263529 - Sending URL of Query to someone else can have problems with sort order

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252329

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[Peter Kay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Moonhare/0.10 (All your Firefox/0.10 are belong to Firesomething)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Moonhare/0.10 (All your Firefox/0.10 are belong to Firesomething)

If you send the URL of a particular Bugzilla query to someone (who has never
accessed Bugzilla), you can get an error message related to the sort order:

"The custom sort order specified in your form submission contains an invalid
column name Reuse same sort as last time."



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Be a regular user of Bugzilla, and be logged in.
2.  Do some search, and get a result (e.g.,
http://your.buzilla.server.net/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&resolution=INVALID&resolution=WONTFIX&resolution=LATER&resolution=REMIND&resolution=DUPLICATE&resolution=WORKSFORME&resolution=MOVED&resolution=---&emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=tlee&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=).
3.  Copy the browser URL and send it your friend down the hall who has never
used Bugzilla in per life.
Actual Results:  
4.  When he (or she) tries to open the URL, he/she gets an error:

 The custom sort order specified in your form submission contains an invalid
column name <i?Reuse same sort as last time</i>.

Expected Results:  
Bugzilla should revert to the default sort order.

Workaround:  Edit the URL to take out the &order= section.

I don't know that that qualifies as an "easy" workaround for novice computer
users, but I'll still mark this Minor.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252329 ***