392066 - Add mail to drop down with recent email addresses

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Tim deBoer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Bugzilla 3.0

I use Eclipse's bugzilla system daily. Love it, save for one annoyance - every time I need to reassign or cc a bug, I have to re-type an email address. As part of an open source team everyone has a different style of name/hostname in their email (e.g. [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], ...), which makes this tedious and error prone to do several times a day.

I've seen bug 251669 and the "usemenuforusers" parameter, but this feature isn't usable in a large bugzilla system with several hundred users.

I've also found bug 372720, asking for the pulldown to include all users who have touched the bug. This would definitely be useful, but I'm often the first person to triage the bug so there wouldn't be anyone else associated with the bug yet.

Therefore, I've got a couple alternate ideas for an enhancement request. If you can do any of these it'd solve my issue, so hopefully one of them sounds cool to you:

1. Provide a dropdown that includes the last few (10?) people that I've assigned/cc'd a bug to, always including myself. This list of people could be saved in a list associated with each user.

2. Include a preference where I can specify a list of emails to use in the dropdown. It's not quite as user friendly, but at least this list could be set once.

3. Provide type-ahead/context completion that filters the pulldown based on characters already typed. e.g. after I type two characters it would show a pulldown with all of the emails registered in bugzilla that start with those two characters.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[timeless]

most of this is bug 338966.

note that your web browser should be remembering things (it remembers things for me). and any sizable installation should use search instead of usemenuforusers, which means you can e.g. type "timeless" and have bugzilla give you a list.

there's also a bug somewhere for ajax cc lists.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Also, you know that you can type in a part of someone's real name in the box and it will find that person (or give you a list to choose from after you submit the bug if there's more than one match), right?

Comment 3

[timeless]

what I mentioned and what mkanat also mentioned was usermatchmode/search (someone could use wildcard to be annoying, but either are better than usemenuforusers).

if between usermatchmode and my bug you see nothing left, please resolve this as a duplicate (and if your system is really using usemenuforusers or really has usermatchmode off, campaign for usermatchmode search)

Comment 4

[Tim deBoer]

Hi guys, thanks for the response.

We're using bugzilla 3.0, and when I try to assign to myself using 'Tim' or 'deboer' it still says 'Bugzilla was unable to make any match at all for one or more...'. I assume this means that the usermatchmode parameter is not set to search? I was unaware of this feature (since it wasn't working for me :) ), so I'll check with the admin.

Comment 5

[Tim deBoer]

Ok, admin confirmed that usermatchmode was off and enabled it. Oddly enough, it works great now. :) Thanks for your help and sorry to open a bug for a feature that was already there. Looking forward to the ajax-ified version. ;-)