498295 - add a help link right besides the quicksearch feature

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Simon Bünzli]

Finding e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=quicksearchhack.html is currently quite difficult. Why not add a link to it where people actually could see it:

Home | New | Search | [           ][Find] _?_ | Reports | ...

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Seems reasonable to me. :-)

Comment 2

[Kent Rogers [:mrbball]]

How about just a Help button alongside the Find button:

Home | New | Search | [           ][Find][Help] | Reports | ...

Either would be helpful, and both are very simple changes to the
global/common-links.html.tmpl template, but the Help button is less
cryptic.  And, it doesn't seem to be unreasonable in terms of screen
real estate.

Here is the code I added to our Bugzilla installation at line 39 of
global/common-links.html.tmpl (version 3.2.3) to get this button:

  <li class="form">
    <form action="page.cgi" method="get">
    <input type="hidden" name="id" value="quicksearch.html">
    <input class="btn" type="submit" value="Help">
    [%-# Work around FF bug: keep this on one line %]</form></li>

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Fixed by bug 518293.