118805 - Provide bookmarkable static URL of a generated buglist

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Jeff Lawson]

Commonly it is useful to be able to use an URL in an email or webpage that 
references a list of bugs.  Although it is possible to provide a buglist.cgi 
link that performs the same query again, since bug states may change the 
resulting list of bugs may be different.

It is also possible to manually craft an URL that explicitly contains the bug 
numbers (ie: buglist.cgi?bug_id=3210,3211,3212) however creating this URL by 
hand is error-prone and time-consuming.

It would be a nice improvement if the bottom of all buglist pages included a 
convenience link to buglist URL that explicitly lists all of the resulting 
bugids for the purposes of bookmarking/redistribution.

Comment 1

[Jeff Lawson]

Attachment: patch that provides a new "Generate bookmarkable query of this list" link

This patch adds a link labelled "Generate bookmarkable query of this list" to
the bottom of buglist.cgi results, with an URL in the format of 
"buglist.cgi?bug_id=x,y,z"

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

I am not sure I understand your idea correctly. I found this bug here while I
wanted to suggest the following: Allow for a bugzilla user ot add bugs to a
"bookmark list" assigned to the user-id. Is this the same?

pi

Comment 3

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

It's kind of the same, except they are shareable.  I would like to see this
eventually implemented with personal keywords that are shareable (by other
people referring to them as [e-mail]:mykeyword or something), but in
the meantime this sounds like it might be useful to put somewhere.

Comment 4

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

See also bug 95722 ("[RFE] Separate queries and buglists"). Is this the same?

Comment 5

[Jeff Lawson]

The original attachment 46610 [details] [diff] [review] included bug 95722 is basically the same as this 
patch. 

Comment 6

[Jeff Lawson]

Attachment: updated patch that utilizes new template bug list

This new version of the patch no longer needs any changes to the Perl code and
is fully limited to just the page template markup.

Comment 7

[Joel Peshkin]

These bugs appear to be abandoned.  Retargeting to 2.20

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Bugzilla 2.20 feature set is now frozen as of 15 Sept 2004.  Anything flagged
enhancement that hasn't already landed is being pushed out.  If this bug is
otherwise ready to land, we'll handle it on a case-by-case basis, please set the
blocking2.20 flag to '?' if you think it qualifies.

Comment 9

[Jeff Lawson]

Attachment: updated patch against bugzilla version 3.0.3

Comment 10

[Frédéric Buclin]

I'm not sure we should have it work this way. Now that we can tag bugs, we should rather tag all bugs in the list and save them as such. And the code must be against CVS HEAD code as we won't take any new feature in Bugzilla 3.0.3.

Comment 11

[Teemu Mannermaa (:wicked)]

Comment on attachment 296254 [details] [diff] [review]
updated patch against bugzilla version 3.0.3

>Index: template/en/default/list/list.html.tmpl
>===================================================================
>+        <a href="buglist.cgi?bug_id=[% FOREACH bug = bugs %][% "," IF loop.count() > 1 %][% bug.bug_id %][% END %]">Generate a bookmarkable query of this static list</a>

This failes test #8 with error:
template/en/default/list/list.html.tmpl has unfiltered directives: bug.bug_id

I think this should really be added as a new link to the "buglist links" in the footer and not as a new entry. There's also a hook one can use to add this to their own installations if this feature won't make it.

Additionally, this should be renamed to something short and clear (uh, generate?). Maybe "Bookmarkable", "Static buglist", "Bookmarkable list" or something better.

Comment 13

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

This will be solved as part of Bug 1496879.