[[PageOutline(2-5,Contents,pullout)]] = New Ticket Like This = == Description == The NewTicketLikeThisPlugin adds a "Clone" button to existing tickets, which lets you create a new ticket whose fields derive from the original ticket if you have the appropriate permission. It is based on the tracopt.ticket.clone.ticketclonebutton extension that ships with Trac core. Unlike that extension, the NewTicketLikeThisPlugin defines and consumes a pluggable interface for implementing custom policies to determine the way in which a new ticket is derived from the original. This allows flexible, customized business logic to be provided based on the needs and workflows of your team. Also, the NewTicketLikeThisPlugin allows you to configure the permission required to clone a ticket, whereas the core ``ticketclonebutton`` hard-codes the TICKET_ADMIN permission. Two policies are provided by default, in the ``newticketlikethis.policies`` module: * ``SimpleTicketCloner`` mimics the behavior of the ``core tracopt.ticket.clone.ticketclonebutton`` extension: all fields from the original ticket are cloned, and the "summary" and "description" fields are modified to denote the ticket that they were cloned from. * ``ExcludedFieldsTicketCloner`` clones all fields from the original ticket with no modifications. It can also ignore certain fields entirely, based on a configuration setting, which will force the new ticket to be generated with the system's default values (or no values) for the fields that were excluded. More complex policies might implement custom logic for deriving new ticket values based on the values of the existing ticket's fields, or use alternate cloning policies based on the ticket's type. == Bugs/Feature Requests == Existing bugs and feature requests for NewTicketLikeThisPlugin are [report:9?COMPONENT=NewTicketLikeThisPlugin here]. If you have any issues, create a [http://trac-hacks.org/newticket?component=NewTicketLikeThisPlugin&owner=ejucovy new ticket]. == Download == Download the zipped source from [https://github.com/boldprogressives/trac-NewTicketLikeThisPlugin/tags here]. == Source == You can clone NewTicketLikeThisPlugin from [git://github.com/boldprogressives/trac-NewTicketLikeThisPlugin.git here] using Git, or [https://github.com/boldprogressives/trac-NewTicketLikeThisPlugin browse the source] with Github. == Example == To use the plugin, install it in your Trac environment and enable its components in ``trac.ini``:: [components] newticketlikethis.* = enabled By default this will add the "Clone" button to the ticket view, and will use the ``SimpleTicketCloner`` component to clone your tickets. The ``TICKET_ADMIN`` permission will be required for cloning tickets. == Recent Changes == [[ChangeLog(newticketlikethisplugin, 3)]] == Author/Contributors == '''Author:''' [wiki:ejucovy] [[BR]] '''Maintainer:''' [wiki:ejucovy] [[BR]] '''Contributors:'''