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Share custom filters across projects

Added by Samuel Talleux over 10 years ago

Hi,

when creating a custom query / global query one can “share” it with other users. In redmine one could also “share” it with all projects. This option isn’t availabe in OpenProject. But how to do if you need a bunch of custom queries for each project? recreating them each time is really painful, especially if they change over the time.

Is there any trick or function i didn’t find?

Different approaches are possible:

  • a checkbox “Share with all projects”
  • choose wich projects to share the query with
  • Inherit custom queries so one can create it for a parent project

I can image that there are some issues when the custom query queries fields that aren’t available on each project, especially custom fields.

Any ideas on this? Should a create an entry in the Wish List ?

Any feedback is welcome.

Samuel


Replies (6)

RE: Share custom filters across projects - Added by Niels Lindenthal over 10 years ago

Hi Samuel,

I can image that there are some issues when the custom query queries fields that aren’t available on each project, especially custom fields.

Yes, that is the tricky part. What happens if the filter is not valid in all project?

  • The filter is about an assignee but the assignee does not exist in all projects.
  • The filter is about type but the type is not activated in that project
  • [….]

choose wich projects to share the query with

Same problem :-(

Inherit custom queries so one can create it for a parent project

Same problem :-(

Any ideas on this?

We should make the filters more robust so they can handle theses cases.

Should a create an entry in the Wish List?

Yes, this is the first step. Anyhow, somebody would have to develop it.

Regards
Niels

RE: Share custom filters across projects - Added by Samuel Talleux over 10 years ago

Hi Niels,

Thanks for the fast answer. I will make a wish list entry.

One thought: anyhow this works in redmine, although some problems are the same there (assignee, type etc… that isn’t in each project)

I’ll put the link to the wish list entry here, when i’v done it.

Greets,

Samuel

RE: Share custom filters across projects - Added by Samuel Talleux over 10 years ago

I did some tests in redmine and found no real problem use case.
As an example:
Project A hast Member John and Types “Bug” and “Feature”
Project B has Member Jessica and Types “Story” and “Milestone”

So, nothing common.

If you create a filter in project A “all WPs assigned to John and type Bug” and share it with project B, then there are no conflicts, the filter just won’t show any WPs.
When i try to edit the filter from within project B then it will only show options that make sense (e.g. type can only be “Story” or “Milestone” and will create a new one.

This looks like a pragmatic way that is better than having to create the filters for every project.

Would it be difficult to implement or reintroduce the redmine code on this?

RE: Share custom filters across projects - Added by Catherine G almost 8 years ago

Hello,
it would be very interesting for me to know if this remdine code has been implemented or if there is any news on this bevavior: “share queris with all/other users”?

Thanks!

RE: Share custom filters across projects - Added by Niels Lindenthal almost 8 years ago

Hi Catherine,

no there is curenlty no progress in this area.

@Samuel: I didn’t find a feature request for. Did you already create one?

Best
Niels

RE: Share custom filters across projects - Added by Samuel Talleux almost 8 years ago

@Niels,

looking at this history i’m afraid i actually didn’t create that feature request…
which doesn’t mean that i’m not interested anymore ;-)

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