What are Categories normally used for?

[rowan.bradley]

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

[atrol]

Have a look at our bug tracker for an example of category usage
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs

A special functionality of categories:
You can assign a users to a category which is automatically assigned when an issue is reported.