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i had the same issue when importing from our previous system. In teh end, i just opened up the DB and edited the submitted/created date directly. Which is definately not supported, so back up your db before you do it, but it was pretty straight forward.

i have run mantis server on both vista, windows 7, windows2008 with no problems on ie 6, 7,8 chrome, opera and firefox with no issues.

i used the Web Platform Installer from MS. you can get it from here by clicking the get php button. http://php.iis.net/

i believe it was mentioned that the mantis team is workign on adding skinning support to 1.3. At the least, we should get more customizability along the lines of field position on a page.

the ticket you posted says that that bug will be fixed in the upcoming mantis 1.2.x version. The targeted version is to give an idea to the developers when this bug should be fixed. The "fixed in version" field lists what version it was actually fixed in. Also, the patch is right there on the ticket ...

http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=11385

if you want my code for displaying the custom fields horizontally just let me know. I didn't add it to the bug report as i thought it might complicate matters.

Albeit a MySql issue, including this in the mantis installation instructions as a footnote or something, might help those people who will be using a UTF8 system.

1.2.0RC2 is the current beta(?) version that supports graphs and the graph plugin. Or you could wait for the 1.2.0 release which should be any day now.

so obviously those forums aren't for you. But for a russian only speaking person, they may be put off posting in an all english forum. And having a russian one allows to post someplace where they know other people who can read russian can help them out. Not to mention those subforums i believe ...

really silly question, when you say admin do you mean the windows admin account?

also, i'm assuming that you set the db admin user and password in the config_inc.php? just for reference, i'm using "root" as the db username.

I've gotten mantis up and running on win2008R2 with no problems, so i'm ...

Is there a list somewhere of all the characters that mantis automatically interprets like # for bugs and ~ for comments?

also how can a user escape these characters for when they want to display # or ~ without changing the system-wide config. I still want the functionality, just be able to bypass ...

for a mysql install i did the following, went to "edit mysqql settins" and set the default charset to "UTF8".

I'm running japanese on 1.2.0rc2 with no problems, other than graphing, after making that db setting change.

i:m not sure how it is for your version but in 1.2.0rc2 you add a new file in teh root directory of mantis called "custom_strings_inc.php" and you need to set the following for everything to appear alright

#Rename acknowledge status to QA
$s_status_enum_string = '10:new,20:feedback,30:in QA,40 ...