Re: Adding "Description" column field in Advanced query option.

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 22:33 15.12.2002 -0800, Gnanesh V wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
>         We are using GNATS 3.113 for reporting bugs &
> it's extremely good for usage till now. We have an
> request about adding fields in GNATS.
>
> 1)Is there any possiblity of adding extra fields of
> our own in GNATS. If so please let us know which all
> files we need to update & what contents has to go in
> under these files.

This is one of the most important new features of GNATS 4.0. You can add 
and remove fields, change behaviour of fields and in general customize most 
aspects of GNATS behaviour. GNATS 4 is its second beta version right now. 
If you are using GNATS in production, it is a bit risky to start using the 
beta version there, even though I consider beta 2 to be generally good 
quality and in most respects much better quality that 3.113.

> 2)Please let us know how to add "Description" field in
> select columns to display under "Advanced query"
> option. This is very important for us since, when a
> query is selected, the fields that we can select in
> select columns to display should contain this
> "Description" column field. So that we can get the
> Problem Reports along with "Description" of each
> problem Report selected & it will be useful for us to
> have the decription of the problem report in our
> report.

This is harder. Description is a multi-line field and it can thus easily 
contain data that are completely impossible to display in the table format 
that Query Results uses. It can of course be done with a bit of Perl 
knowledge, but it might involve changing the entire Query Results display.

This particular feature probably belongs in the reporting functionality 
that I plan to include in Gnatsweb 4.1 (or whatever it will be called), so 
you may have to wait until then.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer