72976 - Textual advanced querying.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I would really like it if on the web interface I could enter advanced queries in
text rather than the current slow and cumbersome system.

We're going to need it for the email interface, so I think it should be fairly
straight forward.

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Setting milestone to 3.0 on the assumption we're allowing advanced querying
through the mail interface.

And in case I wasn't more specific earlier, I want this as a pref.

Maybe there might be a third option as well, make the simple conditions textual
and still keep AND and OR as they are.  This doesn't solve the speed problem,
but it means the three fields won't be so grotty and mismatched.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

The current interface relies on server side changes of the forms. I expect at
least one of the output modules in Bugzilla 3 will spit out JavaScript that
dynamically updates the query form when doing this, thus solving the slowness.

Comment 3

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Taking QA.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The Bugzilla 3 component is going away.  We're going to depend on the Milestones 
for this.  At the time this component was created, we didn't have milestones for 
Bugzilla.

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Bailing on Bugzilla 3.0 due to too many other commitments.

Comment 6

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This isn't actually going to be implemented in Bugzilla 3.0.

Comment 7

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This bug isn't really specific enough to fix. QuickSearch already does lots of stuff, and there are specific bugs to enhance it.