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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0009248 | mantisbt | attachments | public | 2008-06-10 07:43 | 2019-08-25 16:57 |
Reporter | gael | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
Platform | PC | OS | Windows XP | OS Version | SP2 |
Product Version | 1.2.0a1 | ||||
Summary | 0009248: Improvement suggestion for uploading clear filenames with DISK method | ||||
Description | When using DISK method for uploading files, I experiment some problems. Then let's me expose my point of view of such feature (DISK method only) File uploading operation write attachments with an encrypt-like behaviour. In an other way, files aren't stored with their real name. If several file with same name exist, Mantis will have to add a suffix or prefix with an index. | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | A template definition for attachment files could be added in project management.
Samples: MyFile_0001.txt MyFile_#245.txt MyFile_<MyString>.txt | ||||
Additional Information | Writing files without real names is a big disadvantage because users (admin and others users) could not identify files without Mantis (or info in database). In our company, we want to put all bugs attachment in a network drive but also readable (in read only) via other tools than Mantis. Putting filenames in clear in several directories with an optional path root (why not via "g_absolute_path_default_upload_folder" in "config_in.php") will be useful too for upgrade operation "Move attachments from Database from Disk" (and inversely). For FTP, we could imagine a similar mechanism Then in each project we could use either absolute path (it'll ignore "g_absolute_path_default_upload_folder") or relative path by using | ||||
Tags | No tags attached. | ||||