211985 - Allow multiple products to be moved under new master product

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Joseph Bourque]

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I would like to move existing products to components of a new product. Now that 
our applications have grown I would like to clean up the list of products 
without losing the bugs that are associated with each app. Many applications 
have been bundled into a major application I would like all those products to 
be components of the new application. Is this possible now or in a future 
release.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

1) Create a component in the new product that matches the old product
2) Run a query that retrieves all bugs in the old product
3) Click "Change several bugs at once" at the bottom of the query
4) Click the "Check All" button
5) Change the product popup menu to the new product
6) Click the "Commit" button
7) Choose the new component and other product-specific fields
8) Click the "Commit" button.
9) Delete the old product

You may need to repeat steps 2 through 8 individually with specific queries if
you need to preserve milestones and versions...  this is the reason I'm leaving
the bug open, because it would be nice if there was a way to mass move things
between products without having to do them individually to avoid putting them
all in the same milestone/version.

Comment 2

[Veda Larson Palmer]

It would be very helpful if the milestones and versions could be preserved when 
they already exist in the new product (i.e. identical strings).

This could be an option on the "Verify Version, Component, Target Milestone" 
page, e.g. "keep old value if it exists in the new product" with a checkbox 
under each of the Version, Component, and Target menus.

I think that this would nicely solve what Joe and I are trying to do.

Comment 3

[u430950]

Classifications is the "master product" that fulfills the needs of this bug.