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#6548 new enhancement

different types of ticket need different workflows

Reported by: anonymous Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: unscheduled
Component: ticket system Version: 0.11b1
Severity: normal Keywords: workflow
Cc: awatts@…, trac@…, leho@…, itamarost@…, marc31boss@…, Ryan J Ollos Branch:
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Description (last modified by Christian Boos)

Actions should be selectable based on the ticket type (different Workflows for different tickets.

This is becoming a frequent request, with clear usecases. The closest the current implementation will allow is to have a plugin provide a triage action that sets the next state based on the ticket type, so a new ticket would move to new_task, new_defect, etc., and the workflow graph would separate at that point.

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MultipleWorkflowPlugin.rar (4.7 KB ) - added by ermaltesi@… 15 years ago.
plugin that replace the ConfigurableTicketPlugin
redmine-workflow.png (24.9 KB ) - added by Marc Plano-Lesay <marc31boss@…> 12 years ago.
Related graphics: Redmine multiple workflow definition UI

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comment:3 by Christian Boos, 16 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Keywords: workflow added
Milestone: 0.110.12
Priority: highnormal
Status: newreopened
Summary: different type of ticketdifferent types of ticket need different workflows
Type: taskenhancement

Reusing this ticket for discussing the per-type workflow idea (TracWorkflow@17, reproduced in the description).

Instead of the 'new → new_task' scheme suggested by Eli, I think that we should instead provide a state "migration" table based on the type change.

I mean the ticket starts with an initial type, so why not select the appropriate workflow ([<type>-ticket-worflow]?) from the start. Then, at any given time, if the ticket type changes, a state migration will happen (ignoring the selected action), according to some mapping done in the .ini:

[ticket-type-workflow]
# old type . old state => new type . new state
defect.* = enhancement.*
enhancement.* = defect.*
*.new = task.new
*.closed = task.closed
*.* = task.inprogress

Which makes me think that at this point, a db table describing the mapping "in full"" with some appropriate UI in Trac admin would probably be a better idea. And of course, same could be said for the workflow itself, but now I digress ;-)

comment:4 by Christian Boos, 16 years ago

Milestone: 0.122.0

Not for 0.12.

Besides, the above suggestion could alternatively be done in a plugin which replaces the basic ConfigurableTicketWorkflow with a more advanced TicketTypeConfigurableWorkflow.

comment:5 by awatts <awatts@…>, 15 years ago

Cc: awatts@… added

To restrict actions to a particular ticket type first patch default_workflow.py

  • ticket/default_workflow.py

     
    186186                else:
    187187                    allowed = 1
    188188
    189                 ticket_type = action_info.get('ticket_type')
    190                 if ticket_type:
    191                     ticket_type = [x.strip() for x in ticket_type.split(',')]
    192                     if ticket.values['type'] not in ticket_type:
    193                         allowed = 0
    194 
    195189                if allowed:
    196190                    allowed_actions.append((action_info['default'],
    197191                                            action_name))

Then in trac.ini where your workflow actions are defined you can add .ticket_type to actions to restrict them one or more ticket types. Omitting this option leaves action behaving as it did before.

still_buggy = closed -> reopened
still_buggy.name = Still Buggy
still_buggy.ticket_type = defect
...

This means that the "Still Buggy" action will only appear on tickets where the type is defect. .ticket_type can be a comma separated list of ticket types.

Version 1, edited 7 years ago by Ryan J Ollos (previous) (next) (diff)

by ermaltesi@…, 15 years ago

Attachment: MultipleWorkflowPlugin.rar added

plugin that replace the ConfigurableTicketPlugin

comment:8 by ermaltesi@…, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

I risolved this creating a plugin called MultipleWorkflowPlugin, it works and i hope it doesn't have too much bugs

comment:9 by osimons, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened

If anything, it is a worksforme resolution as the project has not really fixed anything.

A bit too soon to close the ticket anyway, let's leave it open for now in case others want to chime in on the issue.

comment:10 by anonymous, 14 years ago

please write a few words on how to use this plugin. a simple example of ini should be ok.

comment:11 by Patrick May, 14 years ago

Just adding a note that this is a good feature.

There's a significant difference between the work of designing enhancements and reproducing bugs. Different people with different skillsets are involved, possibly funded from different budgets. So having a Multiple Workflow is attractive.

For example, on a current project the workflow is:

Feature Request:

  1. Request
  2. List requirements (text documents)
  3. Front end Design (visual comps)
  4. Implementation
  5. QA
  6. Deploy

Bug Report:

  1. Report
  2. Reproduce
  3. Fix
  4. QA
  5. Deploy

comment:12 by Patrick May <trac@…>, 14 years ago

Cc: trac@… added

comment:13 by Christian Boos, 14 years ago

Milestone: 2.0unscheduled

Milestone 2.0 deleted

comment:14 by lkraav <leho@…>, 14 years ago

Cc: leho@… added

comment:15 by Christian Boos, 14 years ago

Milestone: triagingunscheduled

Milestone triaging deleted

comment:16 by Itamar Ostricher, 13 years ago

Cc: itamarost@… added

comment:18 by Marc Plano-Lesay <marc31boss@…>, 12 years ago

Cc: marc31boss@… added

This would be very usefull. A great improvment would be having a matrix as the one you can find in Redmine, where you have differents matrices for each user role and ticket type.

by Marc Plano-Lesay <marc31boss@…>, 12 years ago

Attachment: redmine-workflow.png added

Related graphics: Redmine multiple workflow definition UI

comment:19 by dongping.xie.tud@…, 10 years ago

It would be a great feature. Then one can then use trac to manage routine tasks in the engineering too. (Like JIRA)

comment:20 by Ryan J Ollos, 10 years ago

Cc: Ryan J Ollos added

comment:21 by Ryan J Ollos, 9 years ago

Owner: Jonas Borgström removed
Status: reopenednew

comment:22 by Ryan J Ollos, 7 years ago

#9508 closed as a duplicate. If typed workflows are added, the allowed resolutions for each action that has a set_resolution operation can be specified in the set_resolution attribute (see workflow customization). See also #11856, which proposes to add a default_resolution attribute and to rename the set_resolution attribute.

Last edited 7 years ago by Ryan J Ollos (previous) (diff)

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