Defect History

[mstaton]

I'm evaluating Mantis to see what features are provided "out of the box". When I review a particular issue I can see a defect history at the bottom of the screen that shows each time defect was modified, what was modified, and who performed the modification. When I view issues there is an option to produce a CSV or Excel export. When I produce this report I do NOT get the defect history in the exported file. Is there a way to included the defect history when exporting to a CSV or Excel file? I want to know if this is possible without any development changes. Just out of the box with, at most, configuration changes.

[atrol]

There is no configuration option for it.

[mstaton]

To confirm, it would take development effort to include defect history in the export to CSV or Excel.

[atrol]

Yes, it would take development effort.

[wildbeliefs]

Hi,

Sorry to revive an old thread, but this is a feature that I'm really interested in.
If I wanted to add the functionality myself, can someone point me in the right direction?

Alternatively, maybe there's a plugin that already does what I need: I need to track the start and end times of a task. The current time tracking (built-in or via plugins) seem to track total time spent instead of start/end times, so I thought an easy way to do it would be to extract the time difference between status changes in the issue history (ex: time difference between when an issue went from acknowledged to resolved)

Thanks a lot for your help and good job with the development of Mantis. It's great software!

[cas]

Lookup the query and add the link to the history table. Then you will get an entry for each history record.
Pretty straightforward

[wildbeliefs]

Straightforward if you know what you're doing. I, on the other hand, am out of my depth and taking stabs in the dark.

I'm assuming you mean to look up the query used for exporting reports. I'll try that, thanks!
If you have any other hints or more detailed instructions I'll be more than grateful.

[cas]

It can be challenging but you could also try my query plugin which allows you to create your own queries which are then exported to excel.
You can find it here:
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=14633