UI change for editing groups and products

[Benton, Kevin]

> Joel Peshkin wrote:
> >
> > I am considering a change to the behvior of editproducts and 
> > editgroups and I would like some input before starting this.
> >
> > 1) If there are more than THRESHOLD (50?) items in the list, show
the 
> > first 50 and a text box similar to the one in editusers to select a 
> > subset by regexp.
> Splitting the result set into multiple pages is problematic because 
> (among other things) you lose the ability to use your browser's 
> find-in-page feature to find a product, but the ability to filter 
> products by name is an unqualified usability win.

If the textbox for doing so was placed at the top of the page such that 
it appeared and was usable before the rest of the page loaded, users 
could use it as soon as the browser displays the first subset of the 
page, providing the benefits of both editusers-like filtering and 
editproducts-like listing.  That seems the best approach to me.
If the list of bugs returned is long, and users don't know they can sort
before the page load is completed, it seems that the best method would
be to put a "sort by" question on the query page.  That way, the sorted
query could also be saved as a search.

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Kevin Benton
Perl/Bugzilla Developer
Advanced Micro Devices
 
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