<section id="userpreferences">
<title>User Preferences</title>
- <para>Once you have logged in, you can customize various aspects of
- Bugzilla via the "Edit prefs" link in the page footer.
- The preferences are split into three tabs:</para>
-
- <section id="accountpreferences" xreflabel="Account Preferences">
- <title>Account Preferences</title>
-
- <para>On this tab, you can change your basic account information,
- including your password, email address and real name. For security
- reasons, in order to change anything on this page you must type your
- <emphasis>current</emphasis>
- password into the
- <quote>Password</quote>
- field at the top of the page.
- If you attempt to change your email address, a confirmation
- email is sent to both the old and new addresses, with a link to use to
- confirm the change. This helps to prevent account hijacking.</para>
- </section>
+ <para>
+ Once logged in, you can customize various aspects of
+ Bugzilla via the "Preferences" link in the page footer.
+ The preferences are split into five tabs:</para>
<section id="generalpreferences" xreflabel="General Preferences">
<title>General Preferences</title>
<para>
- This tab allows you to change several Bugzilla behavior.
+ This tab allows you to change several default settings of Bugzilla.
</para>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Bugzilla's general appearance (skin) - select which skin to use.
+ Bugzilla supports adding custom skins.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Field separator character for CSV files -
- This controls separator character used in CSV formatted Bug List.
+ Select between a comma and semi-colon for exported CSV bug lists.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Automatically add me to the CC list of bugs I change - set default
+ behavior of CC list. Options include "Always", "Never", and "Only
+ if I have no role on them".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Language used in email - select which language email will be sent in,
+ from the list of available languages.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- After changing bugs - This controls which bugs or no bugs
- are shown in the page after you changed bugs.
- You can select the bug you've changed this time, or the next
- bug of the list.
+ After changing a bug - This controls what page is displayed after
+ changes to a bug are submitted. The options include to show the bug
+ just modified, to show the next bug in your list, or to do nothing.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add individual bugs to saved searches - this controls
- whether you can add individual bugs to saved searches
- or you can't.
+ Enable tags for bugs - turn bug tagging on or off.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
When viewing a bug, show comments in this order -
- This controls the order of comments, you can select below:
- <simplelist>
- <member>Initial description, comment 1, comment 2, ...</member>
- <member>Initial description, last comment, ..., comment 2, comment 1.</member>
- <member>Initial last comment, ..., comment 2, comment 1, description.</member>
- </simplelist>
+ controls the order of comments. Options include "Oldest
+ to Newest", "Newest to Oldest" and "Newest to Oldest, but keep the
+ bug description at the top".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Show a quip at the top of each bug list - controls
+ whether a quip will be shown on the Bug list page.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Show a quip at the top of each bug list - This controls
- whether a quip will be shown on the Bug list page or not.
+ Zoom textareas large when in use (requires JavaScript) - enable or
+ disable the automatic expanding of text areas when text is being
+ entered into them.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<title>Email Preferences</title>
<para>
- This tab controls the amount of email Bugzilla sends you.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The first item on this page is marked <quote>Users to watch</quote>.
- When you enter one or more comma-delineated user accounts (usually email
- addresses) into the text entry box, you will receive a copy of all the
- bugmail those users are sent (security settings permitting).
- This powerful functionality enables seamless transitions as developers
- change projects or users go on holiday.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- The ability to watch other users may not be available in all
- Bugzilla installations. If you don't see this feature, and feel
- that you need it, speak to your administrator.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- Each user listed in the <quote>Users watching you</quote> field
- has you listed in their <quote>Users to watch</quote> list
- and can get bugmail according to your relationship to the bug and
- their <quote>Field/recipient specific options</quote> setting.
+ This tab allows you to enable or disable email notification on
+ specific events.
</para>
<para>
<note>
<para>
- Your Bugzilla administrator can stop a user from receiving
- bugmail by adding the user's name to the
- <filename>data/nomail</filename> file. This is a drastic step
+ A Bugzilla administrator can stop a user from receiving
+ bugmail by clicking the <quote>Bugmail Disabled</quote> checkbox
+ when editing the user account. This is a drastic step
best taken only for disabled accounts, as it overrides
the user's individual mail preferences.
</para>
</note>
+ <para>
+ There are two global options -- <quote>Email me when someone
+ asks me to set a flag</quote> and <quote>Email me when someone
+ sets a flag I asked for</quote>. These define how you want to
+ receive bugmail with regards to flags. Their use is quite
+ straightforward; enable the checkboxes if you want Bugzilla to
+ send you mail under either of the above conditions.
+ </para>
+
<para>
If you'd like to set your bugmail to something besides
'Completely ON' and 'Completely OFF', the
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
<note>
<para>
Some columns may not be visible for your installation, depending
</note>
<para>
- Two items not in the table (<quote>Email me when someone
- asks me to set a flag</quote> and <quote>Email me when someone
- sets a flag I asked for</quote>) define how you want to
- receive bugmail with regards to flags. Their use is quite
- straightforward; enable the checkboxes if you want Bugzilla to
- send you mail under either of the above conditions.
+ Bugzilla has a feature called <quote>Users Watching</quote>.
+ When you enter one or more comma-delineated user accounts (usually email
+ addresses) into the text entry box, you will receive a copy of all the
+ bugmail those users are sent (security settings permitting).
+ This powerful functionality enables seamless transitions as developers
+ change projects or users go on holiday.
</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ The ability to watch other users may not be available in all
+ Bugzilla installations. If you don't see this feature, and feel
+ that you need it, speak to your administrator.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
<para>
- By default, Bugzilla sends out email regardless of who made the
- change... even if you were the one responsible for generating
- the email in the first place. If you don't care to receive bugmail
- from your own changes, check the box marked <quote>Only email me
- reports of changes made by other people</quote>.
+ Each user listed in the <quote>Users watching you</quote> field
+ has you listed in their <quote>Users to watch</quote> list
+ and can get bugmail according to your relationship to the bug and
+ their <quote>Field/recipient specific options</quote> setting.
</para>
</section>
+ <section id="savedsearches" xreflabel="Saved Searches">
+ <title>Saved Searches</title>
+ <para>
+ On this tab you can view and run any Saved Searches that you have
+ created, and also any Saved Searches that other members of the group
+ defined in the "querysharegroup" parameter have shared.
+ Saved Searches can be added to the page footer from this screen.
+ If somebody is sharing a Search with a group she or he is allowed to
+ <link linkend="groups">assign users to</link>, the sharer may opt to have
+ the Search show up in the footer of the group's direct members by default.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="accountpreferences" xreflabel="Name and Password">
+ <title>Name and Password</title>
+
+ <para>On this tab, you can change your basic account information,
+ including your password, email address and real name. For security
+ reasons, in order to change anything on this page you must type your
+ <emphasis>current</emphasis> password into the <quote>Password</quote>
+ field at the top of the page.
+ If you attempt to change your email address, a confirmation
+ email is sent to both the old and new addresses, with a link to use to
+ confirm the change. This helps to prevent account hijacking.</para>
+ </section>
+
<section id="permissionsettings">
<title>Permissions</title>
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