Redmine

I did create a Feature issue for this : https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530

Of course first start is to read existing documentation on custom fields ;-) ( https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineCustomFields )

There a 173 features openned for custom fields, this is a somehow too much to be reviewed one by one :

https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&set_filter=1&sort=id%3Adesc&f%5B%5D=status_id&op%5Bstatus_id%5D=o&f%5B%5D=tracker_id&op%5Btracker_id%5D=%3D&v%5Btracker_id%5D%5B%5D=2&f%5B%5D=category_id&op%5Bcategory_id%5D=%3D&v%5Bcategory_id%5D%5B%5D=14&f%5B%5D=&c%5B%5D=tracker&c%5B%5D=status&c%5B%5D=subject&c%5B%5D=updated_on&c%5B%5D=category&group_by=&t%5B%5D=

Current prototype status preview.

group_category_layout : a new field that contains a string. It is used as legend for grouped items. Work in progress

fields with a group_category_layout set and same group_category_layout are grouped altogether.
groups are ordered using lexicographic ordering on group_category_layout string.

Attached an example for an Issue with some grouped fields.

Same request already exist, issue https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530 was updated with link to https://www.redmine.org/issues/35281.

This topic should be discussed to converge to a viable and common solution.

There was no update on this from issues and i have limited time to actualy deliver this feature.
I then will do it as a plugin ( if possible ) and publish it.
Having a working plugin to play with might be a starting point for further discussions.

I did push a prototype in https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530

idea is to reuse custom field as a category to group other custom fields, custom fields have a new attribute for their parent category.
From here we could create a 'group' or 'layout' type to really dedicate them. currently any kind of custom field can be used as a group.
An interest to do this is to support display, info popup of group and improvement in i18n of custom fields without need of extra code.

Somehow can be used as a very restricted version of structured fields like feature as https://www.redmine.org/issues/38957.

Another feature is https://www.redmine.org/issues/40084 that is dedicated to insert static information.

If integrated this kind of custom field could be used as group category.

I took time to port https://www.redmine.org/issues/30919 in current master branch to review how to converge with https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530.

Thanks to Orange sponsoring, development of this feature proceed further.

here is a plugin mixing :

- https://www.redmine.org/issues/39530
- https://www.redmine.org/issues/40084
- https://www.redmine.org/issues/30919

plugin will be attached on https://www.redmine.org/issues/30919

Adding possiblity to change full_width_layout for a group so by project and tracker. some pending work is on github https://github.com/artlog/redmine/ .

Hi philippe lhardy,

I developed the following plugin which is inspired from #30919 patches by Frederico Camara.
Hopefully, this plugin matches for your use case.
https://github.com/gtt-project/redmine_custom_fields_groups
https://github.com/gtt-project/redmine_custom_fields_groups/blob/main/lib/redmine_custom_fields_groups/patches/issues_helper_patch.rb#L10-L12
Just FYI

Hi Ko Nagase

Thanks for coding it and adding this information here.
As you can read in this topic thread, i already did code a plugin and merged extensions to it since i was not aware of your work.
Collecting implementations and trying to move in a common direction is a good step and will be helpful for redmine community.

Kind Regards

There was no update on this from issues and i have limited time to actualy deliver this feature.

Hi @Ariellffser

You might want to get a look to this branch : https://github.com/artlog/redmine/tree/attribute_category_plugin