Re: Making 'title' non-mandatory in new issues

Hi Dan:

In message <[email protected]>,
Dan Tenenbaum writes:
>I want issue titles to be auto-generated from information inside
>files that are attached to issues. This will be done via a detector.
> [...]
>So... when creating an issue, I want to allow an empty title. Currently I'll get the error:
>
>Error: Required issue property title not supplied 
>
>...if I leave the title blank. This is coming from the roundup package (not from detectors). Looks like it's in cgi/form_parser.py. But it's difficult to figure out what exactly to change. I'd like it to be up to my detector whether or not a missing title is valid.
>

Look in your tracker directory under html/issue.item.html. You should
see something like:

   <input type="hidden" name="@required" value="title,priority">

If you remove 'title' from there, form_parser.py shouldn't report the
lack of a title. Search for @required in
http://www.roundup-tracker.org/docs/customizing.html for further
details.

>And also, for a new issue only, I don't even want to see the input
>box for Title, since whatever the user puts in there will be
>overwritten by my detector.

In tracker_dir/html/issue.item.html put something like:

 <tal:block tal:condition="python: context.id">
    <put existing html for the title block here>
 </tal:block>

This checks to see if the id of the context of the web request (see:
http://www.roundup-tracker.org/docs/customizing.html#determining-web-context
) is true. If the id is empty the user is creating/editing a new
issue. If the id is not null/empty an existing issue is being edited
and this will show the title.

See tracker_dir/html/issue.item.html and search for "New Issue" to see
an example of how the tal templating lanaguage is used.

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