Closed Bug 80168 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

[RFE] JavaScript-enhanced keyword field editing

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(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

enhancement
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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 80169

People

(Reporter: myk, Assigned: justdave)

Details

JavaScript can be productively used to make editing of the keyword field easier
and less error-prone (while maintaining backwards compatibility for users
without JavaScript).  Among other solutions, it should be possible to place two
pull-down menus next to the keyword field, one to remove a keyword from the
field and one to add one.

The "remove" menu would list the keywords currently in the field, while the
"add" menu would list all available keywords.  When the user selects a keyword
from the "remove" menu, that keyword would be automatically removed from the
field.  When the user selects a keyword from the "add" menu, that keyword would
be added to the field.  If the user edits the field by hand those changes would
be reflected in the "remove" menu so that the "remove" menu always contains an
exact replica of the contents of the field.

A more complicated set of JavaScript code might:

1. adjust the "add" menu so that it doesn't display keywords already in the
field or allow a keyword to be added twice;
2. validate manual edits to make sure the user didn't type in a keyword that
doesn't exist; and
3. eliminate the "remove" menu (if it isn't worth the screen real estate given
that the user could just delete the keyword from the field with a
click-drag-deleteKey action, although this can be a problem when a field has a
longer string of keywords than it can display at once).

These are icing on the cake, however, and even without these additions this
feature enhancement would significantly reduce the pain some users feel trying
to edit keywords.
I failed to check carefully enough for the existence of this bug report after my
browser crashed on form submit, so I am marking this bug a duplicate of the
second report I filed (bug 80169).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80169 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Assignee: myk → justdave
Component: Bugzilla → Bugzilla-General
Product: Webtools → Bugzilla
Version: Bugzilla 2.13 → unspecified
moving to Bugzilla product
reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE
QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
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