Seeking advice: Further development of custom fields patch

Myk Melez myk at mozilla.org
Tue Aug 23 02:45:32 UTC 2005


Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> I would now like to extend the patch with the abilities to search for 
> a custom field and to choose the custom field as a result column in 
> the search result.
My patch already has the ability to search on a custom field via the 
boolean charts, which includes custom fields in its field list.

> 3.) In buglist.cgi, I would have to invoke DefineColumn() for any
>     custom field. A suitable column ID would be "custom.fieldname",
>     with fieldname being the custom fields column name. A column
>     name would be "bugs.fieldname", because the custom fields are
>     part of the bugs table. Title would be the custom fields
>     description.
This seems reasonable at first glance.

-myk




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