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Global Categories Requirements
Author: John Reese
Introduction
Categories in Mantis are specific to a single project, and can only be used by issues in that project. But there are many times, especially in organizations with many different projects, that it would be very useful to have not only shared sets of categories, but inherited categories from parent projects as well. This would greatly simplify and automate multiple project administration.
Current Approach
In the current Mantis system, all shared categories must either be created or copied between projects and subprojects by hand. Modifying one category means manually modifying every other project that category exists in to reflect the same change. There is also no way to handle global categories other than to copy categories from one project to every other project. Adding a new project or subproject later means more work to copy categories to it as well.
Database Changes
Configuration Changes
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