Question

Is there a way to add certain elements to a case from the 'Add Case' feature? Like click 'Add Case' and then type in a title and specify other things, like 'Phone call with Director @tags statistics @estimate 15 minutes'. I would like to add time estimates, tags, assignments, etc from this line.

I have been looking at Thymer and this is one thing I really like about it. I want to be able to just type on a single line and add something quickly without selecting a bunch of different elements from different menus.

-Ben

Case FC1923242

Answer 1

Hey Ben. If you know you're going to be generating cases repeatedly with certain fields set a particular way, you might want to check out bookmarklets:

http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/2449/how-can-i-make-bookmarklets-to-create-various-types-of-new-cases-in-fogbugz

I really like your idea of a shorthand syntax for doing this via the case list, though. I think we should submit a feature request for that.

Answer 2

Great suggestion! I use remember the milk for my personal todos and it lets you enter nearly every detail of a case in one line as you suggest, and offers auto-completes and drop-downs for the tags, priorities, etc.

I've opened a feature request for this functionality. Please up-vote the question above to show your support for seeing it implemented.

If you can find a suitable home for it other than the existing Add Case field in list view, you could write a plugin to add this ability. Use IPluginStaticJS to add javascript which would tweak the page to add your input, and use IPluginRawPageDisplay to handle your AJAX requests to do autocomplete and submit the new case.