https://www.redmine.org/https://www.redmine.org/favicon.ico?16793021292009-01-16T05:20:13ZRedmineRedmine - Feature #2472: Administration > Custom fields (list) > Possible values should be a textareahttps://www.redmine.org/issues/2472?journal_id=66952009-01-16T05:20:13ZEwan Makepeace
<ul></ul><p>+2 :-)</p>
<p>FogBugz made a huge noise about their feature where you can enter issues as fast as you can type them and hit enter due to some clever Ajax, but all you really need is a text area.</p>
<p>More than custom fields, more than multiple users, the killer application here is adding a bunch of issues in one hit.</p>
<p>Think how often issues come in the form of emails, meeting notes, spec documents ect with a bullet pointed list of action items. What you want to be able to do is to paste that list into a text area, set some attributes that would apply to all of them and hit enter.</p>
<p>We had this on our previous (home grown) tracker and it encouraged splitting tasks down into much more fine grained tasks, which is usually a good thing, and saved much time and frustration.</p> Redmine - Feature #2472: Administration > Custom fields (list) > Possible values should be a textareahttps://www.redmine.org/issues/2472?journal_id=67002009-01-16T09:52:25ZVianney Stroebel
<ul></ul><p>Thanks Ewan.</p>
<p>Could you change the title of this issue to make it more general? I'm not a native English speaker and it wouldn't be as effective if I do it.</p>
<p>Something like "Enter multiple items in a textarea (issues, users, custom field values...)"</p> Redmine - Feature #2472: Administration > Custom fields (list) > Possible values should be a textareahttps://www.redmine.org/issues/2472?journal_id=67022009-01-16T10:20:23ZMaxim KruĊĦina
<ul></ul><p>Or maybe the textarea can be an option to fill in initial list. The rest of behaviour can keep current implementation (IMHO it's better due to DB model).</p> Redmine - Feature #2472: Administration > Custom fields (list) > Possible values should be a textareahttps://www.redmine.org/issues/2472?journal_id=67122009-01-16T21:05:00ZJean-Philippe Langjp_lang@yahoo.fr
<ul><li><strong>Category</strong> set to <i>Custom fields</i></li><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>New</i> to <i>Closed</i></li><li><strong>Target version</strong> set to <i>0.9.0</i></li><li><strong>Resolution</strong> set to <i>Fixed</i></li></ul><blockquote>
<p>The current way of filling in possible values of a list custom field is nice, but a simple textarea would actually be better.</p>
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<p>Agreed. Change committed in <a class="changeset" title="Use a textarea for custom fields possible values (#2472)." href="https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/repository/svn/revisions/2267">r2267</a>.</p>
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<p>Could you change the title of this issue to make it more general?</p>
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<p>No. I dislike general feature requests.<br />But Ewan is right, being able to create a bunch of issues in one hit would be nice.<br />It shouldn't be that hard to do but I really prefer to see separate feature request.</p>
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<p>The rest of behaviour can keep current implementation</p>
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<p>I don't see any good reason for keeping the prior behaviour.<br />A textarea is much more convenient to create or to maintain the value list. And no need for javascript :-)</p>