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I like 1 because it seems that I can change the status the quickest(one click).
Whichever approach you take from 1 to 3, I think it will be a useful feature that many people use!

Hi Marius, this is a good step forward.
Have you evalueted the jira edit approach implemented by this plugin Dynamic edit?
Thanks for your work.

Hm... I always missed that feature.

However, it would be much better if the assignee could be set in the same step. E.g.: when I choose status 'solved' the assigne should be automatically set to QA. Or it should be selectable who will be the assignee (the ones which are allowed by the workflow settings). If I can set it only to 'solved' then I have to edit the issue a second time to choose the assignee. And my guess is that many would like to set the status and the assignee at the same time.

That makes things more complex, I guess. But that would be very desirable. At least for the use in our company.

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I agree with improving the Redmine UI.

As an implementation of 1, there is a status_button plugin.
https://www.redmine.org/plugins/status_button

It is useful as a simple workflow system.
If the issue creator sets an approver, the approver proceeds by simply pressing the next status.
It reflects the permissions and roles on Redmine.

I just modified it for Redmine4.1.
https://github.com/y503unavailable/status_button

However, sufficient testing has not yet been completed.
I hope anyone can try it. :-)

I have added a new proposal based on #33254.

pasquale [:dedalus] wrote:

Have you evalueted the jira edit approach implemented by this plugin Dynamic edit?

Yes, I know the plugin and in the past, I started to build a similar plugin, but I've never finished because I found it complex to maintain. Regarding inline editing of each attribute, the change it's quite huge and I'm not sure if it's the best option, maybe it's enough to have a more Linkedin edit mechanism for each section (attributes, description, each full width custom field). Anyway, there are different features and we need a validation first from Jean-Philippe. One more thing, from what I know, even Jira in new version (8) has a status dropdown to change the status, but I'm not 100% sure how it works.

Robert Schneider wrote:

Hm... I always missed that feature.

However, it would be much better if the assignee could be set in the same step. E.g.: when I choose status 'solved' the assigne should be automatically set to QA. Or it should be selectable who will be the assignee (the ones which are allowed by the workflow settings). If I can set it only to 'solved' then I have to edit the issue a second time to choose the assignee. And my guess is that many would like to set the status and the assignee at the same time.

That makes things more complex, I guess. But that would be very desirable. At least for the use in our company.

Indeed, it is getting much more complicated to support this because it depends a lot on the workflow. Maybe for some users/companies the Assignee field makes sense, but for other, maybe it's a custom field named "QA Assignee" or the "Target version" field. When I started to think on this issue, I wanted to show only the mandatory fields for next status which are not filled (in order to allow users to fill those fields before the validation), but it still doesn't cover all the cases and I decided to keep it simple and maybe to work in future releases to a more complex way to configure transitions buttons (how luxury_buttons plugin does).

I like the third approach most as I think my colleagues would recognize and adopt it very quickly.

Version 1 is too confusing for most of my users. Too much choice, you know. ;-) The second version is not visible enough to find it by yourself.

Robert Schneider wrote:

Hm... I always missed that feature.

However, it would be much better if the assignee could be set in the same step. E.g.: when I choose status 'solved' the assigne should be automatically set to QA.

This sounds like a very good job for a custom script/bot which pushes your tickets to the right assignee based on your criteria. Something like the Tasks engine in Nextcloud would be great for that use case, too.

Great thanks to Mizuki ISHIKAWA, the patch works for redmine 4.2, it greatly improves productivity!

This feature would be really helpful!
Is there a working patch / plugin for Redmine 5?
Seems that the patch by Mizuki ISHIKAWA is not compatible with version 5, and I couldn't get the latest version of "status button" plugin working, tried this one: https://github.com/asannou/redmine_status_button