Properties Wizard | Configure the menu
'activetab' defines which tab should be enabled when you first load the Properties tab. This can be set from the REQUEST or by parameter (what's called 'options' in ZPT). This dtml-unless and REQUEST.set asserts that we have the variable available for testing.

Basic properties

The name of the whole instance

Enter as many different sections with which this issue tracker might be used. Further down on this page you can enable new ones to be added outside the Properties tab with the Allow adding new sections option.

If somebody enters an issue without specifying sections, these are used.

 

If a type is not selected when entering an issue this is used.

 

If an urgency is not selected when entering an issue this is used.

The people who get notifications about everything, one per line. Enter either a username or an email address. If what you enter is not an email address but a username, the system will try to find the user and instead show the username and fullname.

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With this there's a form when viewing an issue to subscribe to changes to it.

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If you enable the Tell a Friend widget people will be able to quickly inform other people about issues simply by entering their email address or username.

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If this is true, when adding issues (or followups) it becomes possible to pre-save them as draft objects.

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If true, the Id is always shown next to the title

If by modification date, follow ups to old issues pushes the issue towards the top of List Issues.

The usual syntax.

Admin, webmaster of this IssueTracker instance.

 

How many issues to list in List Issues

Number of possible file attachments when adding issue.

Number of possible file attachments when adding some sort of followup.

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Whether you, as Manager, can change the attributes of an issue once created or not.

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Use the User Management page instead.

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When true, the menu items will be shown together with a little icon image. Makes every page 1.9Kb bigger in size.

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When true makes it possible to add a new section when adding an issue instead of being restricted to the existing list of sections.

Templating variables available are:
[title], [url], [date],
[sitemaster name], [sitemaster email]
This is used for email send outs and the variables are replaced with their real values just before the email is sent out.

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Adds a date field so that you can set when issues are due to be completed. It's entirely superficial and up to you but the attribute might help you and your team. Click here to configure the date picker

Advanced properties

Deprecated feature. Remove later.

How many issues to list in the summary on the home page

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If enabled, won't allow new issues with the exact (case insensitive) same subject if it has been used before

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When you click change the issue attributes you can enter a numeral for the number of hours you estimate it will take to become completed. take to become "". This property only applies if you have "Allow issue attribute change" enabled.

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When you click change the issue attributes you can enter a numeral for the number of hours it took take to become completed. take to become "". This property only applies if you have "Allow issue attribute change" enabled.

Here you define the statuses issue can have and the captions for going into that status. Each line should be separated by a , comma like this <state>, <verb>.
Set a score on each status as a measure of progress

What makes a user a "IssueTracker Manager"

 

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If enabled, posting issues or followups won't be possible unless the user verifies being human by recognizing the text in a set of images. Like captchas.

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Send out emails after notifications have been created.

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If this is true, then only Managers can see the statistics.

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If this is true, then only Managers can see the reports.

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If on when listing or viewing issues it will show the date cleverly depending on how far it is from today's date in a more human form.

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If true, headers are set so that no caching happens.

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If true, in Add Issue, users can set if an issue should be confidential or not.

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If true, in Add Issue, users can set if their name and email should be hidden.

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If true, in Add Issue, you can specify a URL which is related to the issue.

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If true, when viewing an issue users can click the Download button to get the issue as a text file.

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If true, all hyperlinked email addresses are display as an encoded JavaScript script.

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If you use the Tell a friend feature, unsetting this will disallow users who have not logged in to use the Tell a friend feature.
Tip! If you're running a public issue tracker instance, spambots can use the Tell a friend to send spam unless you untick this option.

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When true, a list is displayed after an issue is added to say who has been notified.

How many numbers in the Id of issues.

String you might want issues id to start with.

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With this on users can enable access keys to keyboard shortcuts

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Allows acl users of an Issue User Folder to set their filters to be remembered persistently, meaning their last used filter is still on even if they restart their browser.

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Only applies if you enable Save drafts.

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If enabled will show a link at the bottom of List Issues to export the current unbatched issues to CSV.

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If checked, email notifications will be sent out with the issue description included in the email.
An advantage with having this checked is that email notifyees don't have to visit the issuetracker to read the whole text.

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If checked, on the List Issues and Complete List you can click to list all the first 1000.
This can get really really slow on a high traffic issue tracker and its slow loading time can cause Zope to run high in CPU and memory.

A plugin is an adjacent instance object that can be linked to from the issuetracker. Enter the path of the plugin (eg. somefolder/someobject)

No adjacent issue trackers found

These are issue trackers found in the proximity. You can select several issue trackers from this list and then all of their issues will be counted, listed and shown next to the issues of this issue tracker. Useful if you want to monitor several issue trackers from one single instance.

Custom properties

 
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To add a new property, enter a name, type and value for the new property and click the "Add" button.

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