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hey there,

I'm trying to develop a plugin which adds a new column "archived" to the issue_categories table (see #16188).

so far wtih very poor ruby/rails knowledge, I managed to add a new column to the table, wrote a migration and patched the IssueCategoriesControll and I'm now able to archive / unarchive issue categories in the project settings tab (in an overridden view).

next thing I want to do is to filter the issue_categories dropdown in the issues/_attributes.html.erb view based on whether the category is archived or not. well, the goal should be to display only the categroies which aren't archived ;-)

this is the part of the view which renders the issue_categories dropdown:

<% if @issue.safe_attribute?('category_id') && @issue.project.issue_categories.any? %>
<p><%= f.select :category_id, (@issue.project.issue_categories.collect {|c| [c.name, c.id]}), :include_blank => true, :required => @issue.required_attribute?('category_id') %>
<%= link_to(image_tag('add.png', :style => 'vertical-align: middle;'),
            new_project_issue_category_path(@issue.project),
            :remote => true,
            :method => 'get',
            :title => l(:label_issue_category_new),
            :tabindex => 200) if User.current.allowed_to?(:manage_categories, @issue.project) %></p>
<% end %>

The second line is the important one.

Categories are selected based on the Project model, as far as I understood.

class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
  ...
  has_many :issue_categories, :dependent => :delete_all, :order => "#{IssueCategory.table_name}.name" 

So here come my questions:

1. is there a way to "filter" the output of (@issue.project.issue_categories.collect {|c| [c.name, c.id]}) depending on whether the "archived" column is set to "false"?
2. or do I have to override the view with my own and add a new method to output the active categories?
   • which Model or Controller do I have to patch then? Issue or Project?
   • and is it then possible to call the functions archived? / unarchived? which I managed to patch in the IssueCategoriesController?
   • or do I need new methods?

any help appreciated!
thanks :)

cheers,
toby