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0007886mantisbtsub-projectspublic2007-04-10 15:042014-10-07 20:24
Reporteratomoid Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status acknowledgedResolutionopen 
Product Version1.0.6 
Summary0007886: Subproject should inherit custom fields from parent project
Description

When you create a subproject, you have to add the custom fields all over again from scratch. A very useful feature in cases where there are lots of custom fields would be to reuse whats already been done in the parent project, since most of the time its is necessary to merely reproduce the parent project's custom field setup.

This might be addressed in a couple different ways:

a) similar to the "copy categories from" function, you should be able to "copy custom fields from"

b) alternatively, there could be a switch to have subproject inherit all custom fields of the parent project.

In both cases the field layout ordering from the parent project could be preserved in the subproject.

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Relationships

has duplicate 0007207 closedvboctor Make sets of Custom Fields that appear by default to subprojects of a larger project. 
has duplicate 0006229 closeddregad Add a "custom field" on a parent project so that its sub-projects also have it 

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neilc

neilc

2010-09-22 10:16

reporter   ~0026843

b) would be very useful
esutton

esutton

2012-08-31 10:51

reporter   ~0032749

+1
I would like to see this implemented as well.
yany

yany

2013-01-21 08:53

reporter   ~0034848

Agree, would be very nice to have a few other checkboxes as well. Just imagine the picture attached to this issue to give you the following additional columns:

  • Inherit Custom Fields (checkbox)
  • Inherit User Privileges (checkbox)
  • View Status ("inherit", "public", "private")
  • Inherit Version Numbers
  • and so on...
dregad

dregad

2013-01-21 09:46

developer   ~0034849

For the record,

a) similar to the "copy categories from" function, you should be able to "copy custom fields from"

is available in current version of Mantis.

Implemeting a proper inheritance for this, and the other attributes as mentioned by yany is no small undertaking... so don't hold your breath for this (or start coding and propose a patch ;-) )