Redmine

On DevMeeting1 we agreed on merging the Documents and Files sections. But this will probably only be part of Version 1.1.0

Please add your modification as a patch here, so that the UX Team can use it during the redesign.

Well, I must warn you that I have ANY skills in Ruby, I had never seen a line of code in Ruby before :)

The modification I made is very simple, I changed line 30.

Before:

 <td class="filename"><%= link_to_attachment file, :download => true, :title => file.description %></td>

After:

<td class="filename"><%= if file.description.empty?
                               link_to_attachment file, :download => true, :title => file.description
                             else
                               link_to_attachment file, :download => true, :title => file.description, :text => file.filename + \
" - " + file.description
                             end %></td>

The feature is quite simple (unfortunately I currently can't setup a contribution environment)

In redmine/app/views/files/index.html.erb just add the following (works in version 3.3.0):

# in the thead section add the following line after :field_filename
<%= sort_header_tag('filename', :caption => l(:field_description)) %>

# in the <th> section the colspan is extended to 7, because we have a new column

# now in the table row section of the table data, add the following line after the existing filename td
<td class="filename"><%= link_to_attachment file, :download => true, :text => file.description %></td>

At some point this was Feature was added to list the description next to the listing of files in the description of the ticket; however, it still does not display the description of the File in the issue update comment which shows a File was added. This is quite annoying and should be fairly trivial to add.