| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0007715 | mantisbt | feature | public | 2007-01-12 09:54 | 2026-05-07 09:04 |
| Reporter | deboutv | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | acknowledged | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | Linux | OS | Redhat | OS Version | 9.0 |
| Product Version | 1.0.5 | ||||
| Summary | 0007715: How about category description? | ||||
| Description | Is it possible to add a description to the categories? In our bugtracker I have added a "help" link to select the product version (see attached file). The "help" link is used to open a popup that displays a table with the product version and the corresponding description. It helps reporter to select the good product version. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Add field description to the mantis_project_category_table. |
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It is not so easy! |
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Patches are welcome. We can support Add Category and "Add and Edit" to provide description. This should mimic the current behaviour for adding versions. |
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Having category descriptions would be very useful. An enhancement would be that the description is displayed as a tooltip throughout the interface when hovering over a catagory name. |
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It can be quite difficult for users to choose the right category for an issue, since there are no hints, especially if the project uses a large set of categories. However, we also want to keep the category names themselves brief. This PR adds category descriptions as standard tooltips on list items, using the |
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