290360 - 800+ Character Report URLs are Too Long for Easy Collaboration

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 319598

(Bugzilla :: Reporting/Charting, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Bytnar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Not Applicable

Consider allowing users to save report queries, so the above 800+ character URL 
can be considerably shorter. ie:

http://mycompany.com:8080/bugzilla/storedReportURL.cgi?MikesQuery


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Generate a typical Component/Status report.
2. Email your collegue/manager the URL to the report.


Actual Results:  
1. Report generated successfully.
2. Collegue/manager complains about obscene URL length and difficulty opening 
the report.
3. Email program (MS Outlook) cannot even process a URL that long. It stopped 
highlighting the URL at "bug_status".

Expected Results:  
A shorter Report URL and/or stored Report Queries.

Stored Report Queries implies a need for access restrictions for shared or 
personal reports.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

FWIW, we usually use http://tinyurl.com/ for this, in the Bugzilla team.

Perhaps an interface to TinyURL would be a simple solution, for the Bugzilla UI.

Comment 2

[Mike Bytnar]

Confidentiality of the URL is important for proprietary or company internal 
projects.
tinyurl would potentially expose projects or products that have not been 
released to a 3rd party or competitor.

Comment 3

[Joel Peshkin]

Declutterring the URL (bug 290313) may help.  We'll have to see if it helps enough.

Comment 4

[bigstijn]

(In reply to comment #0)

> Consider allowing users to save report queries
See also bug 319598 for this.

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Mikhail, want to fix this one too? Should be a nearly identical patch to the one we just checked in.

Comment 6

[Mikhail Gusarov]

Sure, at next "ALT bugzilla maintenance & update" round.