Whiteboard plugin displays nothing if results not grouped

[kate@…]

I am using trac 0.12 on Fedora, Firefox 3.6.8 on a mac. Trac runs as regular cgi.

I enabled the plugin and can see the whiteboard link in the custom query. Make the query. Hit "Update". I see three tickets. When I click on whiteboard, no tickets are shown. If I hit "update" again, the view switches back to regular custom query view.

There are no JS errors in the console.

[CuriousCurmudgeon]

Are you grouping the results by anything? Currently the whiteboard does not display if the results are not grouped. The UI should either display the tickets in a single column or give the user some indication that the results need to be grouped. I would lean towards a message. It doesn't seem very meaningful otherwise.

[kate@…]

Yes, grouping them solves the problem. Thanks!

[Anders Hedberg]

Please add this to the wiki-page. Now I looked for a square called "whiteboard". Doing a custom query, selecting grouping, hitting update and finally "whiteboard" is not intuitive.

[Poly]

I supplied a patch (attachment:whiteboardplugin-r10481.patch​) which addresses this issue.

With this patch you will able to get an whiteboard view even without setting the "group by" in the query.

The normal result view crashed with a python dict "key error" when the owner-field was removed from the query. This patch addresses this issue too.

It also is a fix for #8795.

I propose to close this issue when the patch is in the mainline of the plugin.

[Poly]

Patch for #7633 and #8795