Updating Trac Components

Overview

If a Trac component name has a space in it, it cannot be edited through the Trac Admin interface (Trac > Admin > Components)

Workflow

Update the component name using sqlite3

• Open Powershell.
• Navigate to the Trac installation directory.
• Trac uses a sqlite3 database, located in the db directory in the Trac installation directory.
• sqlite3 [trac-database.db]
• Rename components with update component set name = 'new name' where name = 'old name';
• Update tickets to reflect the changes: update ticket set component = 'new name' where component = 'old name';
• Quit sqlite3 with .quit

Refreshing the Trac cache

Trac caches the component names. For example, when creating or editing a custom query, the component dropdown options will not be updated with the current values in the sqlite3 component table.

To refresh the Trac cache, touch the Trac ini file:

• Open Powershell.
• Navigate to the Trac installation directory.
• cd conf\
• touch trac.ini