| Description | We're using Mantis to track commissions and contributions to a monthly magazine. In effect every month we start a new project which represents a new issue of the magazine, and into that project we have to load the same custom fields and other things each time.
It would be far easier to have a "Copy another projects settings" button or option. That would enable us to set up one project (let's call it "MasterTemplate") in which we define all the settings. When a new project is created, during creation we could have it copy all the settings from the template, or after it's created we could "copy settings from another project".
As it is at present, Mantis seems to be set up for long term projects, this feature enhancement suggestion would greatly help those who want to use it for frequent new projects, or very similar projects that run concurrently. We often have 2 magazines on the go at once, and occasionally a "special issue" (maybe a summer special) as well. Either way we're always tracking similar stuff that requires the same custom fields etc. |
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clone-project.diff (4,408 bytes)
This patch adds the feature "Clone Project". It consists of:
- two new web pages:
- manage_proj_clone_page.php : page where name of new project and project to be cloned is entered
- manage_proj_clone.php : page that executes the cloning and redirects to manage_proj_page.php
- the modification of 3 files
- manage_project_page.php : added button "Clone Project"
- core/project_api.php : added new API function project_clone
- lang/strings_english.txt : added 4 new string variables
The patch below applies to mantis 1.0.0rc4, but should be applicable to 1.0.0rc5 or cvs head as well.
-Mark Dettinger <dma@zuehlke.com>
diff -r -c mantis-1.0.0rc4/core/project_api.php mantis-1.0.0dma/core/project_api.php
*** mantis-1.0.0rc4/core/project_api.php Tue Jun 28 22:22:54 2005
--- mantis-1.0.0dma/core/project_api.php Thu Dec 22 13:26:38 2005
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--- 234,296 ----
}
# --------------------
+ # Clone a project
+ # Parameters: name of new project, id of the project to be cloned
+ #
+ function project_clone( $p_name, $p_project_id) {
+ if ( is_blank( $p_name ) ) {
+ trigger_error( ERROR_PROJECT_NAME_INVALID, ERROR );
+ }
+ project_ensure_name_unique( $p_name );
+
+ $t_project = project_get_row( $p_project_id );
+ $t_project_table = config_get( 'mantis_project_table' );
+ $c_name = db_prepare_string( $p_name );
+ $c_status = $t_project['status'];
+ $c_enabled = $t_project['enabled'];
+ $c_view_state = $t_project['view_state'];
+ $c_file_path = $t_project['file_path'];
+ $c_description = $t_project['description'];
+
+ $query = "INSERT INTO $t_project_table
+ ( name, status, enabled, view_state, file_path, description )
+ VALUES
+ ('$c_name', '$c_status', '$c_enabled',
+ '$c_view_state', '$c_file_path', '$c_description')";
+ db_query( $query );
+
+ $t_new_project_id = db_insert_id($t_project_table);
+
+ # copy users
+ project_copy_users( $t_new_project_id, $p_project_id );
+
+ # add categories
+ $rows = category_get_all_rows( $p_project_id );
+ foreach ( $rows as $row ) {
+ $t_category = $row['category'];
+ category_add( $t_new_project_id, $t_category );
+ }
+
+ # add versions
+ $rows = version_get_all_rows( $p_project_id);
+ foreach ( $rows as $row ) {
+ $t_version = $row['version'];
+ version_add( $t_new_project_id, $t_version);
+ }
+
+ # link custom fields
+ $t_custom_field_ids = custom_field_get_linked_ids( $p_project_id);
+ foreach ( $t_custom_field_ids as $t_custom_field_id ) {
+ custom_field_link( $t_custom_field_id, $t_new_project_id);
+ $t_sequence = custom_field_get_sequence( $t_custom_field_id, $p_project_id );
+ custom_field_set_sequence( $t_custom_field_id, $t_new_project_id, $t_sequence);
+ }
+
+ # return the id of the new project
+ return $t_new_project_id;
+ }
+
+ # --------------------
# Delete a project
function project_delete( $p_project_id ) {
$t_email_notifications = config_get( 'enable_email_notification' );
diff -r -c mantis-1.0.0rc4/lang/strings_english.txt mantis-1.0.0dma/lang/strings_english.txt
*** mantis-1.0.0rc4/lang/strings_english.txt Sun Aug 7 16:42:04 2005
--- mantis-1.0.0dma/lang/strings_english.txt Wed Dec 21 16:52:03 2005
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$s_make_public = 'Make Public';
$s_create_new_project_link = 'Create New Project';
+ $s_clone_project_link = 'Clone Project';
+ $s_clone_project_title = 'Clone Project';
+ $s_clone_project_new = 'New Project';
+ $s_clone_project_old = 'Clone of';
$s_login_link = 'Login';
Only in mantis-1.0.0dma: manage_proj_clone.php
Only in mantis-1.0.0dma: manage_proj_clone_page.php
diff -r -c mantis-1.0.0rc4/manage_proj_page.php mantis-1.0.0dma/manage_proj_page.php
*** mantis-1.0.0rc4/manage_proj_page.php Mon May 16 15:56:06 2005
--- mantis-1.0.0dma/manage_proj_page.php Wed Dec 21 16:55:01 2005
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# Check the user's global access level before allowing project creation
if ( access_has_global_level ( config_get( 'create_project_threshold' ) ) ) {
print_button( 'manage_proj_create_page.php', lang_get( 'create_new_project_link' ) );
+ print_button( 'manage_proj_clone_page.php', lang_get( 'clone_project_link' ) );
}
?>
</td>
manage_proj_clone.php.txt (1,233 bytes)
<?php
# Mantis - a php based bugtracking system
# Copyright (C) 2000 - 2002 Kenzaburo Ito - kenito@300baud.org
# Copyright (C) 2002 - 2004 Mantis Team - mantisbt-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
# This program is distributed under the terms and conditions of the GPL
# See the README and LICENSE files for details
# --------------------------------------------------------
# $Id: manage_proj_clone.php dma@zuehlke.com
# --------------------------------------------------------
?>
<?php
require_once( 'core.php' );
$t_core_path = config_get( 'core_path' );
require_once( $t_core_path.'project_hierarchy_api.php' );
?>
<?php
access_ensure_global_level( config_get( 'create_project_threshold' ) );
$f_name = gpc_get_string( 'name' );
$f_other_project_id = gpc_get_string( 'other_project_id' );
project_clone( $f_name, $f_other_project_id);
$t_redirect_url = 'manage_proj_page.php';
html_page_top1();
html_meta_redirect( $t_redirect_url );
html_page_top2();
?>
<br />
<div align="center">
<?php
echo lang_get( 'operation_successful' ) . '<br />';
print_bracket_link( $t_redirect_url, lang_get( 'proceed' ) );
?>
</div>
<?php html_page_bottom1( __FILE__ ) ?>
manage_proj_clone_page.php.txt (1,790 bytes)
<?php
# Mantis - a php based bugtracking system
# Copyright (C) 2000 - 2002 Kenzaburo Ito - kenito@300baud.org
# Copyright (C) 2002 - 2004 Mantis Team - mantisbt-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
# This program is distributed under the terms and conditions of the GPL
# See the README and LICENSE files for details
# --------------------------------------------------------
# $Id: manage_proj_clone_page dma@zuehlke.com
# --------------------------------------------------------
?>
<?php require_once( 'core.php' ) ?>
<?php
access_ensure_global_level( config_get( 'create_project_threshold' ) );
?>
<?php html_page_top1() ?>
<?php html_page_top2() ?>
<?php print_manage_menu( 'manage_proj_create_page.php' ) ?>
<?php
$f_parent_id = gpc_get( 'parent_id', null );
?>
<br />
<div align="center">
<form method="get" action="manage_proj_clone.php">
<table class="width75" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td class="form-title" colspan="2">
<?php
echo lang_get( 'clone_project_title' );
?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-1">
<td class="category" width="25%">
<span class="required">*</span><?php echo lang_get( 'clone_project_new' )?>
</td>
<td width="75%">
<input type="text" name="name" size="64" maxlength="128" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-2">
<td class="category">
<?php echo lang_get( 'clone_project_old' ) ?>
</td>
<td class="left">
<select name="other_project_id">
<?php print_project_option_list( null, false, $f_project_id ); ?>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="center" colspan="2">
<input type="submit" class="button" value="<?php echo lang_get( 'clone_project_link' ) ?>" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
<?php html_page_bottom1( __FILE__ ) ?>
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