Re: Categories when moving an issue to another project

Thanks.  I just looked at the 1.2.x manual and config_defaults_inc.php file and I see the following info to which you are referring:

        /**
         * Default global category to be used when an issue is moved from a project to another
         * that doesn't have a category with a matching name.  The default is 1 which is the "General"
         * category that is created in the default database.
         */
        $g_default_category_for_moves = 1;

Once I upgrade I will have to look into using this either as is w/"General" or defining new ones. 

Thanks
KM
 

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 From: Damien Regad <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [mantisbt-help] Categories when moving an issue to another	project
  

On 07.02.2014 17:31, KM wrote:
> Currently we are using 1.1.7 which is very old. I am going to work on
> upgrading to 1.2.x.   However I had a question.  Does anyone know if in
> the 1.2.x series if the "Category" field is validated when moving an
> issue from one project to another?  I know that in 1.1.7 it is not.

Categories are handled differently in 1.2 - they are identified by a 
category ID.

When moving categories to a different project, should the category not 
be available in the target project, Mantis would fall back to a default 
category (which you can define) so in theory you should not have invalid 
categories anymore.

> Will upgrading to 1.2.x fix this and force a user to update the
> category?  the same is happening for the versions for the projects.

I am not sure how the upgrade process actually handles this, but I would 
assume it follows the same logic of assigning a default category.

> If not - does anyone know if there is an easy way to possibly write a
> custom function to do this on a move?

You can probably do that, but it's probably best managed by manipulating 
the data either before or after the upgrade process. I don't recommend 
messing with the the installer.

Hope this helps

D


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