[teampractices] [ANY] Looking for live example of a Phabricator custom form

Mukunda Modell mmodell at wikimedia.org
Fri Apr 15 16:01:36 UTC 2016


I created a custom form just to demonstrate the possibilities and encourage
people to request custom forms. Simply submit the example to request your
own custom form:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/17/

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Alex Monk <amonk at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> To get a custom form for anything it should go through that project, yes.
>
> You can require certain projects for all task creations going through your
> creation form, but then the user can't add any extra projects themselves
> (AFAIK).
>
> You should be able to set the default task description to some helpful
> template, but reproduction steps are not always required for bug reports.
>
> On 14 April 2016 at 23:13, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the updates. It's my understanding that in order to get a
>> custom form for a team, it should be requested via the Phabricator
>> project <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/phabricator/>. Is this
>> correct?
>>
>> My hope was to make it easier for my teams to make tasks by
>> autopopulating certain things, like Projects that must always be tagged, or
>> prefilling information that is always required (such as repro steps for
>> bugs). Is this an appropriate use of forms?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Alex Monk <amonk at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Custom forms for tasks (i.e. not projects, pastes, etc.) are listed at
>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/transactions/editengine/maniphest.task/
>>>
>>> On 14 April 2016 at 22:45, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I never saw replies to this. I thought forms were a hotly-requested
>>>> feature. Are teams using them? If not, are there implementation problems,
>>>> or is it just a matter of not having the time to get to it yet?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kevin Smith
>>>> Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 4:23 AM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Wondering if this is a feature that my teams might want to use for
>>>>> their bug report templates, and/or ensuring the right projects are tagged
>>>>> for regular tasks, etc. I'd love to explore existing custom forms on other
>>>>> teams. I think I heard that the researchers might be such a team, but I'm
>>>>> open to any examples. :)
>>>>>
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