Reminders

Mantis Manual

Reminders
Last Modified: December 12, 2004 09:12AM

(Introduced in 0.18.0)

Description

Sending reminders is a feature where a user can notify / remind other users about a bug. In the past, only selected users like the managers, or developers would get notified about bugs. However, these people can not invite other people (through Mantis) to look at or monitor these bugs.

$g_store_reminders	Specifies if reminders should be stored as bugnotes. The bugnote will still reflect that it is a reminder and list the names of users that got it. Default is ON.
$g_reminder_recipients_monitor_bug	Specifies if users who receive reminders about a bug, should be automatically added to the monitor list of that bug. Default is ON.
This feature is useful if the Manager needs to get feedback from testers / requirements team about a certain bug. It avoid needing this person to do this manual outside Mantis. It also records the history of such reminders.

User Contributed Notes
Reminders

toneighty@gmail.com 27-Jan-2005 21:03	`#335`
`Is there a feature to remind project owner and asignee of bugs growing old or no activity?`

smilodon@NOSPAMarmy.com 26-May-2005 0:22	`#446`
`the var name above make wrong $g_reminder_recipients_monitor_bug should be $g_reminder_recipents_monitor_bug`

mantis.3.schaedpq@spamgourmet.com 15-Mar-2006 4:47	`#937`
`The feature of sending reminders automatically to the assignee (and/or maybe the managers of the project) if there was no activity on a bug or if the bug is not closed/resolved for an extended time is something I would also like to see in Mantis. Does anybody know, if there is work being done on that? Or if it is already possible and I just didnt find it?`

mike.craig@freeSPAMGUARDclear.com 11-Apr-2006 11:36	`#990`
`I too am interested in this, as a daily report. Maybe just as simple to schedule an AT job to execute a script against the DB.`

andy.elliott@bizarrecreations.com 18-Jul-2006 12:52	`#1194`
`Hi there, I would like to echo the above posts - it would be EXTREMELY useful if there was an option to send automatic reminders after a set period of inactivity. For example: reminders every few days on bugs that haven't been updated in over 2 weeks.`

stuartjsmith@gmail.com 19-Sep-2006 3:35	`#1261`
`We are attempting to migrate to Mantis from our current bug tracking system, and one feature that we have is that we can 'pause' bugs so that they disappear from our radar until a set date - I can almost recreate this functionality using custom fields and filters, but would like a reminder to be sent out on that date, so again, I'm echoing the above comments!`

Last updated: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 - 5:28:58