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Feature #2708

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Require Category

Added by Brandon Dixon about 15 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

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2009-02-10

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As of now I am using Redmine to monitor corporate IT. I have one main project and multiple sub-projects (i.e networking, software, etc.) that users can post tickets to. The problem I have with this is that it doesn't seem like its a correct way of doing things. I would like to have one project and then have users assign their tickets to categories (i.e networking, software, etc.). The problem now is that users submit a ticket, but since its a category is not required users won't always fill it out. This leaves me going back and fixing the mistakes. Is there a way to make the Category value required?

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_form.rhtml (3.11 KB) _form.rhtml	app\views\issues\_form.rhtml	Nanda P, 2009-04-17 21:09
issue.rb (11.5 KB) issue.rb		Nanda P, 2009-04-17 21:09
_form.rhtml (3.16 KB) _form.rhtml		Brandon Dixon, 2009-06-30 16:51

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Related to Redmine - Feature #703: Configurable required fields per tracker/status/role

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Jean-Philippe Lang

2008-02-21

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Updated by Eric Davis about 15 years ago

I don't use categories that much so if this feature is implemented, making category required should be an optional setting.

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Updated by Nanda P about 15 years ago

We have 10+ Projects. For one of project, the manager wants category field as Required.

As Brandon said "When users submit a ticket, they forget to fill the category out". It is time consuming to go through the description of those tickets & fill the category later.

Another idea: If we can take out the Category field. I can add a custom field called category ;) & make it Required.

I am looking for a temp fix, until we find a solution.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Nanda

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Updated by Peter Edstrom about 15 years ago

See also #703 and #582 for slightly different takes on this.

We use inbound email, where a category can be defaulted. This is great because the owner of the category is alerted when a new issue is created. When issues are created in the tool, however, the category is not required and thus no one is guaranteed to be notified of the new issue.

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Updated by Nanda P about 15 years ago

File _form.rhtml _form.rhtml added
File issue.rb issue.rb added

app\views\issues\_form.rhtml -> Change in line # 27

validates_presence_of :subject, :description, :priority, :category, :project, :tracker, :author, :status

app\models\issue.rb -> Change in line # 48

validates_presence_of :subject, :description, :priority, :category, :project, :tracker, :author, :status

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Updated by Nanda P about 15 years ago

Nanda Palaniswamy wrote:

appviewsissues_form.rhtml -> Change in line # 27
[...]

appmodelsissue.rb -> Change in line # 48
[...]

I modified the above files to make the category as Required field.

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Updated by Paul Voelker almost 15 years ago

I think giving the option to require the category field would be fantastic. This would be great for those who make use of the auto-assignment functionality of categories.

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Updated by Brandon Dixon almost 15 years ago

File _form.rhtml _form.rhtml added

I am running the latest version (0.8.4) and it looks like some things were changed.

This works:
app\models\issue.rb -> Change in line # 48

validates_presence_of :subject, :description, :priority, :category, :project, :tracker, :author, :status

The first mod to the form on the other hand does not work. It now looks like this:
app\views\issues\_form.rhtml -> Change in line # 28

<p><%= f.select :category_id, (@project.issue_categories.collect {|c| [c.name, c.id]}), :include_blank => true, :required => true %>

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Updated by Nanda P over 14 years ago

Brandon,

The patch is not working with trunk version (Redmine 0.8.7.devel.3131)

When you get a chance could you please have a look?

Thanks in Advance
Nanda

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Updated by Nanda P about 14 years ago

Any update on this?

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#10

Updated by Jeremy Walker almost 14 years ago

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Updated by Chad S over 13 years ago

I have a fix for this guys that works with 1.0.x (which i assume would work with 0.9.x, but i have not tested it.)

Follow it as you normally would with one exception...
The edit to this file....:
app/views/issues/_form.rhtml
should instead be done to this file:
app/views/issues/_attributes.rhtml

I have this working after upgrading from 0.8.x to 1.0.x. Reply here if you need help getting this working.

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Updated by Patrick Sherman over 13 years ago

Chad, how did you do?

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#13

Updated by Anonymous over 13 years ago

How about extending required yes/no to all fields in an issue?
Some of them are already required on system level.
Given the fact that you can set required yes/no on custom fields, this seems like a logical step.

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