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Feature #4052

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Cross-project redmine links with alternate link text for source and export links.

Added by William Baum over 14 years ago. Updated about 8 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Text formatting
Target version:
-
Start date:
2009-10-19
Due date:
% Done:

50%

Estimated time:
Resolution:

Description

In Feature #3346 (Support for cross-project revision links), James Wells and Babar O'Cap collaborated to make it possible to create commit and revision links across projects.

I have now extended the project: syntax to source: and export: links and also extended them with the ability to specify alternate link text: "Download filename" instead of projectname:export:foo/bar/path/filename.

I have also corrected the issue causing source and export links to not be properly converted to absolute links in issue update emails. (See Defect #3483)

So... Source and export links now work in emails, can be cross project, and can have alternate display text for the link.

Syntax:

  • ["Link alternate display title"=][project:]source:some/path[/file][@52][#L120]
  • ["Link alternate display title"=][project:]export:some/path/file[@52]

Note: For the link text, the double-quotes are currently required, even if the text is only one word. I chose to implement the alternate link name functionality in a way that altered the primary regex as little as possible. It's getting a bit unwieldy.

091018-cross-project_redmine_links-tests.patch contains changes to test/* files as provided in:

  • #3346 cross-project_revision_and_commit_links_v5.diff - Patch v5 - from Babar O'Cap, 2009-08-26 03:27

    I have no idea how to use, extend, or test this test/* functionality, so I didn't attempt to..

091018-cross-project_redmine_links.patch contains no test/* file modifications.


Files

091018-cross-project_redmine_links.patch (12.4 KB) 091018-cross-project_redmine_links.patch functional changes (revision 2879) William Baum, 2009-10-19 05:43
091018-cross-project_redmine_links-tests.patch (16.9 KB) 091018-cross-project_redmine_links-tests.patch functional changes plus partial test functionality. (revision 2879) William Baum, 2009-10-19 05:43
091021-cross-project_redmine_links.patch (12.5 KB) 091021-cross-project_redmine_links.patch William Baum, 2009-10-22 02:59
100328-_r3618_-cross-project_redmine_links.patch (12.3 KB) 100328-_r3618_-cross-project_redmine_links.patch updated patch against r3618 William Baum, 2010-03-29 00:47
100805-1.0.0_r3854-cross-project_redmine_links.patch (12.2 KB) 100805-1.0.0_r3854-cross-project_redmine_links.patch William Baum, 2010-08-06 01:22
100806-0.9.6_add_cross_project_links_with_changesets.patch (771 Bytes) 100806-0.9.6_add_cross_project_links_with_changesets.patch Patch to add cross-project references when fixing via repository commit keywords Pieter Smith, 2010-08-06 14:25

Related issues

Related to Redmine - Feature #779: Multiple SCM per projectClosedJean-Philippe Lang2008-03-04

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Related to Redmine - Feature #7409: Cross project Redmine linksClosed2011-01-22

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Related to Redmine - Feature #3346: Support for cross-project revision linksClosed2009-05-12

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Related to Redmine - Defect #3483: Relative url for source links in notificationsClosedJean-Philippe Lang2009-06-12

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Related to Redmine - Feature #10248: Specific text instead of addresses to the Redmine internal linksNew

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Related to Redmine - Feature #21443: Links to resources in MarkdownNew

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Has duplicate Redmine - Feature #4667: Ability to link to a revision in a subprojects repositoryClosed2010-01-27

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Actions #1

Updated by William Baum over 14 years ago

oops.. image links don't work for attachments.. that last part was supposed to be:

091018-cross-project_redmine_links-tests.patch contains changes to test/* files as provided in:

  • #3346 cross-project_revision_and_commit_links_v5.diff - Patch v5 - from Babar O'Cap, 2009-08-26 03:27

    I have no idea how to use, extend, or test this test/* functionality, so I didn't attempt to..

091018-cross-project_redmine_links.patch contains no test/* file modifications.

Actions #2

Updated by William Baum over 14 years ago

I have discovered an issue with this, which hopefully can be easily resolved...

This patch currently breaks the !version#6 syntax. Instead of being a link to the version in the roadmap, it becomes a link to an issue by that number (#6).

Actions #3

Updated by William Baum over 14 years ago

Updated patch file, corrects issues with attachment, document, and version links.

Actions #4

Updated by Babar O'Cap over 14 years ago

+1

Actions #5

Updated by Alexey Palazhchenko almost 14 years ago

Any news?

Actions #6

Updated by William Baum almost 14 years ago

Here's an svn formatted patch against r3618.

It's functional, but could use some refactoring.

Actions #8

Updated by Pieter Smith over 13 years ago

+1

This is so damn useful! Why has nobody added it to the roadmap yet!?

Actions #9

Updated by Pieter Smith over 13 years ago

Hi William,
Any chance that you can update the patch for redmine 0.9.6 or later?
Thanks in advance!

Actions #10

Updated by Pieter Smith over 13 years ago

O'h... I forgot to mention that I tried merging the patch with 0.9.6, but got more merge conflicts than I can safely solve with my limited Ruby knowledge.

Actions #11

Updated by William Baum over 13 years ago

My apologies.. I actually started to do this weeks ago and got pulled off on something else..

Attached is 100805-1.0.0_r3854-cross-project_redmine_links.patch, which is a patch against 1.0.0 (source:/trunk@3854).

I did actually generate patches against 0.9.5 (source:/trunk@3815) and 0.9.6 (source:/trunk@3815) as well, but I'm not uploading them because they are identical except for the revision references in the patch. This patch should apply without issue against any trunk or release between r3602 and r3894.

The functional changes in this patch are all in app/helpers/application_helper.rb, which has had a couple of recent revisions that would affect line numbers, but the patch should still apply properly to a current trunk. Let me know if you need a patch against a more recent trunk..

Actions #12

Updated by Pieter Smith over 13 years ago

Thanks. Can't we get a Target Version for this? How can we convince the core team to integrate this?

I am also adding 100806-0.9.6_add_cross_project_links_with_changesets.patch to use the cross-project wiki formats (project:r1234 and project:commit:ab34cd) when fixing issues via repository commit keywords.

Actions #13

Updated by Pieter Smith over 13 years ago

By the way... 100805-1.0.0_r3854-cross-project_redmine_links.patch doesn't play well with 0.9.6. The trouble starts with:

text = text.gsub(%r{([\s\(,\-\>]|^)(!)?(attachment|document|version|commit|source|export|message)?((#|r)(\d+)|(:)([^"\s<>][^\s<>]*?|"[^"]+?"))(?=(?=[[:punct:]]\W)|,|\s|<|$)}) do |m|

in 0.9.6 versus the expected
text.gsub!(%r{([\s\(,\-\[\>]|^)(!)?(attachment|document|version|commit|source|export|message|project)?((#|r)(\d+)|(:)([^"\s<>][^\s<>]*?|"[^"]+?"))(?=(?=[[:punct:]]\W)|,|\s|\]|<|$)}) do |m|

which is what the patch expects.

Actions #14

Updated by Blake Williams about 13 years ago

Subprojects in Redmine are effectively useless without this feature.

Actions #15

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 13 years ago

  • Category set to Text formatting
Actions #16

Updated by Stefan Lindner over 11 years ago

Still no plans to include this in near future? Wikis look awful without th ability to display a homan readable text for repository links.

Actions #17

Updated by Sébastien Aubry over 11 years ago

The syntax: [[project:page|text]] should indeed work. It is even weird that it is not the case by default. Probably a problem with the regexp?

Actions #18

Updated by Thomas Robbs about 11 years ago

+1

Actions #19

Updated by Arthur Zalevsky almost 10 years ago

Yep, it's definitely necessary feature.

Actions #20

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 10 years ago

  • Related to Defect #3483: Relative url for source links in notifications added
Actions #21

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 9 years ago

  • Related to Feature #10248: Specific text instead of addresses to the Redmine internal links added
Actions #22

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA about 8 years ago

Actions #23

Updated by Hans Ginzel about 8 years ago

Please, also for Markdown formatting, #15520.

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