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Hello,

I'm an administrator of our Bug Tracking website.
I have set up a bug tracking site which is available for multiple partners.
They each have a different project assigned.

I have noticed that the bug numbers posted in 1 project also increment the bugnumber for the other projects.
I would like to add a prefix to a project to solve this issue and still maintain a unique number.
Ex: project 1 has prefix "comp_a"
project 2 has prefix "comp_b".

If i would post a bug in project 1 the bugnumber would look like comp_a000001.
If i would post a bug in project 2 the bugnumber would look like comp_b000001 instead of 0000002.

How can i do this?


Thanks!

It is not possible to restart the bug id to 1 for each project.

I don't understand. We have another "outdated" Mantis bugtracking project running which uses these prefixed and it does exactly what i want from it.
The problem is that the webmaster isn't available anymore and i have no access to the sources.

Is there any other "fix" you can recommend?

It's not the first time I see this request. I still wonder what's the point in restarting numbering...

Because this bugtracker supports projects for different development parties.
When i log 10 bugs in project A (owned by partner A) and i log 1 bug in project B (owned by partner B) it files as bug 11.

Hey NightWalker, did you ever get an answer to this one? We want to restart bug number per project as well. Would appreciate anything you got on this.

I already answered, it is not possible.

The only thing possible is to change how it is displayed.

deboutv wrote:The only thing possible is to change how it is displayed.

It could be very interesting ... but how?

You need to patch the bug_id_format function.

Will v.1.2.2. now allow the addition of a project prefix as outlined by NightWalker? We are considering a switch to Mantis, and this was a feature we used in our former software.

Some thoughts why I think this is not a good idea
http://www.mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopi ... 30&p=29992

deboutv wrote that display can be changed.
This is true and since version 1.2 there is an event for this which can be used to write a plugin.
http://docs.mantisbt.org/master/en/deve ... REF.OUTPUT
So there is no longer the need to patch a file which is delivered with standard MantisBT.

Someone wrote this plugin http://git.mantisforge.org/w/CustomID.git
From the readme

Allows to display the contents of a custom field instead of the BugID. In the configuration you have to choose Project, Custom Field and you can add a prefix that is added to the value in order to make it distinguishable from real bug ids.

Based on atrol's helpful insight, we're now leaning away from using a project prefix before the BugID. If we decide to re-examine this, we'll certainly follow up on the information provided. Thank you for your feedback!