#mantisbt

MantisBT, an abbreviation for Mantis Bug Tracker, is a widely-used open-source issue tracking system designed to facilitate project management and software development processes. Originally created by Kenzaburo Ito, MantisBT has evolved into a mature and feature-rich platform over the years. It offers a comprehensive set of tools for bug tracking, issue management, and collaboration within…

Tracking Time in MantisHub

Whatever your business may be, keeping a record of the time that members of your team spend on your project tasks or issues can help in many areas, providing data to help with developing efficient, cohesive workflows for your business tasks. It’s also necessary where businesses have specific business needs to track time spent against tasks within your organization. There can be several reasons…

Introducing our new Kanban plugin for Agile workflow management with MantisHub! Highly requested and we're excited to deliver #kanban #bug tracking #agile #mantisbt #issuestracking #projectmanagement #happycustomer

Announcing MantisHub’s new Kanban plugin! Just released and exclusive to MantisHub, the Kanban plugin is a highly requested feature bringing another Agile feature to the MantisHub toolset.

Kanban may have been born in the auto industry but in the 21st century, it’s spread into many industries for project management and has most ardently been adopted in software development as a significant…

Growing with you – MantisHub plans for all teams great and small.

With plans to fit all shapes and sizes, MantisHubcan cater for your small, growing or large teams. Our fully hosted issue and bug tracking solution can meet your needs, whether you are just starting out or you need a large corporate-wide solution to support 1000 or more users. We can also offer enterprise-level on-premise solutions if you have policies requiring you to maintain an in-house…

Notice we now have #autocomplete enabled when you @mention usernames and reference issue IDs? It’s those little things that make a huge impact on #efficiency and #productivity. Read our blog for details #exclusive #mantisbt #bugtracking #taskmanagement

Just a quick note for you all. We’ve pushed out some new releases lately and one little MantisHub exclusive feature is making users very happy. Did you notice it?

Yes, it’s auto-complete! We just made @ mentioningyour teammates a little easier. You’ll see now that when you start @mentioning, you’ll get that lovely drop down list that gives our typing fingers a break, with suggestions of users…

New updates to the #mantisbt filter delivers streamlined #ui and improved #reporting. Read more in our blog

I don’t know about you but, I spend a lot of my time in the MantisHub ‘View Issues’ page when I want to find the issue or issues I need. ‘My View’ dashboard is great for showing me what I need to prioritize and what’s going on at the moment. But when it comes to getting the whole picture, the background, requirements and other related information, I jump onto the View Issues page. I’ve added…

If you're reading this I guess you already know Mantis Bug Tracker, also known as MantisBT,  one of the best open source issue trackers available on the web since eighteen (!) years ago and still rocking its way, providing a delicate balance between simplicity and power. If you don't use bug tracking software, I strongly suggest to try it at least once: once you start using it, there's an high chance that you will never go back! No, I'm not working for them and I'm not part of the development team, neither I did receive a penny for writing this: it's just that I'm a MantisBT user & administrator since 2001 and I really like the software! Anyway, if you stumbled upon here there's a high chance that you want to find a way to insert some custom content - such as PHP, HTML, JS, CSS, images and so on - within the default MantisBT template layout, which is not an easy task - unless you want to hack the Mantis core libraries, thus being unable to upgrade it anymore. Since the release of MantisBT 2.x, which featured a complete rebuild of the layout engine, the Mantis page HTML structure is created dinamically by the   file, thus making the layout HTML modding even more painful than before. Luckily enough, there are two global parameters that can be used to include files at the top and at the bottom of the page. They are explained - together with all the other options - within the MantisBT Admin Guide txt file, which is part of the MantisBT official docs: That's great, isn't it? Except that these global variables aren't working since months, as we can read in the MantisBT bug #22098. In short words, there's currently no way to add custom content (or include custom files) in a MantisBT default installation.

Introducing CustomContent Plugin

For this very reason I developed the CustomContent MantisBT plugin, wich can be used to include custom HTML, PHP, JS or CSS content within the MantisBT HTML layout structure. As I said before, it has been originally developed to provide a workaround for the MantisBT bug #22098, based upon the fact that the $g_top_include_page and $g_bottom_include_page global variables are not supported / not working anymore. Installation Installing the CustomContent plugin is very simple, you just have to follow these steps: Download the CustomContent GitHub package as a single zip file & unzip it in the /mantisbt/plugins/ folder of your current MantisBT installation. Rename the resulting folder to /CustomContent/ so that the main plugin PHP file will have the following path: /mantisbt/plugins/CustomContent/CustomContent.php. While logged into your Mantis installation as an administrator, go to Manage > Manage Plugins. In the Available Plugins list, you'll find the CustomContent plugin.

Click the Install button to install the plugin into your current MantisBT environment.

Turbo charge your team’s productivity with MantisHub. Get going in less than 2 Minutes.

For some companies a simple bug tracking tool without the hassle and complexity of installing, maintaining and supporting it in-house is the best fit. Some companies just want to get up and running now, while keeping their team focused on their business!  If a cloud solution is the best fit for you, take a look at MantisHub. Utilizing the great features and usability of the highly popular…