Custom field support
The headline for this release is custom fields are now supported. The fields are enabled by default and usable for both new task submissions and editing existing tasks. I’ve also enabled the ETA field to be a drop-down list.
Filtered trees for project selection
Project selection for the new task wizard and new query wizard now use the more elegant filtered trees provided by the Mylyn project.
Increased responsiveness
The new pages should feel much faster than the old ones since reviewing them has uncovered some unfounded assumptions which were costly performance-wise.
Minor fixes
I’ve also taken care of a few minor annoyances:
- Replying to comments now properly quotes the origin, instead of (null);
- It is now possible to attach more than one screenshot, and the user-submited names are respected;
- Mantis installations with more exotic access threshold values don’t cause task retrieval failures;
- Repository configuration updates now have a more predictable progress rate;
- Bundle dependencies are now more carefully set, to assist integrators.
As always, our bug tracker and forums await you.
Peter Stibrany said
Hello Robert,
may I have a question about support for multiple screenshots? Did you write custom “add attachment” dialog for this, or is there support for adding multiple screenshots/attachments directly in Mylyn?
Thank you.
Robert said
Hi Peter,
The support is already there in Mylyn, but it’s retrieved in a convoluted way. I actually opened a bug report
285921: ScreenshotCreationPage does not take user-selected file name into account
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=285921
and Steffen Pingel showed me how to properly extract the attachment name.
Peter Stibrany said
Thanks Robert. I think I got this right already (but I’ll check
). I am more interested in attaching multiple files/screenshots at once. Is this somehow possible in Mylyn? I think there is feature request for this, but if I understand correctly, you support attaching multiple screenshots at once.
Luke P said
I’m using 3.0.5 on Eclipse 3.4.0 and my Mantis is 1.1.8. Mantis install is very generic with no custom fields, etc.
I can verify my Mantis connection and credentials just fine. I can select a default project for new tasks and a filter I’ve set up previously. But when I try to query the repository, I get this NPE:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.itsolut.mantis.ui.wizard.MantisCustomQueryPage.refreshFilterCombo(MantisCustomQueryPage.java:413)
at com.itsolut.mantis.ui.wizard.MantisCustomQueryPage.access$0(MantisCustomQueryPage.java:399)
at com.itsolut.mantis.ui.wizard.MantisCustomQueryPage$1.widgetSelected(MantisCustomQueryPage.java:128)
Robert said
Hi Luke,
Are you sure you get this on a query? It looks like updating the repository attributes has failed.
Can you please open a ticket on our Mantis bug tracker?
Luke P said
I have no credentials to login to your Mantis.
Luke P said
Nevermind. I see I can use my SF credentials. Bug submitted.
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Mark said
HI,
I use 3.0.6 Connector, Mantis 1.1.8 and Eclipse 3.5. I see on one of your screenshots target version. How can I do the same with my configuration?
Robert said
Hi,
You should see values for this field if you have at least one unreleased version added to your MantisBT project.
Robert
Robert said
Now I understand
We don’t support multiple attachments in one dialog at all. Our bug fix is related to attaching 2 screenshots at different times, which we did not do correctly. Now we do.
Peter Stibrany said
Ah, ok. Thank you.