Re: [mantisbt-help] Unique project names

[Jennifer M. <jm...@ps...>]

On 2/12/09 12:06 PM, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Jon Hardcastle<jd_...@ya...>  wrote:
>> >  Can anyone shed any light on why sub-projects have to be unique over the
>> >  whole of mantis?
>
> subprojects are really "projects", and you can't have two of them with
> the same name.
>
>> >This is causing us some problems as we have several quite
>> >  level areas, then within this we have areas of responsibility and again
>> >  within this categories.
>> >
>> >  It is proving troublesome to have different names for the same things.. in
>> >  slightly different areas.
>
> I am not sure I understand you here. maybe an example would be
> enlightening to make a more sensible comment.
>

I have an example. I have several projects in Mantis. For various 
reasons, some of the project managers prefer to have two subprojects: 
one for bugs and one for feature requests. In other words, what they 
want would look like this in the project selector:

Project A
 >> Bugs
 >> Enhancements
Project B
 >> Bugs
 >> Enhancements
Project C
 >> Bugs
 >> Enhancements

Instead, what I have to do is this:

Project A
 >> Bugs (Project A)
 >> Enhancements (Project A)
Project B
 >> Bugs (Project B)
 >> Enhancements (Project B)
Project C
 >> Bugs (Project C)
 >> Enhancements (Project C)


If projects with identical names were allowed, then I could give my 
users what they want, which is the first situation. I don't see a good 
reason to not allow this since the project's name is not its identifier 
in the database.


	-J.