Hi Sankar, That'd be a great feature to add. We don't have any plans for it ourselves (our focus tends to be on core Review Board, RBTools, etc.). You could implement this as a custom extension or as a patch on top of the rbnotefield extension.
Christian -- Christian Hammond President/CEO of Beanbag <https://www.beanbaginc.com/> Makers of Review Board <https://www.reviewboard.org/> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Sankar R <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to populate default data in the "Note to Reviewers" text > box by default. What I am looking is populate the checklist in this text > box and the developer answers yer/no. > > Thanks > Sankar R > > On Thursday, 18 August 2016 02:27:00 UTC+5:30, Christian Hammond wrote: >> >> Hi Terry, >> >> The content of that field is stored in the review request draft's >> "extra_data" dictionary, which unfortunately cannot be modified using rbt >> post (though that'd be a good feature addition -- going to record that). It >> can be modified during an HTTP POST/PUT by setting: >> >> extra_data.beanbag_notefield_notes=<content> >> >> You can also set the Markdown state with: >> >> extra_data.beanbag_notefield_notes_text_type=plain|markdown >> >> The values will be propagated to the draft. >> >> There is a bug currently with the fields involving the text type >> propaogation from draft to review request where the value gets dropped on >> the floor. This is going to be fixed in 2.5.7 (see >> https://reviews.reviewboard.org/r/8263/) >> >> Christian >> >> -- >> Christian Hammond >> President/CEO of Beanbag <https://www.beanbaginc.com/> >> Makers of Review Board <https://www.reviewboard.org/> >> >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Dunnigan, Terrence J < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> >>> I have a question about the ‘Note to Reviewers >>> <https://www.reviewboard.org/store/products/rbnotefield/>’ extension. >>> Can I populate the field when creating a review request using rbtools? >>> >>> >>> >>> Currently I do something like this when I generate a peer review: >>> >>> >>> >>> rbt post --summary=”My first review request” >>> --description-file=”description.txt” >>> >>> >>> >>> Can I also specify my ‘Note to Reviewers’ text as a command line >>> argument to rbt post? >>> >>> >>> >>> If not, can I update the field via the API? Can I update it via the API >>> while the review request is still a draft? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> >>> Terry >>> >>> -- >>> Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: >>> https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ >>> Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: >>> https://rbcommons.com/ >>> Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "reviewboard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
