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Something on the front page would be best. I cannot find any obvious way of doing this in Mantis. Any suggestions? |
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I've done some investigation and testing into how MantisBT does things. There are two possible options I've tested: 1. Using the Announcements plugin: https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/announce It also requires the jQuery plugin: https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/jquery - It can be a permanent announcement or shown once per user, until the user turns it off in the X icon on the top left (shown in the attached image "announce_example.png"). - It has HTML class specifications "announcement announcement-header", so it can be stylized with CSS. - But it cannot provide links in the announcement text :( 2. Adding a footer that only appears in the login page. To do this: a. Edit the file 'config_inc.php'. b. Add the option: $g_bottom_include_page = 'footer.php'; c. Create the file 'footer.php' with something like this: <?php if( is_page_name( 'login_page.php' ) ) { ?> <div align=center>This Issue Tracker for the OpenFOAM project was designed for reporting bugs, reporting problems in installing OpenFOAM, to receive development contributions and for feature requests. Please do not use this platform to ask questions and request support.</div> <?php } ?> d. You could also add the check for showing when signing up as well: <?php if( is_page_name( 'login_page.php' ) || is_page_name( 'signup_page.php' ) ) { ?> Adding the footer gives more control, although it may require more formatting. announce_example.png (37,505 bytes) |
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Interesting... the HTML bold markers were rendered in the previous comment... I wonder if italic works: testing |
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I see that you're testing it out... but the title "This is a forum for posting issues with OpenFOAM" will result in 30-50% assuming this is a forum like the one at http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/ May I suggest instead: "This is a platform for reporting issues with OpenFOAM" |
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Thanks for the "announce" plugin suggestion. The plugin is out of date (for Mantis 1.2, not 1.3) and I had to remove the dependencies in the code to get it to run. It does not allow me to edit announcements so I have to delete and start again. Let's see how the current statement works and we can adjust if people do not get the message. The message does give us "license" to delete support questions, however, so it should help to avoid time being wasted. |
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Resolved for now. |
- Anonymous
