Mantis Bug Tracker - Forums

Hi - I'm new to MantisBT. What sort of things is the Categories field intended for? I'm just concenred that if I start using it for some information I need about each issue, that I will later discover that I need it for whatever it is normally used for...

Thanks - Rowan

I need a system that will work for tracking issues concenred with a new system we are delivering. These issues are (at least at this stage) not bugs, so some features of MantisBT are not really appropriate. To avoid confusing some people, I would like to remove these from the UI if I can. Examples ...

I gather from various messages in this forum that there's a CSV Export function, but I can't find it. Where is it? And which version did it arrive in (I'm using version 1.0.1).

Thanks - Rowan

Does anyone know how to export all the data from my Mantis database into Microsoft Team Foundation Server? I've been using Mantis for a number of years now, but our development team has moved onto all the latest Microsoft tools, so it makes sense to consolidate all of our bug reports onto one system ...

Thanks for your help. I hadn't spotted the facility to add versions - it's exactly what I was looking for.

Rowan

I've set up Mantis as a bug tracking system on a group of projects that I'm the Product Manager for. One thing that puzzles me is that there doesn't seem to be an obvious way for bug reporters to report the version of the software or firmware that they were using. Obviously it might be necessary to ...

I seem to have fixed my own problem. My php.ini file didn't have an entry for "upload_tmp_dir =". The comment in the file says "will use system default if not specified" - goodness knows where it was storing these files. On adding "upload_tmp_dir = c:\php\upload", and creating this directory ...

When I try to up-load files I get
APPLICATION ERROR #15
File upload failed. File is not readable by Mantis. Please check the project settings.

What do I have to do to enable users to upload files?

What does "check the project settings" mean? The project I was using has its Upload File Path set ...

I've copied the Mantis user documentation to a "manual" sub-directory in the "mantis" directory on my local server, and I've changed the relevant line in config_inc.php to:
$g_manual_url = $g_absolute_path . 'manual' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
but now the User Docuentation link points to:
file:///c ...