0007020: Custom field can become a parameter in an HTML link

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0007020	mantisbt	custom fields	public	2006-05-03 10:51	2012-03-05 05:54

Reporter	kwilliams	Assigned To	atrol
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	1.0.0rc5

Summary	0007020: Custom field can become a parameter in an HTML link
Description	Is it possible to include a special type of custom field that, once populated in an issue, becomes a parameter in an HTML link. This way, for example, one can hyperlink Mantis issues to other data/docs in web-based databases.
Tags	admin

ericb 2006-05-03 14:40 reporter ~0012775	Great idea. I would use that too to reference documents in other systems. For example, hardware uses a custom defect tracking system. Given a standard ULR I could just append the defect number that the user entered to the URL. The same would work for specification and memo systems.

silfreed 2007-05-29 14:25 reporter ~0014651	Vote +1; This would be a great feature for linking to other bug systems or other projects' bug trackers. I currently have the situation where I have my own mantis installation for my software but bugs are being filed in Debian's bug tracker for bugs in my software; I'd like to open bugs in my database and link to the bug reports on Debian's bug tracker. Perhaps this could be resolved for all custom fields by adding a "Display As" selection that could be: raw value, URL. When URL is selected, a new option could appear to enter the URL to create. By separating the value from the display we can still search on the raw value easily but display the value in a different format.