179281 - Creating/overwriting a named query carried out search

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, defect)

Description

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

This is silly, and its a recent regression. Possibly my CGI.pm stuff again. I'm
looking into it

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

This is apparently a feature. See bug 150776, comment 11

Note that we don't get any feedback to the user though - probably adding a FLUSH
after any message would be a good idea.

I do think its silly though - what actually happens most of the time is that you
run your query, check that the results are correct, and then save it.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Well, it does do exactly what it says on the tin :-) 
"Run this query and..."

I am coming to the conclusion that named queries should be created from
buglist.cgi ("make this search a named query"), run from a dropdown list in the
footer, and managed/deleted from userprefs.cgi?tab=footer. So they would have no
UI on the query page at all, which would simplify things a lot.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

possibly, although how would you give it a name from buglist.cgi? An extra
screen? I could cope with that.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

At the bottom:

Save this query as [           ]

It would automatically appear in the footer, as would all queries, because they
wouldn't appear on the query page any more - so that's another UI simplification.

I'll write up my thoughts fully in another bug.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 179339 filed for overhaul of stored queries mechanism. Closing this bug as
WONTFIX, because the observed behaviour is as designed.

Gerv

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

clearing milestone on all DUPLICATE/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/INVALID so they'll show
up as untriaged if they get reopened.  "Jiminy Cricket!" for the filters (and I
don't care if it's spelled wrong ;)