While MantisBT is a great bug tracker, there are a number of settings that aren’t available in the standard user interface. Typically you need access to the config_inc.php file on the server. Rather than make you learn PHP there is a new management page available from your settings page:

• Click the “Manage Global Settings” link and you’ll see the new options you can control.

Signup

• Allow Signup: allow users to signup for their own accounts
• Lost Password Feature: Setting to disable the ‘lost your password’ feature

Email

• Administrator Email: Administrator Email address
• Webmaster Email: Webmaster email
• From Email: the sender email, part of ‘From: ‘ header in emails
• From Name: the sender name, part of ‘From: ‘ header in emails
• Return Path Email: the return address for bounced mail

Display Settings

• Window Title: browser window title
• Admin Checks: Check for admin directory, database upgrades, etc.
• Enable Project Documentation: Specifies whether to enable support for project documents or not
• Show Footer Menu: Display another instance of the menu at the bottom. The top menu will still remain.
• Show Project Menu Bar: show extra menu bar with all available projects
• Show Assigned Names: show assigned to names. This is in the view all pages.
• Show Priority Text: If ON shows priority as text. If OFF shows priority as icon.
• Show Bug Project Links: show projects when in All Projects mode
• Status Percentage Legend: Show a legend with percentage of bug status. x% of all bugs are new, y% of all bugs are assigned and so on. If set to ON it will printed below the status color legend.
• Show Realname: show users with their real name or not
• Sort by Last Name: sorting for names in dropdown lists. If turned on, ‘Jane Doe’ will be sorted with the ‘D’s
• Show Avatar: Show user avatar. the current implementation is based on http://www.gravatar.com users will need to register there the same address used in this MantisBT installation to have their avatar shown.
• Show Changelog Dates: Show release dates on changelog
• Show Roadmap Dates: Show release dates on roadmap

Field Visibility

• Enable Eta: Enable or disable usage of the ETA field.
• Enable Projection: Enable or disable usage of the Projection field.
• Enable Product Build: Enable or disable usage of the Product Build field.

Misc

• Allow No Category: Allow a bug to have no category
• Limit Reporters: Set to ON if you wish to limit reporters to only viewing bugs that they report.
• Allow Close Immediately: Allow developers and above to close bugs immediately when resolving bugs
• Allow Reporter Close: Allow reporters to close the bugs they reported, after they’re marked resolved.
• Allow Reporter Reopen: Allow reporters to reopen the bugs they reported, after they’re marked resolved.
• Allow Reporter Upload: Allow reporters to upload attachments to bugs they reported.
• Allow Account Delete: Allow users to delete their own accounts

RSS

• Rss Enabled: This flag enables or disables RSS syndication. In the case where RSS syndication is not used, it is recommended to set it to OFF.

Twitter

• Twitter Username: The twitter account user name. The integration with twitter allows for a MantisBT installation to post updates to a twitter account. This feature will be disabled if username is empty.
• Twitter Password: The twitter account password.

Subprojects

• Show Extended Project Browser: Shows only top projects in the project dropdown and adds an extra dropdown for subprojects.
• Subprojects Inherit Categories: Sub-projects should inherit categories from parent projects.
• Subprojects Inherit Versions: Sub-projects should inherit versions from parent projects.

Time Tracking

• Time Tracking Enabled: Turn on Time Tracking accounting
• Time Tracking with Billing: A billing sums
• Time Tracking Stopwatch: Stop watch to build time tracking field
• Time Tracking Without Note: allow time tracking to be recorded without a bugnote