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Generate project identifier automatically with JavaScript (Feature #615)

Added by Jan Schulz-Hofen at 2011-09-11 04:05 pm. Updated at 2011-10-31 03:32 pm.

Status:Closed Start date:2011-09-11
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:Holger Just % Done:

0%
Category:User interface
Target version:2.4.0
Remote issue URL:http://www.redmine.org/issues/9225 Affected version:

Description

At Planio Redmine Hosting, we found that a considerable number of first-time users got stuck while creating their first project. The reason: the project identifier. As it is now, it's not clear what it is for and quite a few of our users tried identifiers starting with a number which yields a validation error that is not specific enough to help them understand that it actually has to start with an a-z character.

This patch attempts to solve the issue by two small improvements:

  1. automatically generate the identifier while the name is typed in
  2. let the user know that the identifier must start with a lower case letter

Appreciate your comments and would love to see this making it into the core - I think it will improve the first time Redmine experience.

The patch is against our Redmine version. Might need only minor modifications for Chili.

changeset_rea7e9f7e100db9e5ffda644296b543802039f503.diff (6.5 kB) Jan Schulz-Hofen, 2011-09-11 04:05 pm

Associated revisions

Revision a8fcf848
Added by Jean-Philippe Lang at 2008-03-16 01:21 pm

Add a time tracking block for 'My page' (#615).
It lists current user's time entries for the last 7 days across all projects, grouped by day with subtotals for each day, and a grand total.

git-svn-id: http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk@1260 e93f8b46-1217-0410-a6f0-8f06a7374b81

Revision 2f4afeeb
Added by Holger Just at 2011-10-30 10:33 am

[#615] Generate project identifier automatically with JavaScript

Also let the user know that the identifier must start with a lower case letter.

Contributed by Jan Schulz-Hofen.

History

#1
Updated by Holger Just at 2011-09-11 04:31 pm

I like this patch. Some potential improvements to consider:

  • Target version set to 2.3.0

#2
Updated by Jan Schulz-Hofen at 2011-09-21 11:03 am

There's an improved version including the diacritics and a fix regarding Etienne's concern with sequential identifiers at http://www.redmine.org/issues/9225

#3
Updated by Holger Just at 2011-10-04 08:53 am

I like your new version. However, we still need to clear the license of the diacritics script. I think it's going to be okay, but we should nevertheless ask.

Thus, I'm postponing this feature to 2.4

  • Target version changed from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0

#4
Updated by Eric Davis at 2011-10-13 01:34 am

Side comment: I'd like to start scoping our JavaScript. Putting functions in the global namespace is getting messy. Doesn't need to be done for this feature but we should start thinking about it.

#5
Updated by Holger Just at 2011-10-30 09:38 am

Pushed your updated version in 2f4afee (slightly updated).

Thanks Jan!

  • Assignee set to Holger Just

#6
Updated by Holger Just at 2011-10-31 03:32 pm

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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