294708 - Need way to "remember" multiple "Change column" settings

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement)

Description

[Will Budreau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Currnetly, "Change Columns" affects all queries.
A user probably has certain use cases for each combination of columns.

For example, "My Bugs" does not need to have the assignee.

Enhancement suggestions
- allow presets of different columns ("layouts")
- Save the column combinations along with each saved query

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




The specific annoyance comes when trying to prepare a document for printing, I
have to think hard about which columns I can exclude/include in order to get the
page to print without chopping off large amounts of content or displaying
redundant content.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Just so you know, you can add a columnlist= parameter to the query string, to
specifiy your columns specifically. There's just no UI for it.

Comment 2

[Will Budreau]

Specifically, using the format of the cookie as a parameter to buglist.cgi, I
can remporarily change the view of this particular list. This overrides but does
not change the cookie setting.

The format of the string is
columnlist=columnname1%20columnname2%20columnname3...

The column names are the values of the short column names, best grep-ed GUI-side
from the checkbox id values within the colchange.cgi form on colchange.cgi

Tedious workaround.

Comment 3

[Will Budreau]

The workaround in comment 2 no longer works for me - appending &columnlist= with
the value of the COLUMNLIST cookie to my saved search results string does not
appear to have any effect on the rendered page

i.e. &columnlist=bug_severity%20priority%20rep_platform

I thought the url request from "change columns" would be easily bookmarked, but
it redirects immediately to the previous search results, so there's no chance to
grab the url from the location bar.

Comment 4

[Greg Hendricks]

It would be nice to make this part of a saved search. We could have a check box
or something next to the save search entry to optionally save column list info
with the search.

Comment 5

[Peter Jackson]

This appears to be a duplicate of (fixed by the change for) bug 345826, but I am underprivileged to mark it thus :-).

Comment 6

[Andre Klapper]

Not a dup I think because this is about **multiple** settings (and not only Saved searches).