Re: Manging forward and reverse links

In message <[email protected]>,
Bernhard Reiter writes:
>Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2013, 20:35:12 schrieb John P. Rouillard:
>> If you are working with an issue, it is easy to add/remove links from
>> the issue to other issues by simply editing the link entry.
>> 
>> However what I want to do is the reverse: edit links from other issues
>> that point to my current issue. I want to do it while changing my
>> current issue and not have to load the other issues.
>
>Fair enough. :)
>But why not leave out the "(" and ")" characters entirely?

Ah ok, I didn't explain myself well enough. I want a single edit box
that can be used for both:

   adding/removing links from this issue to another

and

  adding/removing links from another issue that points to this one

so an entry for the depends property would look like:

   1 3 5 (9) (22) (10)

which would be interpreted as:

  this issue depends on issues: 1, 3 and 5

  issues 9, 22 and 10 depend on this issue

so there has to be some decoration to show that the (9) (22) and (10)
indicate the reverse links.

Does that explain what is happening with the ()'s?

As far as I know there is no way to get data from the front ends (cgi,
email) to the detectors except by declaring the data as the value of a
property. I don't want to create a property "backdepends" that
contains 9, 10, 22 for three reasons:

  1) The propery (and it's data) is redundant. This information is
     already stored in the depends property of the other issue and
     can be retrieved using a filter.

  2) Every property ends us being displayed in the order and sort
     pulldown on the index displays. This just clutters things up (I
     have at least three of these foward/reverse properties in the
     sysadmin tracker) and AFAIK there is no way to hide a property
     from the pulldowns while allowing the user to edit it.

  3) I want to eliminate another edit box for the property to
     keep the interface cleaner. 

This is a fake property that exists only to provide functionality in
the editing interface and will be empty by default (so I don't end up
storing the same data in two places).

Does this explain things better?

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