To track issues related to Research and Innovation funding, we want to ensure that all issues can be "related" to a particular research/innovation initiative. One possible solution was to create a unique Issue Type for the research initiatives, then add a relationship type that specifically allows you to associate with the research initiative issue type (there would be a maximum of ten open initiatives at a time, across two different funding programs).
In concert with that, we could create a dashboard showing:
- All Issues related to each initiative, and
- Any new issues that do not have an initiative relation.
Additional Challenges:
- The list of initiatives changes each year, so the available list needs to update based on which ones are active at the time.
- The vast majority of our users should not have the ability to interact with the initiatives directly, outside of selecting them for association.
Questions:
- Is the setup I described above possible?
- Any competing ideas for how to set this up, and allow a user to have a dashboard as above? (It would be the user who does work with coordinating those initiatives.)
