[Mantisbt-dev] notification grid

[Andrew H. <ah...@ni...>]

ive deployed v0.17.5 at my office and have tried to adjust the workflow 
by email notification to our needs and quickly realized what a complex 
matter this can become. having checked out the current v0.18 to compare, 
i now see that the development is going in a similar direction to what i 
had in mind. i would like to clarify where this is all headed tho.

with the new grid system, the user preferences interface seems out-dated 
since it appears to set the preference for that user accross the board. 
however, presenting the user with the entire grid of options would be 
daunting, inadvisable and unnecessary. what was the plan for this 
interface? as a suggestion, couldnt we have another config setting of 
ALWAYS_ON which the user cannot override.

e.g.:
$g_notify_flags['new']['handler'] = ALWAYS_ON; # a handler will ALWAYS 
receive a 'new' notification, even if they set their 'email_on_new' to OFF

this way  when a user sets his preference for 'email_on_new' he cant 
turn ON notify_flags that have been marked OFF by default (currently the 
case) but correspondingly, he cant turn OFF those that are marked 
ALWAYS_ON. i think this would make the workflow a little more managable 
for me.

since i know there is also plans to set these prefs by project, im sure 
this area will change and id just like to get some idea where its going.

a.g.h