160572 - You should be able to turn off URL, Platform, OS, Version fields in Bugzilla

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Stromberg]

I think you should be able to turn these fields off. When Bugzilla is used as a
generic task tracking system, these fields are pretty worthless.

I've gone ahead and hacked away at the templates (and a little code) to allow
for these fields to be given "use<blah>" options in the Parameters screen. Will
attach once diff is generated.

Comment 1

[Thomas Stromberg]

Attachment: Patch against 2.16 to disable/enable URL, Platform, OS, and Version

Patches against:

+++ ./defparams.pl	Thu Aug  1 14:58:18 2002
+++ ./editproducts.cgi	Thu Aug  1 16:31:08 2002
+++ ./template/en/default/bug/create/create.html.tmpl	Thu Aug  1 15:09:50
2002
+++ ./template/en/default/bug/edit.html.tmpl	Thu Aug  1 15:41:05 2002
+++ ./template/en/default/search/form.html.tmpl Thu Aug  1 16:24:20 2002

I really should have done this for HEAD and backported, guess I'll have some
extra work to do.

Comment 2

[Thomas Stromberg]

Attachment: Patch against HEAD to disable/enable URL, Platform, OS, and Version

A patch against CVS today. Not much interference other than the addition of the
quick keys in the templates.

I did close one unclosed </TR> in editproducts.cgi with this patch as well,
since it was in the modified areas.

Comment 3

[Thomas Stromberg]

Comment on attachment 93616 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch against 2.16 to disable/enable URL, Platform, OS, and Version

Marking 2.16 patch as obsolete. If you would like to use it, be sure to add the
missing hidden version=unspecified to line 272.

Comment 4

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

i haven't been able to find a similar bug, which would allow easier creation of
similar options. for instance, while i don't particularly need to know Platform
or OS, i'd really like to have a Hostname field that i can set up. right now,
it's a headache to go through all the individual places where the hardcoded
fields show up to replace them by hand.

does this merit a separate bug, or is my description a dupe of an existing bug i
just couldn't find?

Comment 5

[Thomas Stromberg]

Attachment: Patch against HEAD (2.17.1) to disable URL, Platform, OS, and Version

Everything seems gold. For whatever reason, I have to manually edit my
data/params file the first time around to actually use this, otherwise
editparams.cgi doesn't totally process things.

Comment 6

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

*** Bug 181833 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Shankar Unni]

So, is this planned to be picked up for any upcoming Bugzilla version? It seems
like an important one (esp. the URL parameter, which is meaningless for most
products).

Comment 8

[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 9

[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 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

myk: not sure why you requested review on this. a) it's most likely bitrotted,
and b), I would have thought that custom fields or, in the short term, css
classes and display:none would be a better way to fix this.

Gerv

Comment 11

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

(In reply to comment #10)
> myk: not sure why you requested review on this.

Because I'd rather have patches sitting in a review queue if the goal is to get
them into Bugzilla, even if I don't have time to review them at the moment.


> a) it's most likely bitrotted

If so, then the review is easy. :-)


> and b), I would have thought that custom fields or, in the short term, css
> classes and display:none would be a better way to fix this.

I'm not holding anything for custom fields anymore.  The CSS class approach,
however, is a good point, especially if there's a way to toggle all occurrences
of the fields by changing a single class.

Comment 12

[Christian Reis]

Comment on attachment 106594 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch against HEAD (2.17.1) to disable URL, Platform, OS, and Version

(Why am I reviewing a file that contains a "my $f*ck" inlined in it?)

These changes are slightly bitrotten. There is commented code. I don't think it
is the correct approach to solve this problem -- I agree with Gerv (hah) that
we either want to disable stuff via flexible bug schema, or by avoiding display
in CSS, *or* by providing a way to generate only the bits of the page that we
want by using something smarter than a set of ifs. 

I'm happy to hear other opinions, or course.

Comment 13

[Christian Reis]

I forgot to say: it also adds FOUR params. It's not really a scalable solution
-- it just perpetuates what's best exemplified by targetmilestones;
special-casing everywhere. 

Comment 14

[Frédéric Buclin]

As soon as bug 449161 is fixed, you will be able to hide the OS and platform fields.

Comment 15

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Who is this mythical "you" that should be able to "turn off" URL, platform, etc?
The individual newbie user?
The site administrator for all products?
The administrator of a single product?

Comment 16

[Shankar Unni]

Generally just the site administrator. That would provide about 90% of the bang right there. 

The others get progressively more complex for less return.

Comment 18

[Arunas]

Any updates on this issue?.. 4.1 and still not implemented...  seems like the other issue that this is dependable on haven't been touched for awhile https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449161

Would love to have OS and Platform options to disable without editing templates.

Thanks for the great work.

Comment 19

[mmoya]

Does anybody knows how to remove URL and OS manually by editing the files?

Comment 20

[alexminglai]

(In reply to Arunas from comment #18)
> Any updates on this issue?.. 4.1 and still not implemented...  seems like
> the other issue that this is dependable on haven't been touched for awhile
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449161
> 
> Would love to have OS and Platform options to disable without editing
> templates.
> 
> Thanks for the great work.

I am using Bugzilla 3.6.  I am having the same situation to hide the Version, OS and Platform.  I have playing with the create template.  When I comment off the Version which required when submit a bug that cause error.  Then I try to use CSS to hide but not remove the fields from the template.  It did not work.  I hope to find a clear instruction.  Anyone have any suggestion?

Alex Lai