Manage relations between Trac resources like relates to or parent > child in tickets

Description

This plugin provides a general system for relating different Trac resources. The kind of resource is dependend on the use case.

It comes with plugins for relations between tickets with the following. features:

• simple relations between tickets without any special semantics (relates to)
• allow a ticket to block another ticket
• specify parent -> child relationships similar to what can be found in the ChildTicketsPlugin.

Features:

• The plugin adds the relationship information to the ticket properties box when a ticket page is shown.
• Manage relations between tickets from the ticket page.
• For blocked tickets the plugin makes sure that a ticket can't be resolved as long as any blocking ticket is still open.
• When child tickets exist for a ticket they are shown as a tree below the properties box.

Screenshots

Relation properties

Modify relations form the ticket page

Manage relations

Child ticket tree

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for TracRelationsPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from here.

Source

You can check out TracRelationsPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source​ with Trac.

Installation

General instructions on installing Trac plugins can be found on the TracPlugins page.

Configuration

When using child tickets it is necessary to create a ticket-custom field relationdata. This field will not be shown on the ticket page but is needed for internal use.

[ticket-custom]
relationdata = text

The rest of the customization may be done with a new admin page Ticket Relations -> Parent Types.

You may also configure them with entries in trac.ini. Features can be specified separately for each ticket type.

parent.<type>.allow_child_tickets = True|False

if child tickets are allowed for this parent ticket type

parent.<type>.inherit = fieldname 1, fieldname 2, …

specify the ticket fields which should be copied to the child

parent.<type>.restrict_child_type = type 1, type 2, …

allow these types ase new child ticket types

parent.<type>.table_headers = fieldname 1, fieldname 2, …

the table headers to be shown for child tickets

In this example the configuration is for tickets of type defect:

[relations-child]
parent.defect.allow_child_tickets = True
parent.defect.inherit = description,milestone,summary,project,version
parent.defect.restrict_child_type = defect,enhancement
parent.defect.table_headers = status,project,summary

Recent Changes

18231 by Cinc-th on 2021-04-17 08:40:34

TracRelationsPlugin: show Duplicate of} field in preview ticket box only if resolution is actually set to duplicate. Removed some test code.

18230 by Cinc-th on 2021-04-16 17:41:18

TracRelationsPlugin: support duplicate relations. These are automatically created when resolving a ticket as a duplicate and an id of the other ticket is provided.

18228 by Cinc-th on 2021-04-16 05:57:22

TracRelationsPlugin: file rename to make the usage more obvious.

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Author/Contributors

Author: Cinc-th
Maintainer: Cinc-th
Contributors: