0036526: Removal of predefined field "Reproducibility" does not take effect for administrator user - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0036526	mantisbt	custom fields	public	2025-10-23 02:44	2025-10-24 09:35

Reporter	andreas.muesing	Assigned To	atrol
Priority	low	Severity	tweak	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	2.27.1

Summary	0036526: Removal of predefined field "Reproducibility" does not take effect for administrator user
Description	I removed some fields with "Create Configuration Option", e.g. in the bug report input mask the "Reproducibility". First, I thought this removal does not work, because I could not see the removal as Administrator. However, for all other users the field got removed. On the other hand, other fields (e.g. Tags, Severity) were removed also for the Administrator account. There must be some inconsistency in the setup.
Steps To Reproduce	Manage > Configuration > Configuration Report > Create Configuration Option Username: All Users Project Name: Feature Requests -- # Use your own project name for testing Configuration Option: bug_report_page_fields Type: Complex Value: array ('category_id', 'summary', 'description', 'additional_info', 'priority','handler','attachments') Press "Create Configuration Option" button Change to "Report Issues". Some fields got removed (e.g. tags), but Reproducibility remains to be visible.
Additional Information	The documentation of this Feature to remove some fields is not really existing. There are some forum entries describing how to do it.
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atrol 2025-10-23 14:24 developer ~0070594	@andreas.muesing I tried on two systems and was not able to reproduce. Please check if there is no additional configuration stored for the administrator user.

andreas.muesing 2025-10-24 02:51 reporter ~0070596	@atrol : Yes you were right. There was an additional configuration for the admin user, which shadowed the configuration for all users. It turns out that the filtering of configuration items was a bit misleading. The default combo box selection of the filtering is: User name Project name Configuration option All users All projects any With this default, I don't see the list of all items, but only the ones where matching the tuple of "All users" and "All projects" I would have avoided this misunderstanding if the default would have been [any] [any] [any]. -> This ticket here can be closed. Thanks for your hint! -> Maybe changing the default filter contents would be worth another ticket?

dregad 2025-10-24 09:34 developer ~0070599	the filtering of configuration items was a bit misleading. [...] With this default, I don't see the list of all items, but only the ones where matching the tuple of "All users" and "All projects" I would have avoided this misunderstanding if the default would have been [any] [any] [any]. [...] Maybe changing the default filter contents would be worth another ticket? This is done on purpose, because on MantisBT instances with a large number of users (such as this one), the manage configuration page loads thousands of rows (see 0014559).