0010140: Can not define a custom field that the value of the field is unduplicated

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0010140	mantisbt	custom fields	public	2009-02-18 00:25	2009-02-18 05:33

Reporter	nic_pei	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	1.1.1

Summary	0010140: Can not define a custom field that the value of the field is unduplicated
Description	I've defined a custom field named 'TaskCode', and the datatype is String. I want to set the value of 'TaskCode' is unduplicated, but there is not advanced setting for this regulation. eg: When there is value of TaskCode :'T-001', I count not insert into database table 'T-001' again. How could I add a warning for this operation?
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giallu 2009-02-18 03:20 reporter ~0020876	We probably need to improve the code to support that. Anyway, I'm just curious why you want a TaskCode at all. That looks like an unique ID for the bug report and well, we have already an unique ID which is the bug number :)

nic_pei 2009-02-18 04:09 reporter ~0020878	The field taskcode is not a real business field name. I found that all the custom fields are saved in mantis_custom_field_table ,and their values are saved in mantis_custom_field_string_table. For our project ,we need copy issue from Gemini to mantis, so there is a GeminiNo for the reporter to fill in. It's just like an unique ID(As you said in your last note) . The storage structure of custom field is special ,so I could not set a unique field manually.

giallu 2009-02-18 05:33 reporter ~0020879	Ok. thanks for the details :) I think there is some work being done on the custom fields area, but I don't know what the status of that is.