235599 - Quicksearch features: additional conditions and prefix-like restrictions

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

See bug 234464 for the context of this bug.

This is about how to restrict your search with additional conditions.


Google behaviour (see http://www.google.com/help/operators.html ,
                      http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html ,
                      http://www.google.com/help/basics.html ):
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* Domain Restrict (and other prefix-like query modifiers):

  Google offers prefixes like site:..., intitle:..., inurl:... to restrict the
  search to pages where the given word occurs in a certain (meta-)data field.

  Starting the search with the word allintitle: or allinurl: will treat the
  query as if all terms were prefixed with intitle: or inurl: respectively.

* Search By Category

  The Google Web Directory (located at directory.google.com) has a search box
  on each page for searching only in pages belonging to that category.


Quicksearch (see http://www.squarefree.com/bugzilla/quicksearch-help.html ):
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* Field Restricts:

  Quicksearch offers a prefix for each bugzilla field.
    summary:  description:  url:  whiteboard:  keyword:  
    product:  component:  version:  platform:  os:
    status:  resolution:  severity:  priority:  milestone:  votes: 
    reporter:  owner:  qa:  cc: 
    attachdesc:  attachdata:  attachmimetype:

  There is no mechanism (yet) to make a prefix apply to several or all search
  terms.  One could think of e.g. adding a query modifier "alsoincomments:" to
  include the long description / comments in the default set of searched fields
  for the whole query, but so far this was not considered necessary.

* Search By Category

  This corresponds to having a special search box for each product & component,
  e.g. on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Bugzilla .
  These are not available (yet?), but quicksearch offers a shortcut for
  restricting a search to a specific product or component (e.g. :bugzilla).