Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data

I'm looking at extending Redmine to support location data for a particular issue. Is there a way I can write a plugin that extends the "Issue" to include lat/lon so I can display a little Google Map with the issue's location? I'd also like to be able to use the "Issues" page to view all issues matching the filter(s) on a map.

I can deal with the maps part, but it didn't look like the Plugin API for Redmine allowed me to extend in just the right way.

Thanks in advance!

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RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by Brad Beattie almost 16 years ago

Yeah, I believe it's possible to write a plugin for what you describe.

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by Darryl Winder over 15 years ago

Ian

did you have any success with this ? We are attempting virtually the same thing at the moment.

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by ian dees over 15 years ago

I never really tried that hard to do this. How far along are you? What are you using it for?

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by Darryl Winder over 15 years ago

the requirement is to manage a database of safety hazards (which become redmine tickets) and have contractors acknowledge that they have read the item. we can pass a filtered ticket list to gmaps with a link back from each pin to the relevant ticket for the acknowledgement and we can also create an hazard/issue by clicking on the map and filling in some basic details in a form but just proof of concept at this stage.

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by ian dees over 15 years ago

Cool. Did you implement it as a plugin or a does it sit on top of Redmine in another way?

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by Darryl Winder over 15 years ago

at the moment its a bit of a hack and a mixture of plugin and core patch. If the concept flies with the exec team presentation we would hope to do as much as possible in a plug in and then maybe try to beg a change in the redmine trunk if necessary. i think this mod would be generally interesting enough to contribute back to the community.

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by ian dees over 15 years ago

Did you just add location data to the issue object and add views to do CRUD operations on it?

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by Darryl Winder over 15 years ago

y - we also found its better to separately keep the entered address and the resolved (or entered) geo-loc as you get some funny effects from round tripping

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by ian dees over 15 years ago

Can you give me a pointer for the correct spot to start? I don't really understand the plug-in API's method of extending the core models (like the Issue).

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by ian dees almost 15 years ago

Darryl, did you manage to finish your changes to include location data? I am just now thinking about starting this up again.

RE: Extending Redmine's "Issue" to Add Location Data - Added by Michael Greifeneder over 13 years ago

Any information about a progress available? Maybe a link to a ticket, source code, plugin?

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