163944 - Page should tell user if in guided mode and allow user to get in/out of guided mode.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect, P5)

Description

[Will Budreau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820

Currently the pages http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi and
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided look identical. 
Currently all "new bug" links take the user to the non-guided page, which does
not help with users who need the guidance.  There should be a visible link to
change to "guided" (or a cookie)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

-> gerv (gerv, is 'bugzilla helper' still appropriate for this,or should that
component be retired?)

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

bbaetz: well, it'll do for the moment.

This is obviously a case for some more b.m.o-specific custom templates. This
page is a bit confusing in the guided version anyway.

Myk - what do you think of the idea of the guided version having e.g. Browser,
Mail/News and Documentation at the top, then an HR, then the rest in
alphabetical order? We can then also add a link to break out of guided mode, and
one the other way too.

Gerv

Comment 3

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

Seems like a reasonable enhancement.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174298 ***

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This isn't a dupe of the bug it got duped to.  (Unless someone has some weird
connection between the two they can explain...

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Dave: See para 3 of comment #2. The connection was more in my head than in the
bug, maybe - this was the bug I was going to use to track my implementation of
what you are doing over in bug 174298.

Gerv

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is the only open bug in the Bugzilla Helper component, so moving it out
(see bug 180165).

Gerv

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[e-mail]: new users now get the guided version by default.
There is also a link from the advanced to the guided, but not the other way.
Does this allay your worries, or is there more to do here?

Gerv

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

The current behaviour is fine IMO.

Gerv

Comment 10

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

clearing target on INVALID/WORKSFORME/WONTFIX/DUPLICATE so they'll show up as
untriaged if they get reopened.