Quicksearch
Hhow to modify the "Quick search" and remove stalled tickets from appearing in the search results. Applies to RT 3.8.x.
Copy share/html/Elements/Quicksearch to local/html/Elements, and then edit the copy.
Under queue_filter, replace the line "conditions => \@conditions," with:
conditions => [ {cond => "Status = 'new'", name => loc ('new') }, {cond => "Status = 'open'", name => loc ('open') }] &>
Then restart Apache. You can also add other statuses here as you choose.