0003786: deleting a category that is in use should issue a warning

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0003786	mantisbt	feature	public	2004-04-28 23:02	2008-08-11 09:41

Reporter	dfaught	Assigned To	jreese
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Fixed in Version	1.2.0a2

Summary	0003786: deleting a category that is in use should issue a warning
Description	If I go to manage_proj_edit_page.php via 'Manage->Manage Projects->project name' as an admin, and then delete one of the categories that at least one bug report is using, the category is deleted without any warning. The bug reports that use that category then have an empty category field. Most bug reporting tools will not allow deleting a category that is in use. I would at least like to see a warning if the category is in use, and perhaps a list of bugs that are using it. There is currently a warning message any time I delete a category, but it doesn't say whether any records are using that category.
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grangeway 2008-07-13 12:59 reporter ~0018441	John, Can you evaluate this issue as part of your category changes. Paul

jreese 2008-07-14 07:57 reporter ~0018504	Well, even with the new category system, it still functions almost identical to the previous system. However, now it gives a category_id of '0', which gets interpreted as 'No Category' instead of blank. As for a warning, we could just change the text string on the ensure_confirmed() message to take a parameter and include the current bug count in the message. Would be a simple solution. Thoughts?

jreese 2008-07-30 14:21 reporter ~0018931	Fixed in SVN trunk r5466.

MantisBT: master 6f93e2a3 2008-07-30 14:21 jreese Details Diff	Fix 0003786: Show bug count when deleting categories. git-svn-id: http://mantisbt.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mantisbt/trunk@5466 <a class="text" href="/?p=mantisbt.git;a=object;h=f5dc347c">f5dc347c</a>-c33d-0410-90a0-b07cc1902cb9	Affected Issues 0003786
	mod - lang/strings_english.txt	Diff File
	mod - manage_proj_cat_delete.php	Diff File