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Feature #15340

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Custom field referencing other tickets

Added by Il Igid over 10 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
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Category:
Custom fields
Target version:
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Description

Redmine could become much more powerful if it would be possible to add custom fields which reference other tickts. It should be possible to filter the set of tickets referenceable per field. Via this a user could setup very powerful structures.
The field should be
  • configurable to show #id, name or both
  • displayed as a hyperlink which when clicked opens the referenced ticket

In general handling tickets as objects and applying filters to create sets of filters and support referencing between tickets would be a very powerful architectural choice. Next logical steps would be powerful reporting features (you want to be able to analyze according to the interdependencies), powerful dependency handlers (e.g. showing content of a referenced ticket directly in a referencing ticket).

Example 1: customer database
  • a user could create a customer project with tickets per customer
  • in a reference custom field the admin could define a filter which only allows references to tickets in this customer project
  • the user can select from the available customer tickets and the ticket would allow to click on the customer reference and get detailed information
Example 2: Multi scale categorization
  • You have a hierarchical project structure setup with architectural work packages
  • You additionally want to group V&V tasks, engineering tasks, ... across the hierarchy and across trackers
  • You additionally want to group according to features (across the hierarchy), which may be available as tickets already
  • You additionally want to group according to requirements (not necessarily the same as a feature)

Files

ISSUE_TYPE_CUSTOM_FIELDS.diff (1.08 KB) ISSUE_TYPE_CUSTOM_FIELDS.diff Auto-format text fields to links to issues Pierre Luce, 2014-01-08 19:22

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