58924 - ENH: Ability to add "custom fields" to bugzilla.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 13540

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Steve K]

I'm looking into using bugzilla at for an organization for both defect tracking,
and also for customer service requests.  Based on some other systems we used,
one feature my users are _really_ looking for is the ability to add "custom
fields" to bugzilla.  I might add this functionality myself, and submit it back
to the community, but before I do anything, I'd like to talk over my plan, and
ask for any input that people might have.

Basically, I'd like to be able to have "custom fields", which are specific to an
installation of bugzilla, and can be added at any time by administrators.
Ideally, these "custom fields" might be done on a per-product basis, so they can
be related to the products themselves.

I've really _just_ started looking into the implementation, but what I was
thinking is that one could expand the fielddefs table to contains metadata about
these custom fields (i.e. add columns customfield(boolean), product(text),
type(text)), etc.  and another table, called say, custom_field_data, which
contained a bugid, and the field data itself (with perhaps multiple columns for
different datatypes).

Then, one would need to modify the relevant CGIs to lookup these custom fields
from the fielddefs table, and present them in the UI, with the description, etc.

Basically, I'm looking to do a reasonable implementation of this without trying
to completely gut mozilla.  I think that such an addition would make it more
likely that all the mozilla sites out there that need such customizations can
have them, without having to get out of synch with the main bugzilla tree.

Please comment.  I'll keep this bug updated as I investigate myself.

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

We would all love this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13540 ***

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

uh huh

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to Bugzilla product
reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE

Comment 4

[P P N]

There are similar changes /updates we would like to see in bugzilla. I would like to know if the changes have been completed and whether we could avail the same if were to install bugzilla now.

Please read the BUG #344086 asking for same customization changes