Usability: Creating a release of a project, default to current project

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start at the node/add/fserver-release path and inspect how the field_fserver_project value is selected when a release is created. Reproduce the flow by opening a project, clicking “add new release,” and checking the project field. Done means the field defaults to the project identified by the originating URL while still allowing a different project to be selected.

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Description

After navigating to a project and then clicking to add a new release (on path node/add/fserver-release), it would be neat if the field_fserver_project field defaulted to the current project (i.e the project one was on when clicking "add new release" and the one defined by the URL ).

A couple of times I didn't check this field and took a moment to realise why my release had been applied to a different project: namely, the alpabetically-first project on my feature server, because it was the default choice in the combobox field.

I don't really know if this is possible to change with CCK (weighting a field based on some argument / condition such as what referer or something) - it'd just be a neat usability thing to know the Release you're making is by default going to apply to the project you were viewing when you clicked 'Add new release'.

Cheers :)

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