Provide a list of users a ticket can be assigned to

[dallmeier@…]

It would be nice if trac could provide the user with a list of people a ticket can be assigned to. What I would like to see is drop-down list with all users (or a list of all peoples tickets have been assigned to in the past) in the Assign to: field when I enter a new ticket.

[cboos]

See TracTickets#Assign-toasDrop-DownList.

However, this comes up so often I wonder if we shouldn't consider make that the default instead of the free text input form. The situation were known and valid users would be required for the "Assign to:" field seems to be more frequent than the one where any username can be given.

What do you think?

[sid]

Just as some feedback, I have 3 active Trac installations and I have the drop-down user list feature enabled on all of them.

[ThurnerRupert]

we'd prefer a slightly enhanced version, as we have technical user id's which users do not easily remember.

putting a nick and/or the username in the dropdown, like suggested in #3737 would be an ideal solution, like

...
  <option value="userid">nick, username</option>
...

[ThurnerRupert]

the other possibility would be to have the login changed/mapped i guess by mapping a technical userid to a nick ... then the rest of trac would be unchanged. what do you think?

[cboos]

Replying to ThurnerRupert:

the other possibility would be to have the login changed/mapped i guess by mapping a technical userid to a nick ...

Wouldn't the already existing "Full name:" information be enough?

[eblot]

Replying to cboos:

Replying to ThurnerRupert:

the other possibility would be to have the login changed/mapped i guess by mapping a technical userid to a nick ...

Wouldn't the already existing "Full name:" information be enough?

I think this discussion should be moved to #4210 which is a request for this very topic, or close #4210 as a duplicate.

Maybe the default settings could be related to the "openness" of an installation. There've been already another discussion about having more restriction about the default anonymous permissions: perhaps tracadmin initenv should prompt for some kind of security level (several Linux packages offer this kind of level selection):

• open system (anonymous can view everything, assignee is a free text field
• medium-level/corporate system (less permissions for anonymous, assignee is a drop-down box)
• enhanced security system (no permissions but for the admin)
• ...

Anyway, I'm myself off-topic. Maybe we should close this ticket, and open a new one...

[anonymous]

Ticket 4210 is not a duplicate. It should not be closed based-on this thread. 4266 has touched on the enhancment request of 4210 through the discussion --- but the topics are only somewhat related.

[sid]

Agreed, #4210 is not a duplicate of this ticket (only of ThurnerRupert's comments).

The original request combined with comment:1 is the meat of this ticket. I'm +1 for making the drop-down user assign list the default for Trac.

[anonymous]

Replying to eblot:

Replying to cboos:

Replying to ThurnerRupert:

the other possibility would be to have the login changed/mapped i guess by mapping a technical userid to a nick ...

Wouldn't the already existing "Full name:" information be enough?

Yes. That's what I'd hope for. The existing full name appearing in place of id. :)

I think this discussion should be moved to #4210 which is a request for this very topic, or close #4210 as a duplicate.

Maybe the default settings could be related to the "openness" of an installation. There've been already another discussion about having more restriction about the default anonymous permissions: perhaps tracadmin initenv should prompt for some kind of security level (several Linux packages offer this kind of level selection):

• open system (anonymous can view everything, assignee is a free text field
• medium-level/corporate system (less permissions for anonymous, assignee is a drop-down box)
• enhanced security system (no permissions but for the admin)
• ...

Anyway, I'm myself off-topic. Maybe we should close this ticket, and open a new one...

[anonymous]

Replying to cboos:

Replying to ThurnerRupert:

the other possibility would be to have the login changed/mapped i guess by mapping a technical userid to a nick ...

Wouldn't the already existing "Full name:" information be enough?

only if it can be used also an input, i.e. when assigning tickets, milestones, queries, cc. maybe #3737 can be seen as basic version fulfilling 90%, and this ticket is the "luxory version" by showing real user names?

[cboos]

Ok, letting aside the discussion about the nick (see #3737 for that), I propose that we make the "Assign-to as Drop-Down List" the default behavior for 0.11, as proposed in comment:1 and supported by sid.

[dbrewer]

I love this feature, but I have a further suggestion. Currently, the only users that show up in the list are those with TICKET_MODIFY permissions. This doesn't work for our shop because we only allow want certain people to close tickets -- QA staff and project managers. The people who are doing most of the work on tickets don't have permission to close them, they just assign them to those that do.

I would suggest that there be a separate permission that relates to this -- something like TICKET_ASSIGNEE or similar. TICKET_MODIFY could also provide this permission by default. Only users with this permission could be assigned to tickets or would show up in the list.

[ThurnerRupert]

this could be also done with a bandbox widget, isn't it? see #5378, and ​zkoss userguide, bandboxes.

imo the best would be to allow:

• search in users
• add new/freetext

then the switch in track conf to select dropdown or freetext would be obsolete.

[cboos]

Replying to dbrewer:

I would suggest that there be a separate permission that relates to this -- something like TICKET_ASSIGNEE or similar.

Right. There are numerous voices saying it's not that obvious to get that list right, so before making this the default, we should perhaps improve things a bit in this respect. See also #4245.

[anonymous]

now there is ​th:AutocompleteUsersPlugin solving most of this.

[cboos]

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Replying to anonymous:

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