- Add /tickets/unanswered-counts API endpoint for staff/admin
- Show red badge with unanswered count on sidebar nav (staff tickets, admin tickets)
- Add summary cards (unanswered/answered/total) to staff tickets page
- Highlight unanswered count in admin tickets stats cards
- Staff can create tickets to OTHER departments only (not their own)
- Frontend hides own department from ticket creation dropdown
- Sidebar badges auto-refresh every 30 seconds
- Replace ticketsRepo.save(ticket) with ticketsRepo.update() to avoid
cascade orphaning existing messages (SET ticketId=null violates NOT NULL)
- Fix reply(), close() in tickets.service.ts
- Fix updateStatus() in tickets.controller.ts using new updateTicketFields() method
- Add updateTicketFields() helper to TicketsService for safe partial updates
Backend:
- Added TECHNICAL and SALES roles to UserRole enum
- Added TicketDepartment, TicketStatus, TicketPriority enums
- Created Ticket and TicketMessage entities with relationships
- Created TicketsModule with full CRUD service and controller
- Ticket routing: users create tickets to technical/sales departments
- Staff reply updates status (answered), user reply sets waiting
- Role-based access: technical staff sees technical tickets, sales sees sales tickets
- Admin sees all tickets with stats (total, open, avg response time)
- Updated access control: technical role has admin-level access (except role change)
- Sales role can view users and handle sales tickets
- Clusters controller: technical role can manage clusters/pools
- Users controller: technical/sales can view users, only admin changes roles
Frontend:
- New user ticket pages: list (with create form) + detail (chat-style messages)
- Staff ticket panel: filtered by department with status filters
- Admin all-tickets page with statistics dashboard and department/status filters
- Updated sidebar: role-based nav items (admin/technical/sales sections)
- Role badges in header for technical (blue) and sales (green)
- Admin users page: new roles in dropdowns, role change restricted to admin only
- Deploy page: technical role gets cluster selection access like admin