Feature #442
closed
Add a description for trackers
Added by Thomas Lecavelier over 16 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.
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Description
Hi,
In a project, when having testers/reporters that are newcomers in the job, they could hesitate between different trackers
before opening their request. It would be a good thing that trackers could own a description field. This description
should appear in an info bubble when the mouse is flying over the tracker name, i.e. in the Overview of a project and/or
in the top of the issue page (pages generated by URL: projects/list_issues/#?set_filter=#&tracker_id=#).
I'll be glad to precise my thoughts if needed.
Tom.
Files
| 01_add_description_to_trackers.patch (12.4 KB) 01_add_description_to_trackers.patch | Marius BĂLTEANU, 2017-05-21 21:51 | ||
| 02_select_and_apply_tracker.patch (3.05 KB) 02_select_and_apply_tracker.patch | Marius BĂLTEANU, 2017-05-21 21:51 | ||
| trackers_index.png (137 KB) trackers_index.png | Marius BĂLTEANU, 2017-05-21 22:14 | ||
| tracker_title.png (189 KB) tracker_title.png | Marius BĂLTEANU, 2017-05-21 22:15 | ||
| trackers_description_modal.png (130 KB) trackers_description_modal.png | Marius BĂLTEANU, 2017-05-21 22:17 | ||
| 02-select-and-apply-tracker_r1785.patch (1.76 KB) 02-select-and-apply-tracker_r1785.patch | Marius BĂLTEANU, 2018-01-28 21:07 | ||
| 01-add-description-to-trackers_r1785.patch (12.5 KB) 01-add-description-to-trackers_r1785.patch | Marius BĂLTEANU, 2018-01-28 21:07 |
Related issues
Updated by 
Updated by
Updated by Eric Davis almost 15 years ago
- Category set to Issues
This would also be good when reporting new issues.
"You have chosen Bug. A bug is a flaw in the existing application that causes an undesired behavior....."
Updated by 
Updated by
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 10 years ago
- Has duplicate Feature #9256: Trackers have a description in addition to a name added
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 10 years ago
- Related to Feature #5201: Description field for Tracker setting added
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 10 years ago
- Related to Feature #5026: Description field for Status/Role/Tracker setting. added
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 10 years ago
- Has duplicate Feature #15018: Description or help for trackers added
Updated by Mischa The Evil over 10 years ago
- Target version set to Candidate for next major release
Target version roll-up from closed duplicate #9256.
Updated by 
Updated by
Updated by Robert Schneider almost 9 years ago
+1
Shouldn't that be easy to implement?
Updated by Ivan Cenov almost 9 years ago
- New issue form, next to the dropbox of the trackers - show the description of the currently selected tracker
- Project settings page, Information tab - on mouse hovering on the tracker names, or small icon next to each tracker name - clicking on it show baloon with tracker's description.
Updated by Robert Schneider almost 9 years ago
Ivan Cenov wrote:
Where trackers descriptions to be shown? Possible places are:
- New issue form, next to the dropbox of the trackers - show the description of the currently selected tracker
- Project settings page, Information tab - on mouse hovering on the tracker names, or small icon next to each tracker name - clicking on it show baloon with tracker's description.
That shouldn't be so hard, I guess.
Updated by
Updated by Akiko Takano almost 7 years ago
Hi, I’ve updated related patch to this request, it's attached to #5201.
In this patch, I tried to implement the feature based on Ivan’s comment.
1. Display modal (popup) window to show tracker’s description at new/edit issue screen.
Set the link the dropbox of the trackers. Clicking the link and modal window is shown to display selectable trackers and their descriptions.
Also user can change the tracker he/she hope to use at modal window.
2. Show tracker’s description like tooltip when mouse overed on the tracker name, (at Tracker index page, Project overview page, and Project setting page).
I wonder this meets your request, but I hope mine would be any help.
Ivan Cenov wrote:
Where trackers descriptions to be shown? Possible places are:
- New issue form, next to the dropbox of the trackers - show the description of the currently selected tracker
- Project settings page, Information tab - on mouse hovering on the tracker names, or small icon next to each tracker name - clicking on it show baloon with tracker's description.
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 7 years ago
- File 01_add_description_to_trackers.patch 01_add_description_to_trackers.patch added
- File 02_select_and_apply_tracker.patch 02_select_and_apply_tracker.patch added
- File trackers_index.png trackers_index.png added
- File tracker_title.png tracker_title.png added
- File trackers_description_modal.png trackers_description_modal.png added
Akiko Takano, thanks for adding a patch to #5201. I find the patch and the functionality very useful and I was looking for a feature like this for some time. I took the liberty to rewrite it a little bit in order to be more consistent with the other implementations from Redmine.
Please find attached two patches:
1. 01_add_description_to_trackers.patch¶
- it shows the description for trackers as a new column in trackers#index (trackers_index.png)
- it uses the title attribute and the existing "field-description" class to show the description in Project overview page, Project setting page and Issue new/edit form (a similar implementation already exists for custom fields) (tracker_title.png)
- dt and dd tags to list the trackers description in the modal (trackers_description_modal.png)
2. 02_select_and_apply_tracker.patch¶
- moves the "apply" action to the tracker name, instead of the icon.
- closes the modal after tracker selection
- less javascript
I chose to make a new patch for this feature because it is a separate functionality.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Updated by Akiko Takano almost 7 years ago
Marius, thanks for pointing out to my patch, #5201.
it shows the description for trackers as a new column in trackers#index
I think this is better from the accessibility point of view, than description is displayed only when mouse over event fired :)
it uses the title attribute and the existing "field-description" class to show the description in Project overview page, Project setting page and Issue new/edit form (a similar implementation already exists for custom fields)
Personally, I think this is so useful for user who has project admin role, especially, in case he/she is not Redmine admin. Thanks.
Looking forward to be implemented!
Updated by Mischa The Evil almost 7 years ago
This seems to be a nice addition in line with r12397 and r14154.
One drawback could be that the integration of these patches, along with the already integrated r12397 and r14154, could make a consistent introduction of other descriptions (like requested in eg. #2389, #2568, #4768, #5026, #6964, #15787 and #20558) harder to achieve.
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 7 years ago
- Related to Feature #2389: Standard and custom issue fields should have a description/tooltip added
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 7 years ago
- Related to Feature #6964: Description field for role added
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 7 years ago
- Related to Feature #15787: Descriptions for issue categories added
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 7 years ago
- Related to Feature #20558: Add 'Description' field for groups added
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU about 6 years ago
- File 01-add-description-to-trackers_r1785.patch 01-add-description-to-trackers_r1785.patch added
- File 02-select-and-apply-tracker_r1785.patch 02-select-and-apply-tracker_r1785.patch added
Updated the patches to cleanly apply on the current trunk (r1785).
Mischa, agree with you, but this should not block us implement what can be done. I'm favour to take one by one (for ex: I've in plan to continue with description for statuses after this patch is added to the core).
Coming back to this ticket, I would like to propose this feature for the next major version from the following reasons:
- is an old request
- it has at least 4 duplicated issues
- is part of Redmine.org incomplete tickets vote count list(over 5 cas...
- it makes the onboarding process for the new users or public projects easier because they can find what means each tracker directly in the new issue form.
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU about 6 years ago
- Related to deleted (Feature #5201: Description field for Tracker setting)
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU about 6 years ago
- Has duplicate Feature #5201: Description field for Tracker setting added
Updated by Mizuki ISHIKAWA over 5 years ago
+1
The patch written by Marius ( #442#note-27 ) also work in my current environment ( r17600 ).
In order to display explanations for fields other than tracker, I think that it is better to consider a more versatile method.
However, this patch specialized for tracker is definitely beneficial for many people.
I hope this function will be implemented as soon as possible.
Updated by 
Updated by Go MAEDA over 5 years ago
- Target version changed from Candidate for next major release to 4.1.0
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang about 5 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Assignee set to Jean-Philippe Lang
- Resolution set to Fixed
Feature committed, thank you Marius for your patches.
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU about 5 years ago
- Status changed from Closed to Reopened
Jean-Philippe, you didn't commit patch 02-select-and-apply-tracker_r1785.patch from mistake or you don't find the functionality useful?
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang about 5 years ago
- Status changed from Reopened to Closed
It's committed, thanks for pointing this out.
Updated by Go MAEDA about 5 years ago
- Related to Defect #31239: Translation missing: text_select_apply_tracker added