changes, authorized for an operator with `isVisibleToOperator()` **or** the
ticket's own customer (OR, not else-if — the one real account in this app
holds both roles at once). An internal note broadcasts on the same channel
a client can subscribe to, but the payload never carries the message body —
each side's Livewire component only ever re-queries whatever its own
already-authorized computed property returns, so there's nothing to leak.
Two events, both `App\Events\TicketQueueChanged` (broadcasts on **both**
channels above — a status/priority/team/assignee change needs to reach a
client watching their own ticket too) and `App\Events\TicketMessagePosted`
(broadcasts on `ticket.{id}` only). Both implement `ShouldBroadcastNow`, not
`ShouldBroadcast` — this app runs with no queue worker by design (see
`TicketNotification`), so broadcasting happens synchronously within the
request like everything else here. `TicketService` dispatches both from every
ticket-mutating method (create/setStatus/setPriority/setAssignee/setTeam/
operatorReply/operatorNote/clientReply/apiMessage/merge); the two ad hoc
delete call sites (`Operator\Queue::confirmDeleteSelected()`,
`Operator\TicketShow::confirmDeleteTicket()`) dispatch `TicketQueueChanged`
directly since there's no `TicketService::delete()` to hook into.
Browser side, `resources/js/echo.js` bridges Reverb events into plain
Livewire events (`Livewire.dispatch('queue-changed', ...)` /
`'ticket-message-posted'`) rather than using the `#[On('echo-private:...')]`
attribute directly — version-agnostic, and each Livewire component just
declares a plain `#[On(...)]` listener that no-ops if the payload's `actorId`
matches the viewer's own id (self-echo suppression) or the ticket id doesn't
match the component's own ticket. Two easy-to-reintroduce bugs to know about
if "nothing updates live" ever comes back:
1. **CSRF on `/broadcasting/auth`.** Echo's private-channel subscription
POSTs there under the app's normal CSRF middleware; the `Echo` constructor
must pass `auth.headers['X-CSRF-TOKEN']` (read from the `<meta
name="csrf-token">` tag in `layouts/app.blade.php`) or every subscription
attempt is silently rejected.
2. **Script load order.** `resources/js/app.js` (which imports `echo.js`)
loads via `@vite` as `type="module"`, which the HTML spec defers until
after the document is parsed — meaning Livewire's own bootstrap script
(`@livewireScripts`, a plain synchronous `<script>` near the end of
`<body>`) has already run by the time `echo.js` executes. Don't gate
anything in `echo.js` behind `document.addEventListener('livewire:init',
...)` — that event fires as part of Livewire's own (earlier) script, so a
listener registered this late permanently misses it. The one place this
still matters is the per-ticket subscription triggered from a Livewire
`@script` block in the ticket-show views, which can run before or after
`echo.js` depending on exactly when Livewire processes it — it queues the
ticket id onto `window.__pendingTicketChannelIds` if `echo.js` hasn't
defined `window.subscribeToTicketChannel` yet, and `echo.js` flushes that
queue once it has.
As a defense against a dropped websocket connection (backgrounded tab,
network blip), the operator queue and both ticket-detail views also poll
themselves every 3060 seconds via a small Alpine countdown calling
`$wire.refreshQueue()` / `$wire.refreshTicketData()` — broadcasting is
best-effort, not the only way these views ever update.
## SLA
`SlaRule` holds per-priority response/resolution targets in minutes. The
scheduled command `tickets:check-sla-breaches` (registered in
`routes/console.php`, run every 15 minutes via `schedule:run`) flags overdue
tickets and can notify the assigned operator — see [install.md](install.md) for
why this requires an external cron entry (the Docker image ships no
cron/supervisor of its own).
## SLA automation rules
`AutomationRule` (label, `condition_minutes`, optional `scope_priority_key`/
`scope_subcategory_id`/`scope_team_id`, `action_type` + `action_value`) lets an
admin configure "if a ticket has been silent for N minutes, change its
priority/status/team/assignee" without code — Admin > Automatyzacja SLA. The
scheduled command `automation:run-rules` (also every 15 minutes) evaluates
every enabled rule against `Ticket.last_customer_activity_at` (falling back to
`created_at` if never set — mirrors how `resolutionDeadline()` treats a
missing `SlaRule` as "no SLA" rather than backfilling one), and applies a
match through the same `TicketService` setters a manual operator action would
use, so the automated change gets the same history entry, notification, and
broadcast for free. Idempotency is a per-(rule, ticket) row in
`automation_rule_ticket_logs`, cleared by `TicketService` whenever the silence
that triggered it is broken (a fresh `clientReply()`) or the ticket
closes/reopens (`setStatus()`) — so a rule can fire again after a new period
of silence instead of being permanently latched. Multiple matching rules on
the same ticket in the same run all fire independently, in `id` order; a rule
that closes the ticket doesn't block earlier-ordered rules already applied
this run, but a later rule's own query naturally excludes an already-closed
ticket.
## API
`routes/api.php` + `app/Http/Controllers/Api/` expose a small ability-scoped REST
surface over Sanctum tokens (`tickets:read`, `tickets:write`,
`dictionaries:read`, `users:read`), issued via admin-managed `ApiClient` records.
Rate limiting is configured per-client (120 req/min keyed by client ID) vs. a
tighter per-IP limit for unauthenticated requests
(`AppServiceProvider::configureApiRateLimiting()`). Interactive docs are
generated by L5-Swagger at `/admin/api-docs`; there is no static Markdown API
reference in-repo.
## BookStack integration
`App\Services\BookStackClient` is the only outbound HTTP client in the
codebase (Laravel's `Http` facade) — everything else here only ever receives
requests. It's entirely `Settings`-driven, no `.env`/`config()` involved:
`bookstack_enabled`, `bookstack_base_url`, `bookstack_token_id`/
`bookstack_token_secret` (encrypted, same as the LDAP/SMTP passwords),
`bookstack_verify_ssl`, `bookstack_search_types` ('both'|'page'|'book'), and
**two independent** allow-lists of BookStack shelf IDs —
`bookstack_allowed_shelf_ids_creation` (ticket-wizard suggestions) and
`bookstack_allowed_shelf_ids_ticket_view` (the operator's sidebar on an
existing ticket) — `search()` takes a `$context` (`CONTEXT_CREATION` /
`CONTEXT_TICKET_VIEW`) that selects which one applies. **An empty allow-list
means "search nothing"**, not "search everything" — nothing is ever
suggested until an admin explicitly opts shelves in, independently per
context. BookStack has no "which shelf is this book on" field in its own
search response, so `BookStackClient` fetches `/api/shelves` +
`/api/shelves/{id}` once (cached 30 min) into a shelf→book-ids map, used both
to resolve the allow-list to book IDs and to build the "Shelf > Book"
breadcrumb shown next to each suggestion. Per-query search results are cached
10 minutes, keyed on the query text **and** the active allow-list, so toggling
which shelves are allowed is reflected immediately instead of serving a
pre-change result for up to 10 minutes.