Is it possible to format bugnotes(comments) entered in Mantis bug tracker for an issue ?
I am using Mantis v1.0.8
e.g.
"sample mantis bug notes"
which appears as plain text.
I would like to make it bold or to display in different color
e.g. similar to https://stackoverflow.com/editing-help
does any other bug tracking system allow such feature ?
Best Answer
As it was said by Gawcio and mhu, the list is limited and in current mantis
1.2.15
use of following tags is allowed in description and other multi-line fields:<p>
,<li>
,<ul>
,<ol>
,<br>
,<pre>
,<i>
,<b>
,<u>
,<em>
,<strong>
.Additionally, following tags are allowed in summary and other single-line fields (e.g. OS or Platform):
<i>
,<b>
,<u>
,<em>
,<strong>
. That's funny to have some emphasis in issue summary, right? :)What is not explicitly said, is that these lists are customizable. Unfortunately, they are so-called global settings, so they can't be set using web interface, but if you have a possibility of tweaking the installed mantis code, you can modify the
<mantis-doc-root>/config_inc.php
file (which is purposed to be modified locally) and add following options there:After server restart, you should be able to use the
<code>
tag in summary and description of your issues.Unfortunately, mantis tags filters seem to disallow any tag attributes, so it won't be easy to allow free formatting. Personally, I have adjusted its style sheet to tweak the colour in which content of
<pre>
and<code>
tags is displayed. To achieve it, you can edit the<mantis-doc-root>
/css/default.css` file and add/adjust following rules:This way your report may gain some colours :)