0009826: Single project user should default to the project, not All Projects - MantisBT - Signup temporarily disabled due to spam

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0009826	mantisbt	bugtracker	public	2008-11-17 15:15	2019-01-01 07:47

Reporter	olegos	Assigned To	dregad
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	1.2.0a2
Target Version	1.2.12	Fixed in Version	1.2.12

Summary	0009826: Single project user should default to the project, not All Projects
Description	Apparently if a user has access to only one project, the project selection box at top right isn't shown anymore in version 1.2 (it was there in 1.0.8 and I believe 1.1.3). That's good (less confusing to the user), except for the following problem. The View Issues screen seems to default to All Projects selection. The categories shown include [project], and the menu shows links appropriate for All Projects. For example, if a user is globally Viewer, but Reporter on the project, the "Report Issue" link isn't shown. (In prior versions, I told my users to select a project from the project selection box to be able to report issues. Confusing, but better than not being able to report issues at all.) This is important, because many of my Reporters have lost ability to report new issues. They can still do it if they go into one of existing bugs -- but that's even more confusing and cumbersome (if there are no open bugs, if it's a new project, etc.)
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related to	0015721	closed	grangeway	Functionality to consider porting to master-2.0.x
related to	0016337	closed	dregad	Creating the first project on a fresh install causes error 2800
related to	0010296	closed	cproensa	single project is not selected
has duplicate	0013234	closed	atrol	Can't report issue when no project selected
has duplicate	0011322	closed	dregad	incorrect rights with only 1 authorized project
has duplicate	0012673	closed	dregad	User not found in "Assigned to" list
related to	0014268	closed	cproensa	"Report Issue" is missing if the user has access to only private projects, but has not selected a project from the dropdown.
related to	0015200	closed	vboctor	Anonymous access is broken
related to	0025110	closed	cproensa	Token error when login with a newly created user

olegos 2008-11-17 15:16 reporter ~0019919 Last edited: 2008-11-17 15:24	By the way, even selecting the project as default in My Account : Preferences (where both the project and All Projects are still shown) doesn't help. Edit: Actually it seems that I had to logout & log back in for the default project in Preferences to take effect. So maybe that's a good work-around for now.

Chi-Yu 2010-04-09 08:48 reporter ~0025089 Last edited: 2010-04-09 08:51	This one is still around in 1.2.0 and the easiest way to fix it is probably to bring back the project selection box. Else, you'd have to check if the user is still assigned to more than 1 project and change the default project if that is not the case. But this would also mean that someone who is assigned to 2 projects and has "All Projects" as default would be force-switched to project 1 when he/she is removed from project 2 and it won't revert back to "All Projects" when you assign him/her to project 3. Another solution is to display the project selection box if: the user is assigned to just 1 project AND the default project is currently set to "All Projects" That way, people who don't know about account preferences can't get "stuck" on the "All Projects" view. This could avoid some confusion. This "bug" causes a lot of confusion in very restrictive environments where all projects are private and the default global access level is just "viewer".

tloudev 2011-08-12 07:28 reporter ~0029469	Sorry for duplicating, I didn't find it :-( Will anybody do something with it?

marcovtwout 2012-01-18 06:39 reporter ~0030932	bump For us this is a common case (client gets guest account and submitter access for one project). They are now stuck, but there are two possible workarounds: Set project as default project and relog Add to url bar: /bug_report_page.php The current situation is not acceptable.

dregad 2012-09-10 09:34 developer ~0032818	This should be fixed now. Testing and feedback would be appreciated (please download a nightly build starting tomorrow or get the patch from github)

grangeway 2013-04-05 17:56 reporter ~0036144	Marking as 'acknowledged' not resolved/closed to track that change gets ported to master-2.0.x branch

MantisBT: master-1.2.x b1a1bbae 2012-09-10 01:56 dregad Details Diff	User with access to single project defaults to it, not all projects Since 1.2, if a user has access to only one project, the project selection box at top right isn't shown. This was causing issues as new users accounts have 'All projects' as their default: - user can't report issues (no link for all projects) - categories displayed are prefixed with [project] Until this commit, users had to define their (single) project as default using preferences to work around the problem; this is no longer needed. Function html_login_info() now sets the current project as appropriate if user has only access to a single one, and also defines that as the default. The account preferences page has also been modified to only include 'All projects' in the selection list when user has more than one project available. Fixes 0009826, 0014268		Affected Issues 0009826, 0014268, 0016337
	mod - account_prefs_inc.php		Diff File
	mod - core/html_api.php		Diff File
MantisBT: master cfa022bc 2012-09-10 01:56 dregad Details Diff	User with access to single project defaults to it, not all projects Since 1.2, if a user has access to only one project, the project selection box at top right isn't shown. This was causing issues as new users accounts have 'All projects' as their default: - user can't report issues (no link for all projects) - categories displayed are prefixed with [project] Until this commit, users had to define their (single) project as default using preferences to work around the problem; this is no longer needed. Function html_login_info() now sets the current project as appropriate if user has only access to a single one, and also defines that as the default. The account preferences page has also been modified to only include 'All projects' in the selection list when user has more than one project available. Fixes 0009826, 0014268		Affected Issues 0009826, 0014268, 0016337
	mod - account_prefs_inc.php		Diff File
	mod - core/html_api.php		Diff File