250519 - can't edit saved searches tied to email account after changing email address

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 232176

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, defect)

Description

[Richard Corbin]

I have recently changed my bugzilla email account from [e-mail]
to [e-mail] (emails are obviously fakes). Anyhow, this has
created quite a problem for me. I had a few saved searches (links) at the bottom
of the screen. 3 of the searches are now completely broken and don't allow me to
repair/delete them.

The reason they are broken is because in changing my email address I have
stopped the searches returning anything (I wasn't aware / didn't think this
would happen). The 3 searches all involved my old email (i.e. "All my bugs",
"Firefox bugs I'm involved in", and "My fixed bugs"). As these reference
[e-mail] (and not [e-mail]) they fall over
giving me the message:

"The name [e-mail] is not a valid username. Either you
misspelled it, or the person has not registered for a Bugzilla account."

This would make sense if I was doing any other type of search because I could
hit back and try a new search, because it is a saved search I have no way to
edit/delete this search now that my email address has changed.

So I am stuck with these 3 searches at the bottom under Saved Searches, and can
do nothing to remove them.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a report using your email only (so it only finds bugs with your email in).
2. Run report confirming it returns data.
3. Save this report.
4. Change you account email
5. Re-run saved report

Actual Results:
Cannot view/edit/delete search (i.e. the error message above gets displayed).

Expected Results:
Should be given option to edit search or delete search. (Or if searches were
really clever they'd update the emails when a user changes their email).

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

fyi, you can delete your saved searches with this incantation:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=saved-searches.html

Comment 2

[Richard Corbin]

(In reply to comment #1)
> fyi, you can delete your saved searches with this incantation:
> 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=saved-searches.html

Thanks, maybe the link to that page should be provided at the end of the error
message...

like "... If this saved search is old, please visit << this page >> to delete."

and link thru to the saved searches page. I never knew that page existed, but
thanks :-)

Comment 3

[:glob ✱]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232176 ***

Comment 4

[timeless]

wrong bug.

Comment 5

[timeless]

oh sorry, i was thinking about bug 240236, but bug 232176 is correct.

Comment 6

[David Balažic]

I have this (or similar) problem.

I changed my email.

All the stored searches I have refer to the old email (thus finding no results; I don't get an error, just an empty result list).

The saved searches are listed on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=saved-searches where there is an "Edit" link next to each. Clicking it shows the search form, where I can edit the search terms, but there is no "Save" button. I can only run the search (by clicking the "Search" button) or set it as my default search options.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

(In reply to David Balažic from comment #6)

The saved searches are listed on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=saved-searches where there is an "Edit" link next to each. Clicking it shows the search form, where I can edit the search terms, but there is no "Save" button. I can only run the search (by clicking the "Search" button) or set it as my default search options.

Once you've run the search, there should be an option at the bottom to save it. If you save it with the same name, it will overwrite the one you already had. So saved searches don't actually have a problem there.

To clarify this bug, if your saved search causes an error, there's no way to edit the search without going through the preference panel to find it. The error messages from a search should check if it was running a saved search, and if so, give you the link to edit the search after the error message.