Non-'software focused' project management [#2110]

A lot of the current text in Project reflects a sfotware development background with its references to "Bugs", "Feature", etc. I'd like to use it in a non-software development area, event planning and as a task list. More appropriate names, for my usage, would be:

"Bugs" => "Problems"
"Feature" => "Issue"
"create bug report" => "Create problem report"
"create feature request" => "Raise Issue"

other people might want to have different mappings.

I suspect, but I'm not sure, that I can workaround this issue with the "locale" module.

However, I think it would be better if there was some module specific solution.

NOTE: other module writters might want to think about applying the above to their modules as well.

Comments

Comment #1

(not verified) CreditAttribution: commented 26 August 2003 at 14:49

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» Kjartan

The project module is moving in this direction, but I'm not able to give an exact timeframe on this specific request. Should be simple to update the project module manually to adD/remove this stuff as it is all controled by a function.

Comment #2

Slothrop CreditAttribution: Slothrop commented 23 July 2004 at 20:34

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» User interface

For non-software projects not even the states apply completely. I manually changed/added both categories and states, I'd just like to point out that what should be considered when doing this is also change:

$query->states : array(1, 2, 8)
and
$query->states = array(1, 2, 8);

(1, 2, 8 states being 1 => t('active'), 2 => t('fixed'), 8=> t('patch'))
since the new states' meanings might not reflect the active, fixed, patch states of the original, neither their importance for being the only ones displayed when a search for "all" is done.

Comment #3

m3avrck CreditAttribution: m3avrck commented 29 September 2005 at 21:35

I agree, the fields "bug" etc... should be all editable in the admin > settings > project area just how the other fields like "active" etc are editable. Make it consistent, should be easy enough!