The query page is very confusing. Isn there a simpler way to query?
The interface was simplified by a UI designer for 2.16. Further suggestions for improvement are welcome, but we won’t sacrifice power for simplicity. As of 2.18, there is also a ‘simpler’ search available. At the top of the search page are two links; “Advanced Search” will take you to the familiar full-power/full-complexity search page. The “Find a Specific Bug” link will take you to a much-simplified page where you can pick a product and status (open,closed, or both), then enter words that appear in the bug you want to find. This search will scour the ‘Summary’ and ‘Comment’ fields, and return a list of bugs sorted so that the bugs with the most hits/matches are nearer to the top.
The interface was simplified by a UI designer for 2.16. Further suggestions for improvement are welcome, but we won’t sacrifice power for simplicity. As of 2.18, there is also a ‘simpler’ search available. At the top of the search page are two links; “Advanced Search” will take you to the familiar full-power/full-complexity search page. The “Find a Specific Bug” link will take you to a much-simplified page where you can pick a product and status (open,closed, or both), then enter words that appear in the bug you want to find. This search will scour the ‘Summary’ and ‘Comment’ fields, and return a list of bugs sorted so that the bugs with the most hits/matches are nearer to the top. • Matches in the Summary will ‘trump’ matches in comments, and bugs with summary-matches will be placed higher in the buglist — even if a lower-ranked bug has more matches in the comments section. Bugzilla uses a cookie to remember which version of the page you visited last, and brings that page up when you
