</para>
</section>
</section>
- </section>
- <section id="list">
- <title>Bug Lists</title>
+ <section id="quicksearch">
+ <title>Quicksearch</title>
- <para>If you run a search, a list of matching bugs will be returned.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ Quicksearch is a single-text-box query tool which uses
+ metacharacters to indicate what is to be searched. For example, typing
+ "<literal>foo|bar</literal>"
+ into Quicksearch would search for "foo" or "bar" in the
+ summary and status whiteboard of a bug; adding
+ "<literal>:BazProduct</literal>" would
+ search only in that product.
+ You can use it to find a bug by its number or its alias, too.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ You'll find the Quicksearch box in Bugzilla's footer area.
+ On Bugzilla's front page, there is an additional
+ <ulink url="../../page.cgi?id=quicksearch.html">Help</ulink>
+ link which details how to use it.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="list">
+ <title>Bug Lists</title>
+
+ <para>If you run a search, a list of matching bugs will be returned.
+ </para>
- <para>The format of the list is configurable. For example, it can be
- sorted by clicking the column headings. Other useful features can be
- accessed using the links at the bottom of the list:
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <emphasis>Long Format:</emphasis>
+
<para>The format of the list is configurable. For example, it can be
+ sorted by clicking the column headings. Other useful features can be
+ accessed using the links at the bottom of the list:
+ <simplelist>
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>Long Format:</emphasis>
- this gives you a large page with a non-editable summary of the fields
- of each bug.</member>
+ this gives you a large page with a non-editable summary of the fields
+ of each bug.</member>
- <member>
- <emphasis>CSV:</emphasis>
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>XML:</emphasis>
- get the buglist as comma-separated values, for import into e.g.
- a spreadsheet.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>RSS</emphasis>
+ get the buglist in the XML format.</member>
- get the buglist as an RSS 1.0 feed. Copy this link into your
- favorite feed reader. If you are using Firefox, you can also
- save the list as a live bookmark by clicking the live bookmark
- icon in the status bar. To limit the number of bugs in the feed,
- add a limit=n parameter to the URL.</member>
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>CSV:</emphasis>
- <member>
- <emphasis>iCalendar</emphasis>
+ get the buglist as comma-separated values, for import into e.g.
+ a spreadsheet.</member>
- Get the buglist as an iCalendar file. Each bug is represented as a
- to-do item in the imported calendar.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Change Columns:</emphasis>
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>Feed:</emphasis>
- change the bug attributes which appear in the list.</member>
+ get the buglist as an Atom feed. Copy this link into your
+ favorite feed reader. If you are using Firefox, you can also
+ save the list as a live bookmark by clicking the live bookmark
+ icon in the status bar. To limit the number of bugs in the feed,
+ add a limit=n parameter to the URL.</member>
- <member>
- <emphasis>Change several bugs at once:</emphasis>
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>iCalendar:</emphasis>
- If your account is sufficiently empowered, you can make the same
- change to all the bugs in the list - for example, changing their
- assignee.</member>
+ Get the buglist as an iCalendar file. Each bug is represented as a
+ to-do item in the imported calendar.</member>
- <member>
- <emphasis>Send mail to bug assignees:</emphasis>
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>Change Columns:</emphasis>
- Sends mail to the assignees of all bugs on the list.</member>
+ change the bug attributes which appear in the list.</member>
- <member>
- <emphasis>Edit Search:</emphasis>
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>Change several bugs at once:</emphasis>
- If you didn't get exactly the results you were looking for, you can
- return to the Query page through this link and make small revisions
- to the query you just made so you get more accurate results.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Remember Search As:</emphasis>
+ If your account is sufficiently empowered, and more than one bug
+ appear in the bug list, this link is displayed which lets you make
+ the same change to all the bugs in the list - for example, changing
+ their assignee.</member>
- You can give a search a name and remember it; a link will appear
- in your page footer giving you quick access to run it again later.
- </member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>Send mail to bug assignees:</emphasis>
- <para>
- If you would like to access the bug list from another program
- it is often useful to have the list returned in something other
- than HTML. By adding the ctype=type parameter into the bug list URL
- you can specify several alternate formats. The supported formats
- are: Comma Separated Values (ctype=csv), iCalendar (ctype=ics),
- RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0 (ctype=rss), ECMAScript, also known
- as JavaScript (ctype=js), and finally Resource Description Framework
- RDF/XML (ctype=rdf).
- </para>
+ If more than one bug appear in the bug list and there are at least
+ two distinct bug assignees, this links is displayed which lets you
+ easily send a mail to the assignees of all bugs on the list.</member>
+
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>Edit Search:</emphasis>
+
+ If you didn't get exactly the results you were looking for, you can
+ return to the Query page through this link and make small revisions
+ to the query you just made so you get more accurate results.</member>
+
+ <member>
+ <emphasis>Remember Search As:</emphasis>
+
+ You can give a search a name and remember it; a link will appear
+ in your page footer giving you quick access to run it again later.
+ </member>
+ </simplelist>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you would like to access the bug list from another program
+ it is often useful to have the list returned in something other
+ than HTML. By adding the ctype=type parameter into the bug list URL
+ you can specify several alternate formats. Besides the types described
+ above, the following formats are also supported: ECMAScript, also known
+ as JavaScript (ctype=js), and Resource Description Framework RDF/XML
+ (ctype=rdf).
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="individual-buglists">
+ <title>Adding individual bugs from bug lists</title>
+ <para>
+ You can at any time add individual bugs to a special type
+ of saved searches, known as <quote>lists of bugs</quote>. The distinction
+ between both types is that saved searches, as described in the previous
+ section, are stored in the form of a list of matching criteria, while
+ a list of bugs is an enumerated list of bug numbers. As it is a simple
+ list of bug numbers, you can easily edit this list by adding
+ bugs to it. To enable this feature, you have to turn on the
+ <quote>Add individual bugs to saved searches</quote> user preference,
+ see <xref linkend="userpreferences" />.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This feature is useful when you want to keep track of several bugs, but
+ for different reasons. Instead of adding yourself to the CC list of all
+ these bugs and mixing all these reasons, you can now store these bugs in
+ different lists, e.g. <quote>Bugs I want to see fixed before the next
+ release</quote>, <quote>Interesting bugs</quote>, or <quote>Bugs I have
+ to think about</quote>. One big advantage of this way to manage bug lists
+ is that you can easily add bugs one by one, which is not possible to do
+ with saved searches without having to edit the search criteria again.
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
<section id="bugreports">
</para>
</section>
- <section id="quicksearch">
- <title>Quicksearch</title>
-
- <para>Quicksearch is a single-text-box query tool which uses
- metacharacters to indicate what is to be searched. For example, typing
- "<filename>foo|bar</filename>"
- into Quicksearch would search for "foo" or "bar" in the
- summary and status whiteboard of a bug; adding
- "<filename>:BazProduct</filename>" would
- search only in that product.
- You can use it to find a bug by its number or its alias, too.
- </para>
-
- <para>You'll find the Quicksearch box in Bugzilla's footer area.
- On Bugzilla's front page, there is an additional
- <ulink url="../../page.cgi?id=quicksearch.html">Help</ulink>
- link which details how to use it.</para>
- </section>
-
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