Customize "New issue" form and "overview"

Added by Bernhard Bitterer over 7 years ago

Hello there,

I'm working now some time with Redmine, but I'm new to Redmine administration. I just took over from a colleague and my first task is to customize the "New issue" form and the "overview" of the issue for some projects/trackers.

"Overview" in existing issues:
At the moment at the top there is some "general information" like "Status", "Assignee", "Priority", "Start date" and so on followed by the description itself and at the bottom the section for "subtasks" and "related issues". What I would like to achieve is to get some section or paragraph into the "general information" to group and place similar information/custom fields in the same area.

"New issue" form:
I'm already into custom fields and so on. I know how to create one and make it available to a project or role. The only problem to me is: As there are some needed changes and new fields to add, the new fields added as the last field at the end of the form. So for example, in a form I have a field "Event date (year)" and like to add "Event date (month)" the new one is placed at completely different place. So it's very hard to follow a good way if someone has to enter the month somewhere else. So it would be enough to be able to set the order of the fields.

Are there some plugins which help me to do that, or do I need to get something else, or is this just impossible?

At the moment we use Redmine 3.3.0 stable.

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RE: Customize "New issue" form and "overview" - Added by Mischa The Evil over 7 years ago

I think you can achieve what you need (at least partly) — without additional plugins or patches — by simply reordering the custom fields, since the order in the "issue overview" (in Redmine terminology, the issue show view) and the new issue form is determined by the order of the custom fields in the custom fields administration settings (at host.tld/custom_fields).
Pre 3.3.0 this reordering works with four individual up/down/top/bottom buttons per row, while in (post) 3.3.0 release(s) you can reorder using drag'n'drop handlers (green up/down icon on the right). This drag'n'drop mechanism is introduced in Redmine 3.3.0 via #12909.

What you obviously can't do using the reordering of custom fields (or otherwise using the vanilla Redmine core) is mixing the order of custom fields among the order of standard fields. Custom fields are always rendered after the standard fields (but above the description and subsequent "subtasks" and "related issues" sections) and standard fields cannot be reordered in any way. One exception to this is introduced with #21705 for not-yet-released Redmine 3.4.0. See that issue for the details about it.

HTH. Please let me know if you have additional questions.

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