Tag­Col­umn

The­ory

When used cor­rectly, adding tags to Man­tis issues can be a pow­er­ful fea­ture. Unfor­tu­nately, the cur­rent tag imple­men­ta­tion feels more like an
after­thought rather than a com­pletely baked-in fea­ture.  This is espe­cially true on the View Issues page, where tags are com­pletely hid­den from the
user.  This plu­gin attempts to fix this by adding a Tags column.

Usage

After instal­la­tion (see below), users can add the “Tags” col­umn to their
View Issues screen by fol­low­ing these steps.

1. Go to My Account -> Man­age Columns.
2. Add the “tagcolumn_tags” col­umn to your View Issues Columns.

An admin­is­tra­tor can per­form sim­i­lar steps, but under Man­age -> Man­age Con­fig­u­ra­tion -> Man­age Columns to add this col­umn for all users.

Require­ments

Man­tis 1.2.0 or greater is required.

Note that this ver­sion of the plu­gin does not sup­port the col­umn data
caching API.  This means that there could be some per­for­mance penal­ties
when run on high-traffic sites.

Instal­la­tion

Instal­la­tion is sim­ple and involves cre­at­ing a plu­gin folder and copy­ing the plugin’s PHP file into the folder.  You then acti­vate it from within Mantis.

1. Cre­ate a folder under your man­tis plu­g­ins folder named Tag­Col­umn.  For instance, if you have Man­tis installed at /var/www/mantisbt, then you would cre­ate /var/www/mantisbt/plugins/TagColumn.
2. Copy TagColumn.php into this folder.
3. Log in to Man­tis as an administrator.
4. Go to Man­age -> Man­age Plu­g­ins and click “Install” next to TagColumn.

Downloading/Version His­tory

TagColumn-1.0.tgz