335434 - Per-Product enter_bug templates

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I know various users who would like to have per-product enter_bug templates. Certain products could have more or less fields, or certain products could have a special message at the top (like we do on bmo).

Comment 1

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

We need to keep in mind that this does not release us from the need of having product-specific sets of bug fields.

I did this for a customer once. I'll put it up so that we can see which parts of it are useful.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Okay, great. Yeah, I have a client who's contracted me to add this feature, also, and to get it into upstream.

Comment 3

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

Attachment: Patch against 2.20 (use -p1)

This is my old simply-done patch for 2.20. It allows for project logos, too, and doesn't force the project-specific guided template for insidergroup members.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I think the correct architecture here is to use the formats mechanism, and for Bugzilla to look for formats in the following order:

1) The one specified on the "format=" URL parameter, e.g. for format=guided, create-guided.html.tmpl
2) A format named after the product, e.g. create-bugzilla.html.tmpl
3) No format, e.g. create.html.tmpl

This would be a very generic mechanism for having per-product entry pages, bug pages or anything else, without special-case code. The only restriction is that you could no longer invent a generic format, like "guided", which happened to share a name with one of your products.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I think the correct architecture here is to use the formats mechanism

  I think that sounds very reasonable.

Comment 6

[Vitaly Fedrushkov]

Why don't rephrase this bug to:

Store per-product bookmarkable template URLs and display them instead of bare .../enter_bug.cgi?product=xxx links on product selection step, and perhaps in other 'Create another bug' places.

This way administrators will get a chance to add ...&format=yyy, or even fully override default values.

This way ability to 

 - display/suppress fields 
 - require/enforce/set default field values

can be reduced to optional URL syntax variables.