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

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John P. Rouillard" <[email protected]>
> To: "roundup-users" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 2:41:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Roundup-users] 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.
> 

Great, these both work like a charm. Thanks,
Dan


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