344800 - find a specific bug advanced search link should include any params passed to the page that provided it

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement)

Description

[timeless]

I tried this on a current bugzilla like thing and it still happens. i tried searching for a report and i can't find it. and i'm not happy because i've complained about this since that page became the default.

steps: build your own query url in a browser that has never used bugzilla query (opera9win in my case)
click advanced search

expected results:
since i included product and component tags in the url, the advanced search should inherit them.

this would include other random things like whichever strange quirky property would prefill open/closed/all correctly or the text string.

the text string should go into the first text search field (and eventually that search field shouldn't be bound to summary).

if i choose "all" then the status/resolution fields should be blanked.
for open/closed that should equate to whatever it means on the bugzilla i'm visiting.

Comment 1

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

I'd like to make sure I understand what this is about... We're starting off with a link to query.cgi with some parameters, and because we've never used Bugzilla before or because we used the specific search last time we visited Bugzilla, we end up on the specific search page. Now we switch over to advanced search, and now all finely crafted settings from the query are lost, and we're faced with an advanced search page with no fields pre-filled. Is this what you mean?

Comment 2

[timeless]

precisely.

Comment 3

[Guy Pyrzak]

i couldn't reproduce this in landfill. here is how i did it (might be wrong).

Made an advanced search in landfill on firefox (http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=DeleteMe&component=Cleanup&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED) 

Then used safari to do the same search and then clicked edit search. I got the query i made in the advanced search pane.

If there are any questions about how this should work the answer can be found on: http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html

After doing a search, ANY search clicking "edit search" the only reasonable assumption is that you should edit your search (Consistency and standards) even though a user is getting to the query page in an unexpected way. 

Removing UE keyword. Also, it worked for me on landfill, but i'm not convinced that i did an excellent job testing this so i'll let timeless or someone else confirm that i'm doing it correctly.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced

You have query_format=advanced in the URL, which is why the advanced query page is displayed.