Setting up the UI in a particular way.

[Joel Peshkin]

Bryanos, Costa wrote:

>
>Approach two
>Click on "Enter a new bug report". Now click on a Product Area link. On this
>page you can select a specific platform under the Platform pull down menu. I
>would have to make each Platform pull down menu different within each
>Product Area link. I don't know how I would do that. How can I specify a
>different Platform list for each Product Area? 
>
>Is there an easy way to do this that I don't know about? Also, I believe
>that there is a limit of 55 products within Bugzilla. Is this true? If so
>how can I get around this constraint? 
>I'm looking to get this done ASAP. 
>

Costa,

   If you are using access groups for products, you will need to use 
2.17.* which permits an arbitrary (well, 32000 anyway) groups.

   Your categorization issue will require a bit of hacking, but I do 
have a crude patch (against 2.17.1-ish code) that adds a field called 
"Menugroup" to the product.  When a user creates a bug, if they would be 
able to enter bugs into products with more than one distinct menugroup, 
then they are prompted to first select which menugroup.  There are no 
descriptions for the menugroups, but the names themselves can be 
descriptive.  If you start down the 2.17 path and want this, I can dust 
it off and provide it to you.  Since I would have to update it to the 
current tip, please get your other steps out of the way before asking me 
for this.

-Joel