UI module owner

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Mon Jun 26 11:03:04 UTC 2006


Joost de Valk wrote:
> Just a quick note:
> 
>> - Does anyone actually do complicated searches, or are 100% of Bugzilla
>>   searches merely searches on Subject?

Just to be clear: that was a rhetorical question, used to demonstrate
the sort of things we should be asking. I'm 100% sure, even without
doing any research, that not every single search on Bugzilla is merely a
search on Subject, because I do some complex searches myself :-)

> Yes. I know for a fact that on bugzilla.opendarwin.org complicated
> searches are used a LOT. Problem is that searching with dates is not
> intuitive, and that there's no help available in the advanced search
> form to tell you that you need to do "-2w" for the last two weeks, or
> stuff like that.

Ah, now you see, this is a much more specific usability issue, rather
than "it's all hard to use/unintuitive".

Do any of the people find it this problem ever click the "Give me some
help" link at the top of the page? If not, why not - because they didn't
notice it? Because they didn't think it would help?

If they do, did they figure out how the help system worked? Did they get
the info from hovering over the Date boxes? Was it sufficient?

Gerv




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