Adding new custom field OUTSIDE of ticket properties

[Connie]

Hi, I am just wondering if somebody can help me with this. I am trying to add 2 custom fields called "URL" and "Steps to Reproduce" OUTSIDE of the "Ticket Properties" form. (which means I cannot just add the field through [ticket_custom] in the ini file as suggested here: ​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracTicketsCustomFields). This is what I have done so far:

1) Copied the newticket.cs and ticket.cs files from the \share\trac\templates directory to my project directory (\my-project\templates) and added those two fields as follows:

<tr>

<th><label for="url">URL:</label></th> <td class="fullrow" colspan="3"><input type="text" value="<?cs

var:ticket.url ?>" id="url" name="url" size="70" /></td>

</tr> <tr>

<th><label for="reproduce">Steps to Reproduce:</label></th> <td class="fullrow" colspan="3"> <textarea id = "reproduce" name="reproduce" class="wikitext" rows="10" cols = "68" /> <?cs var:ticket.reproduce ?></textarea></td>

</tr>

My question is do I need to create some kind of script so that these custom fields will actually be saved in the database? They are being added to the UI, but they are really not doing anything. Help!

Thanks Connie

[hyuga <hyugaricdeau@…>]

Yes, Trac would have to know that the fields exist. The CS templates just display things—Trac can't divine from them added functionality, so this isn't really a problem with Trac.

Here's something you could do though:

• First, create the custom fields following the instructions in TracTicketsCustomFields
• Then, apply the following patch:

  trac/ticket/web_ui.py

  @@ -164 +164 @@
               name = field['name']
               del field['name']
               if name in ('summary', 'reporter', 'description', 'type', 'status',
  -                        'resolution'):
  +                        'resolution', 'url', 'reproduce'):
                   field['skip'] = True
               elif name == 'owner':
                   field['label'] = 'Assign to'

• Now you can modify the templates however it was you were trying to do. Bear in mind that in ticket.cs you will also have to ticket box itself (<div id="ticket">) to display the values of those fields somewhere.

[hyuga <hyugaricdeau@…>]

Sorry, the full diff should be:

trac/ticket/web_ui.py

@@ -164 +164 @@
             name = field['name']
             del field['name']
             if name in ('summary', 'reporter', 'description', 'type', 'status',
-                        'resolution'):
+                        'resolution', 'url', 'reproduce'):
                 field['skip'] = True
             elif name == 'owner':
                 field['label'] = 'Assign to'
@@ -596 +596 @@
             name = field['name']
             del field['name']
             if name in ('summary', 'reporter', 'description', 'type', 'status',
-                        'resolution', 'owner'):
+                        'resolution', 'owner', 'url', 'reproduce'):
                 field['skip'] = True
             req.hdf['ticket.fields.' + name] = field

You could also add code directly to the templates to skip those fields, but I think this way might be easier.

[Connie]

Screenshot of VIEW TICKET and PREVIEW TICKET page

[anonymous]

This works out perfect! Thanks! Please ignore my screen-shot. I think your 2nd posting fixed my problem! Many thanks!