Question

My team is using FogBugz for issue tracking and Review Board for code reviews. I would like to add a link from a FogBugz case to its respective code review. Ideally, it should work similarly to the way FogBugz creates links between cases: Entering the words

review NNNNN

adds a hyperlink to

http://my.review.board/NNNNN/

in the place I wrote these words, where NNNNN is the review id. A second best is creating a custom field where I could fill a review id and have it link to the proper review automatically.

Answer 1

Snippets won't do exactly what you want (this won't add a field like related or duplicate cases), but they might work well enough for you (at least you can add the link more easily). Go to My Settings > Snippets and create a Personal Snippet like the following:

Snippet: review
Replacement Text: http://my.review.board/[[NNNNN]]/

Now if you enter review` (the "backtick" character found above the tab key, at least on US keyboards), it will be replaced with http://my.review.board/[[NNNNN]]/. The [[NNNNN]] will already be selected for you so you can enter the review id.