Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:55:31 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/4895 Number comments for easier reference It would be helpful to number comments for easier reference, especially in the following scenarios: 1. Discussing a ticket over the phone while both parties are looking at the ticket online 2. Responding to multiple comments in a single comment block I see at least two ways to do this: 1. Simply use the value from whups_comments.comment_id + Easy to implement - Not guaranteed to be sequential 2. When rendering, number the comments with oldest = 1 + Easy to implement - Comment #s may be inaccurate if comment is deleted 3. Uniquely number comments within a ticket + Resilient to deletions of comments - More difficult to implement I personally wouldn't mind #1, but I know that will confuse many, if not most, users. I don't immediately recall anyway to delete comments from the UI (perhaps that should be another ticket?), so #2 would work fine except for when deleted out from under whups in the db directly. #3 is probably the best way to go. Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:33:42 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/4895#t28507 Probably useful for things like comment feeds and for making nicer interfaces involving links to tickets. Wouldn't be hard to do if we created a sequence for each ticket, but that'd be a _lot_ of sequences. Probably easier to have a table of sequences with two columns: ticket_id and comment_sequence. Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:17:06 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/4895#t28579 > Probably useful for things like comment feeds and for making nicer > interfaces involving links to tickets. Recommend cross-linking using URI fragments: Examples for how to access comment #242: 1. Direct access via a URL: http://example.com/horde/whups/ticket/?id=142&Horde=MD5HORDEID#242 2. Comment text like this: "Issue 431#242" gets turned into URL like above. > Wouldn't be hard to do if we > created a sequence for each ticket, but that'd be a _lot_ of > sequences. Probably easier to have a table of sequences with two > columns: ticket_id and comment_sequence. Yep: CREATE TABLE whups_comment_sequences { ticket_id INTEGER NOT NULL, next_comment_number INTEGER NOT NULL } Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:09:45 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/4895#t28676 Implemented #2. I personally think that's sufficient, because even if deleting comments, this shouldn't happen too often (mostly as a spam protection), so a comment number shift shouldn't hurt too much. Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:54:00 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/4895#t43650 Looks good to me. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:32:46 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/4895#t44426