274067 - Saved searches created with older versions of Bugzilla cannot be forgotten.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Saved searches that were created using the older save search system in Bugzilla
version 2.16.x cannot be forgotten once a site upgrades to Bugzilla version 2.17.x

I have some old saved searches that do not have the new "&namedcmd=" parameter
in the URL.  They are the old type that stores the whole query in the URL.  
When these old versions of saved searchs are run there is no option to "forget
search".  The option is also not visible in the Edit Query page where it used to
be in 2.16

I tried creating a new saved search with the same name as the old one, but that
just created a brand new saved search with the same name.  I also tried copying
the link for forgetting one of my existing new searches and replacing the name
with the old search's name, but that did not work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have an old saved search
2. Run it

Actual Results:  
There is no option to forget the search.  There is an option to edit it, but it
can't be forgotten from that page either.

Expected Results:  
There should be an option to remove older versions of saved searches or they
should be automatically converted to the new version when they are run.

Comment 1

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

Attachment: Screenshot of the bug

Apparently the searches had to be created in an even older verison of Bugzilla
(not version 2.16.x) since I'm experiencing the same problem trying to forget
one of my old saves over at http://bugzilla.mozdev.org which runs 2.16.7.

Basically any saved search that does not have a "namedcmd" save name cannot be
forgotten.  So any saved searches created before that feature was introduced
will experience this problem.

I'm attaching a screenshot of the problem.  The "My Bugs" saved search was
created under an old version of Bugzilla and cannot be forgetten.  "All My
Bugs" was created with the new version.

Comment 2

[timeless]

this is 'fixed' in some newer version of bugzilla which bmo isn't running.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

There's two problems listed here.

First one: "My Bugs" is "special".  It's not a saved query, it's a menu item
that happens to show up in that slot.  Once of these days we'll get rid of it,
because it mostly seems to confuse people these days.  In the mean time, there's
supposed to be an option in your preferences to turn it off (in 2.16.x, it's the
Page Footer panel in preferences, in 2.18 and up it's in the Saved Searches
panel).  That option is also missing in the version we're running currently, but
it'll be there after we upgrade this weekend.

Second one: No UI to delete a query that doesn't have any results.  This is
fixed in the version of Bugzilla we'll be upgrading to this weekend.  In the
mean time, you can manage your queries from
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=saved-searches.html

Since this is fixed, but bmo doesn't have it yet, moving this bug to the
mozilla.org product, and making it dependent on the upgrade.

Comment 4

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

I didn't realize the "My Bugs" was not a saved search.  In that case my bug
report is invalid. Also since bmo is being upgraded tomorrow there's no point
leaving the bug here so I'm withdrawing it