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I went to the following website and followed instructions:
http://manual.mantisbt.org/manual.custo ... values.php

I am sorry but I think I am dense becasue I could not make sense of it. It never tells you if you are suppose to create those files (or loof for existing ones). Well I assumed I had to create them, but then it never said where they needed to be created.

If someone has some simpler instructions on how to create a new status please pass it my way as I cannot make sense of that page.

Eric Joy

Hi dbmdude,

Those instructions that you looked at are for creating new statuses and the like. If you wish to create a new category for a project, you do it via the actual Mantis application.

Log in with an account that can manage the particular project you want to set categories for and click "Manage". Then click "Manage Projects" and then the actual project you want to add categories to.

On this project management page is a section labeled "Categories". Here is where you can add your own categories to the project.

Hope this helps,
Lincoln.

dbmdude wrote:If someone has some simpler instructions on how to create a new category please pass it my way as I cannot make sense of that page.

I am even denser... I meant how to create a new STATUS. I want to create a "Ready for Test" status. I also would like it to reassign back to the originator after I change to that status.

Sorry if I was confusing!!

DBMDude

Anonymous wrote:

dbmdude wrote:If someone has some simpler instructions on how to create a new category please pass it my way as I cannot make sense of that page.

I am even denser... I meant how to create a new STATUS. I want to create a "Ready for Test" status. I also would like it to reassign back to the originator after I change to that status.

Sorry if I was confusing!!

DBMDude

I forgot to sign in to post that... LOL

The two files (custom_constant_inc.php, custom_strings_inc.php) need to be created. You should already have a config_inc.php file where you named your database.

If you only care about one language (english), custom_strings_inc.php can be simplified to: (note that the #58 symbols are colons)

thraxisp wrote:The two files (custom_constant_inc.php, custom_strings_inc.php) need to be created. You should already have a config_inc.php file where you named your database.

If you only care about one language (english), custom_strings_inc.php can be simplified to:

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<?php
  $s_status_enum_string =
    '10:new,20:feedback,30:acknowledged,40:confirmed,50:assigned,
       60:to be tested,80:resolved,90:closed';
    $s_to_be_tested_bug_button = "Issue Ready to Test";
    $s_to_be_tested_bug_title = "Set Issue Ready to Test";
    $s_email_notification_title_for_status_bug_to_be_tested =
        "The following issue is ready TO BE TESTED.";
?>

(note that the #58 symbols are colons)

You still need to tell me where those two files need to be put (as I said before) that is the crucial information left out of the document.

dbmdude

All three files go in the main mantis directory.

VERY MUCH!!

I've clarified this in tha manual source.

I have customized the new TEST-state as described in documentation and it seem to me, that the entries in the file custom_string_inc.php (located on the mantis main directory) will not picked up. In the "My View" I get the @60@ instead of "to be tested";

If I move the same entries to the language-file (eg. strings_english.txt) it works fine.

Is there any global parameter to allow the customizing or what's wrong?

thanks
bruno

I know everyone's very busy, but could someone *in the know* clean up/combine the Documentation/Instructions AND the comments here, and what's currently in the comments there? It would be nice to see all at once what I really should do in order to do a custom workflow/status.

It would be a great help to the new folks here who have trouble sharpening a pencil without a bowie knife, like myself.