Partial custom fields design document

Joel Peshkin bugreport at peshkin.net
Mon Mar 22 23:52:46 UTC 2004


Gervase Markham wrote:

> Sean McAfee wrote:
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>> display_name is the human-readable name of the field which appears on
>> the Web interface.
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> How does this interact with localisation?
>
I've been advocating the use of a "hook" mechanism to permit templates 
that know better to preempt the default handling of the UI for 
customfields on a per-field basis.


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> This design doesn't yet cover tracking bug_activity for custom fields...
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> Gerv


Why wouldn't this be just a case of adding a field to the bug activity 
table indicating if the fieldid is a custom field or a standard field?





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