632318 - minChars for autocomplete should be a constant

Status: REOPENED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Dominik Ruf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.86 Safari/534.13
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The new autocomplete feature in bugzilla 4.0 starts when you enter 3 characters.
I think this number should be configurable so I can use smaller numbers then 3 if I have only a few users.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

If you only have a few users, the usemenuforusers parameter would better suit your needs.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I agree with LpSolit there, pretty much. Also, I believe that the number only appears in one place in the templates, so it wouldn't be that hard to edit manually. Thanks for reporting your suggestion, though--please do tell us if you have other ideas.

Comment 3

[Dominik Ruf]

@ Frédéric: Well personally I disagree. I think a autocomplete input box is always better (more user friendly) then a mulitselect but YMMV.

@ Max: I already tried changing the number in the javascript so that ajax requests are made at the first character you enter. But the returning response did not contain any users. Only if the request contained at least 3 characters the response contained users. So changing the behavior yourself is not that trivial. That's why I filed this entry.

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Oh, yes, because Bugzilla::User::match has that hardcoded, right. I suppose we could move this into a constant and then at least it would be editable in one place.

Comment 5

[Dominik Ruf]

That would be great.