Re: Unique project names

On 12-Feb-09, at 1:03 PM, John Reese wrote:

> On 02/12/2009 11:55 AM, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
>> Can anyone shed any light on why sub-projects have to be unique  
>> over the
>> whole of mantis? This is causing us some problems as we have several
>> quite level areas, then within this we have areas of responsibility  
>> and
>> again within this categories.
>>
>> It is proving troublesome to have different names for the same  
>> things..
>> in slightly different areas.
>
> Perhaps it would be useful to know that you can link a project as
> sub-project to multiple main projects.
>
> Eg:
>   Create three projects: A, B, and C
>   Set C as a sub-project of A
>   Set C as a sub-project of B
>
>   Resulting hierarchy:
>
>      A   B
>       \ /
>        C

   This was the original intent when the feature was added. This would  
allow common code to show up in the bug lists for multiple projects.  
It was also done to allow private projects (with different teams) to  
be aggregated by managers.

   From your description, you probably want to use categories, not  
subprojects.




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