Custom Fields

This feature is available only in BUGtrack Professional Edition.

Use

When a user submits a new bug for a project, there may appear a necessity to enter some extra information. If existing fields for bug submitting do not reflect your company's needs, you may create up to 10 text custom fields or pickup lists that will have to be filled in together with the system-defined fields.

Obligatoriness of custom fields is specified by the project: therefore, after you have created a new field, you should specify in bug records of which project it should be present. If you have not marked a field as obligatory for a project, a user submitting a new bug will not be able to see it and fill it in.

Path

Admin tab – Management area – Custom fields link

Procedure

The procedure of custom fields creation comprises two steps:

Step 1. Create a new custom field.

• Click the Edit icon next to an empty line in the Custom fields form.

• On the displayed page, enter necessary values for a created field. If you have selected the Picklist type for a field, enter the list of choices in the displayed Values box. Every entry should begin with a new line; no punctuation marks are required.

• Click the Save button to save the new form or the Cancel button to discard changes and close the form.

Step 2. Specify a project in which the newly created custom field should be available.

• Click the Projects link in the Management area of the Admin section.

• Click the Edit icon next to a project in which the custom field should be available.

• Select Visible next to the new custom field.

As a result, created custom fileds will become visible to a user when a new bug for a corresponding project will be created or an existing bug will be edited.

Custom fields that are made available for the project, also become available in the Custom Entry Form generated for this project.

Tips

To specify a default value for a custom field of the Picklist type, select the necessary value from the list when editing a project fields value (on the picture above see the Resolution field example).

To delete previously created custom fields:

• Click the Delete custom field icon next to the necessary field in the list.

• Confirm deletion by clicking OK in the opened dialog box.

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