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Bug 468151
Opened 16 years ago
Updated 11 years ago
Should be a way to populate large numbers of legal values for a custom field at once
Categories
(Bugzilla :: Administration, task, P2)
Bugzilla
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(Reporter: mrbball, Unassigned)
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Build Identifier: Bugzilla/3.2
It would be very useful if there were a mechanism to populate a custom
field with all valid values at once.
If a custom field of type "Multiple-Selection Box" or "Drop Down" is
added to Bugzilla and there are large quantities (i.e. hundreds) of
legal values, adding them one by one in the standard admin interface, as
described in section 3.11 of the Bugzilla Guide, can be prohibitively
time consuming. But, that is the only "official" mechanism available
for getting the values into the database.
There is obviously the option of going directly to the database, but
there is no guidance in the documentation for doing that and it is
unclear whether any considerations need to be made other than simply
adding the values/sortkeys to appropriate cf_<field_name> table.
Reproducible: Always
Comment 2•16 years ago
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For what it's worth, yes, all you have to do currently is add them directly to that DB table.
Priority: -- → P2
Comment 3•16 years ago
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By the way, the solution to this is probably allowing people to enter a newline-separated list in a textarea, and just giving them successively higher sortkeys as we insert them. This should be particularly easy to do now that we have Bugzilla::Field::Choice.
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