0008315: Category not deletable from Issue after moving to different project - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0008315	mantisbt	bugtracker	public	2007-08-27 08:20	2024-02-28 10:43

Reporter	runner80	Assigned To	dregad
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required

Summary	0008315: Category not deletable from Issue after moving to different project
Description	After moving an issue to a different project the issue keeps it's old category name. I can see no possibility to delete the given category from this issue. The new project has no categories and I want it to stay this way. Is there any possibility to delete the category from my issue. Or do I have to hack into mysql? Thanks in advance!
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vboctor 2007-08-28 03:27 manager ~0015544	I am interested to know why you have 0 categories. In the case where categories don't apply to a project, I typically use one category like "General" or something similar.

giallu 2007-08-28 05:11 reporter ~0015545	I wonder what is supposed to happen when the bug has a category field not existent in the destination project (which could be quite common AFAICT)

runner80 2007-09-03 04:57 reporter ~0015561	Thanks for the reply vboctor, and I agree that a project should have at least one category. Unfortunately, the company I work for doesn't want to use categories in this specific project... Is there another option at the moment or do I have to delete it manually in the db (which I would like to avoid :-))?

dregad 2024-02-14 12:43 developer ~0068542	In recent versions of MantisBT, you can `$g_set allow_no_category = ON` and `$g_default_category_for_moves = 0` in your target project without categories, and moved issues will see their category unassigned. We are resolving this issue as "no change required", because it was reported against an old version of MantisBT which is no longer supported. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest stable version [1]; if after doing so the problem still exists, do not hesitate to reopen the issue. [1] http://www.mantisbt.org/download.php