FS#2439 : Clone a Project

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Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend/Core
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Reported Version 1.0 devel (github master)
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Attached to Project: Flyspray
Opened by peterdd - 15.09.2017

FS#2439 - Clone a Project

There is a request for cloning a project on Flyspray mailing list:

Would be a very welcome features to have Project Templates for repetitive workflow. Any idea if its in the pipeline?

Thanks

Well, not yet.

The question is, how exactly you want that project clone.

Do you want just a rough copy of the project table entry?
Thats quite easy and can even be done without programming or writing a line of SQL just by using PHPMyAdmin (or similiar Tools for PostgreSQL) and copy a row of the project table for example.
See yellow marked project table on the right of the attached dbschema screenshot.

The other extreme is copying every project depending list table entries to new ones.
This sure requires some programming, but not too hard to add this to Flyspray. (all yellow marked tables in the attached dbschema screenshot.

I attach a rough form mockup how could this could look like.

Possible solution

add a new file scripts/ folder for instance copyproject.php (check admin permission)
add a template file to themes/CleanFS/templates/copyproject.tpl
Set a link to that clone form page somewhere, for example on the toplevel page of a project (see screenshot)
Handle the adminuser (or add a clonepermission for that project manager usergroup) submitted form careful and savely either by includes/modify.inc.php (or like scripts/copyproject.php to keep it seperate from core)

The link to the clone form looks then ?project=123&do=copyproject