How to add a link (inside Mantis) to a note/comment?

Question

Creating a link to an issue in Mantis is done via the hash symbol # followed by the issue number.

• Example: #123

How do I link to a note?

Guthrey

This feature is annoying to me. Can I turn that off? It should be off by default IMO. – Ja

don't know if you can turn it off. in case not, you could use $g_bugnote_link_tag to customize it to something else than the default ~. – Guthrey

Yes I changed it, I think to false or something, or ### etc, I think it works so far. – Ja

Answer 1

Use the ~ symbol, i.e ~42 to link to the bugnote with the id 42. The prefix is configurable using the $g_bugnote_link_tag setting.

A little clarification, if needed, taken from here: the ~ notation works a little different according to MantisBT version. In 1.1.x shows only the NoteID (e.g., 0026006), but since 1.2.x and above, the link was changed to IssueID:NoteID (e.g., 0009261:0026006).

Yellowgreen

Is there a way to link to an attachment/image from the note? – Rauscher

@AgnelKurian you can simply copy/paste the link from the "Attached Files" section, but I don't think there's a way to quick link like the # or ~. There'a also some html support by default under $g_html_valid_tags. And of course plugins which may do this. – Leavis

@scipilot, If I copy and paste links, and later I have to move my Mantis installation to a new server or directory, the links become invalid. – Rauscher

Answer 2

Form this : http://inform7.com/mantis/view.php?id=259 :

 Also for future reference: you can link to another issue by prefixing
 the issue number with #, or link to a comment by prefixing the comment
 number with ~.


 # 259 (without the space) => 0000259
 ~ 559 (without the space) => 0000259:0000559

Heliogabalus

Is there actual documentation on this? It would be nice if you didn't have to search the bugtracker's bugtracker to discover the syntax of your bugtracker. :s – Porfirioporgy

@tkh Yes, there is a cheatsheet: github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet – Fatherless