120603 - URL field should be intuitively clickable

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect, P3)

Description

[Jerome Lacoste]

could it be possible so that one can click somewhere that points to the value of
the URL field? I am tired of copy/paste. or did I miss someting?

If one implement that using a link (e.g. a "go" on the right side of the text box),
one has to think that the user can modify the URL field, thus not having the
same URL in the textbox and in the link.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

It already works that way.  If there is a link present inside the field, you'll
notice that the field title "URL:" is hyperlinked.  Clicking on it will go to
the link in the field.

I'm going to leave this open however, because it's definitely not intuitive. 
Everywhere else Bugzilla linkifies a field title, clicking on it gets you a
description of that field.  Thus I would expect, when clicking on the URL field
title to get a description of what the field is for.  If I already know what
it's for, I wouldn't ever click there if I didn't realize it was the url from
the field.

Maybe it should be "URL (<a href="blah">click to visit</a>):"

Comment 2

[Jerome Lacoste]

Same for me. I was so sure that the link on the field title "URL:" was pointing
to the field description as it does with the others fields that I didn't bare
trying to click on it. That's why I opened the bug.

 

Comment 3

[Devoti Paolo]

"URL" link is not working properly, look at bug 152030

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

No, the url link is working correctly - you're missing the http://. bugzilla
helper needs to be updated, and tehres a separate bug on that.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The User Interface component now belongs to Gerv.  Reassigning all UNCONFIRMED
and NEW (but not ASSIGNED) bugs currently owned by Myk (the previous component
owner) to Gerv.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning back to Myk.  That stuff about Gerv taking over the User Interface
component turned out to be short-lived.  Please pardon our confusion, and I'm
very sorry about the spam.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Enhancements which don't currently have patches on them which are targetted at
2.18 are being retargetted to 2.20 because we're about to freeze for 2.18. 
Consideration will be taken for moving items back to 2.18 on a case-by-case
basis (but is unlikely for enhancements)

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

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

justdave in comment #1
> It already works that way.  If there is a link present inside the field, you'll
> notice that the field title "URL:" is hyperlinked.  Clicking on it will go to
> the link in the field.

holy toledo!   I can get 50 cents for every URL I copied in the past 2 years?


> *I'm going to leave this open however, because it's definitely not intuitive.*
> Everywhere else Bugzilla linkifies a field title, clicking on it gets you a
> description of that field.  Thus I would expect, when clicking on the URL field
> title to get a description of what the field is for.  If I already know what
> it's for, I wouldn't ever click there if I didn't realize it was the url from
> the field.
> 
> Maybe it should be "URL (<a href="blah">click to visit</a>):"

2 ideas:

* URL string be followed by "(visit)", ala the "(edit)" indicators on the new UI.

* add a small icon/widget that indicates a clickable, external link, ala wiki style.

Hidden and nonstandard UI both bad, so IMO "URL" should change to a description like everything else and changing bug severity.  (may Gerv be merciful)

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

might want to keep bug 86978** in mind when devising the solution to this. 

**could URLs be separated by space to achieve multiple URLs, and avoid changing a lot of logic associated with URL fields?

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

adding justdave's dependency from bug 365312

(should bugzilla warn if the dupee bug has dependencies that will be lost - a whine like "dependencies marked in bug xyz will not be transferred to bug zyx"?  I only accidentally noticed the dep, and might have missed it like Frederic did )

Comment 13

[Aleksey Nogin]

From dup bug 365312 - when the user does not have permissions to edit the URL (or is not logged in), the URL itself (which is displayed as text) should be linkified, in addition to the "URL" field header.

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dup this also to bug 372966?

Comment 15

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Yeah, that makes sense.

Comment 16

[Frédéric Buclin]

May be fixed by bug 372966, but in no case a dupe. Especially because I want it fixed in 3.0.x.

Comment 17

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I don't think any aspect of this bug could be considered a "regression".

Gerv

Comment 18

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I don't see how this is a bug-fix, and thus worthy of being in Bugzilla 3.0.

Comment 19

[Frédéric Buclin]

Fixed in Bugzilla 3.1.3 as part of bug 374020. Now that we already released the 3rd minor update on the 3.0 branch, I don't think we need to fix the UI there.