use theme functions to format blocks à la Drupal instead of hand-rolled HTML
there should be a (per-user) setting for the maximum length of HD blocks before paging occurs: lists are currently unlimited
there should be a site-wide setting for these values, acting as a default prior to user settings
Improvements expected in a minor release after 1.0
Determination of customer status is currently inconsistent and distributed: as of 2005/11/06, function _helpdesk_is_customer is not used, and various checks are performed at various places in the code, some being based on the hd_user.uid == hd_user.uidcustomer test, while is_customer is role-based. The hd_user-based test might allow for removal of the customer role altogether, to simplify (?) administration
In admin/settings/helpdesk, only offer for selection vocabularies that can be appplied to the HD types (from vocabulary_node_types)
for HD Techss: various stats, notably SLA-related.
Ideas for next major release after 1.0
Settings
a HD user can define whether (s)he wants one of the blocks made available by the module on his pages. A per-user setting could be added to define whether users wanting the blocks want them whether they are empty or not.
a HD HD Techs could be allowed to define the default behaviour for what happens :
when customers are deleted:
are their users and contracts moved to another customer uid (which one ?) or deleted, or kep orphans ?
are the issues of their users affected ?
when contracts are deleted
are the events bound to them affected, and how ?
when issues are deleted
are followups deleted too, or bound to another issue, or kept orphans ?