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I did create a Feature issue for this : https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530

Of course first start is to read existing documentation on custom fields ;-) ( https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineCustomFields )

There a 173 features openned for custom fields, this is a somehow too much to be reviewed one by one :

https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&set_filter=1&sort=id%3Adesc&f%5B%5D=status_id&op%5Bstatus_id%5D=o&f%5B%5D=tracker_id&op%5Btracker_id%5D=%3D&v%5Btracker_id%5D%5B%5D=2&f%5B%5D=category_id&op%5Bcategory_id%5D=%3D&v%5Bcategory_id%5D%5B%5D=14&f%5B%5D=&c%5B%5D=tracker&c%5B%5D=status&c%5B%5D=subject&c%5B%5D=updated_on&c%5B%5D=category&group_by=&t%5B%5D=

Current prototype status preview.

group_category_layout : a new field that contains a string. It is used as legend for grouped items. Work in progress

fields with a group_category_layout set and same group_category_layout are grouped altogether.
groups are ordered using lexicographic ordering on group_category_layout string.

Attached an example for an Issue with some grouped fields.

Same request already exist, issue https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530 was updated with link to https://www.redmine.org/issues/35281.

This topic should be discussed to converge to a viable and common solution.

There was no update on this from issues and i have limited time to actualy deliver this feature.
I then will do it as a plugin ( if possible ) and publish it.
Having a working plugin to play with might be a starting point for further discussions.

I did push a prototype in https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530

idea is to reuse custom field as a category to group other custom fields, custom fields have a new attribute for their parent category.
From here we could create a 'group' or 'layout' type to really dedicate them. currently any kind of custom field can be used as a group.
An interest to do this is to support display, info popup of group and improvement in i18n of custom fields without need of extra code.

Somehow can be used as a very restricted version of structured fields like feature as https://www.redmine.org/issues/38957.

Another feature is https://www.redmine.org/issues/40084 that is dedicated to insert static information.

If integrated this kind of custom field could be used as group category.

I took time to port https://www.redmine.org/issues/30919 in current master branch to review how to converge with https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530.

Thanks to Orange sponsoring, development of this feature proceed further.

here is a plugin mixing :

- https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530
- https://www.redmine.org/issues/40084
- https://www.redmine.org/issues/30919

plugin will be attached on https://www.redmine.org/issues/30919

Adding possiblity to change full_width_layout for a group so by project and tracker. some pending work is on github https://github.com/artlog/redmine/ .

Hi philippe lhardy,

I developed the following plugin which is inspired from #30919 patches by Frederico Camara.
Hopefully, this plugin matches for your use case.
https://github.com/gtt-project/redmine_custom_fields_groups
https://github.com/gtt-project/redmine_custom_fields_groups/blob/main/lib/redmine_custom_fields_groups/patches/issues_helper_patch.rb#L10-L12
Just FYI

Hi Ko Nagase

Thanks for coding it and adding this information here.
As you can read in this topic thread, i already did code a plugin and merged extensions to it since i was not aware of your work.
Collecting implementations and trying to move in a common direction is a good step and will be helpful for redmine community.

Kind Regards

There was no update on this from issues and i have limited time to actualy deliver this feature.

There hasn't been any progress on this issue, and I'm running short on time to actually implement this feature. Therefore, I'll proceed to develop it as a plugin (if feasible) and release it. Having a functional plugin to experiment with could serve as a foundation for further discussions.