Redmine

Let me rephrase it, to be more clear:

I want to add a global "Customer" field and in each project of the 2nd type, define as a default value the Customer it is associated to, in order to be able to retrieve (for all projects) Time Spent on each project per Customer. In Type 1 projects, the user will manually fill-out this field.

Created a plugin: https://github.com/sense-design/redmine_project_custom_field_defaults

That seems to work just fine! Many thanks for the plugin, does exactly what i wanted.

Hope i'm not asking too much but i would like to know if the following can be achieved (either forcefully or perhaps by a checkbox in the "default values" tab, which would be the best): a way to disable the custom fields of a project that DO have a default value defined, so that the user is not able to change this value.

This should be possible with the workflow, there you can disable fields per role

Yes, but this is defined on a specific tracker for ALL projects, right? I'm asking if a custom field can be disabled per project and only if a default value has been defined for it (in that project).

If there is a default value within the project

1. Disable the field so nobody is able to change it
2. Disable the field on a role basis

What about inherited field values from the parent project?

Well, in my case "inherited" should also mean "inherit the value defined at the parent level".

Please provide a feature request here
https://github.com/sense-design/redmine_project_custom_field_defaults/issues/new

Done. Hope the description is clear enough. Thanks for keeping up with this, it's pretty useful to me.

THX