622849 - needless screens in browse-to for products with only one component

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[vince.skahan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: bugzilla 3.6.3 

The 'browse' functionality forces the user through a no-value screen for the case where a particular product has only 'one' component defined.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a new product
2. define only one component (ie, 'all') for that product
3. enter a ticket for that product
4. use the main menu 'browse' pick, select that product
Actual Results:  
The user is presented with a screen requesting they select a component for that product being browsed.  There is only one component there (ie, the user is forced to click-through a no-value-added screen)

Expected Results:  
User should not have been presented with the 'select a component' screen.  For products with only one component, the component should have been auto-selected and the user should not have been presented with that screen at all.


google groups discussion thread is at http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.bugzilla/browse_thread/thread/d14d393e55321f49#

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

The page which displays components brings some value even with a single component. It displays the description of the component, its default assignee and QA contact. IMO, we shouldn't skip this page.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

  The intermediate page is useful when you are trying to describe components, but not when you are trying to browse. (Unfortunately there isn't currently a way to tell what you are doing, but we could work out some way, possibly.)