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10/23/2006 10:59 AM

	drofnas
5 posts

Feature Request: Customizable Forms

One of the previous issue systems that I've used allowed you to add, remove, and modify fields on the issue submission page. This would be a very nice feature to have. I don't really need an online editor or anything like that, but maybe if you read an XML document that described all of the fields that should be displayed on the page. There would be special tag names for the stuff built into BugNet, if you wanted to use those tags that is.

For Example the XML could look something like (I wasn't sure how XML tags would render, so I just replaced the "<" and ">" with "[" and "]"):

[SubmitIssue]
[item type="bugnet.version" required="true" /]
[item type="bugnet.component" required="true" /]
[item type="dropdown" required="true"]
[title]Browser[/title]
[options]
[value]Internet Explorer v6.0[/value]
[value]FireFox v1.5+[/value]
[/options]
[/item]
[item type="textbox" required="true"]
[title]Repro Steps[/title]
[/item]
[item type="textbox"]
[title]Other Thoughts[/title]
[/item]
[/SubmitIssue]

I definatly know this isn't a small feature request, but it's just something to keep in mind for a later version. I'm not sure how you would handle the storing of the data in the database though. Maybe someone else could reply to this post and give their ideas on how the database connectivity would work with this XML template, OR maybe even think of an even better solution that would get to the same end results.

10/23/2006 11:06 AM

	drofnas
5 posts

Re: Feature Request: Customizable Forms

It also seems that when you choose "Text" as your post type it gets rid of extra whitespace, so let's try to post the XML section again:

[SubmitIssue]
     [item type="bugnet.version" required="true" /]
     [item type="bugnet.component" required="true" /]
     [item type="dropdown" required="true"]
          [title]Browser[/title]
          [options]
               [value]Internet Explorer v6.0[/value]
               [value]FireFox v1.5+[/value]
          [/options]
     [/item]
     [item type="textbox" required="true"]
          [title]Repro Steps[/title]
     [/item]
     [item type="textbox"]
          [title]Other Thoughts[/title]
     [/item]
[/SubmitIssue]

10/24/2006 9:49 AM

	admin
658 posts
bugnetproject.com

Re: Feature Request: Customizable Forms

This idea sounds very interesting and we will have to explore it further in the future. Thanks for the feature idea.

Davin Dubeau
BugNET - Core Developer

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